well... i was listening to the radio this morning... and all of a sudden the news was telling tales of this high speed chase down the shore... then they said the name of the girl...
seriously, it's the WACKIEST chase story i have heard in a while
it makes me proud to have graduated from wall high school the same year with this one and then spent one year of college (at uarts, before she had a breakdown and left freshman year) with her... not to mention rooming with her at rutger's field hockey camp... she always was able to do the warm-up stretches pretty easily... now i know why
i hope to god that FOX pays a ton of money to get that videotape... highest ratings yet, i'll bet
bad girl, bad girl, whatchagonnado... whatchagonnado when they come for you?
looks like she gained weight though... 130 pounds... sheesh! she's really let her 102 pound self go since h.s.!!!!
-- gosh, if people from my school aren't publishing their own books on line, they're causing wacky high speed chases --
Stolen cruiser crashes after 60-mile chase; Charges mount
Published in the Asbury Park Press 1/21/03
By TOM TRONCONE
STAFF WRITER
BELMAR -- A woman who stole a patrol car and led police on a 60-mile, high-speed pursuit Sunday night won her temporary freedom by squeezing her double-jointed body through a small opening in the car's plastic glass divider, authorities said yesterday.
Police yesterday described the woman, Jennifer A. Lach, 33, of Wall, as a drunken and out-of-control manic-depressive who left the scene of an accident, fought with a pedestrian at a gas station, attacked an officer, stole a South Belmar police car and sped down the Garden State Parkway with lights flashing and sirens wailing while cursing at police on their own radio.
The chase -- which had started in Belmar -- ended more than an hour after it began when Lach crashed the Ford Crown Victoria into a car and some trees on the campus of a South Jersey college.
"It was surreal to me," said Christopher Lynch, a Belmar officer involved in the chase.
Police were astonished at how the 5-foot-3, 130-pound Lach managed to move her cuffed hands from behind her back to the front of her body and squeeze through the small window in the Plexiglas -- measuring about 1 foot by 1 1/2 feet -- that divides the vehicle's front and back seats. It turns out, according to Lynch, the woman is double-jointed, meaning she is extremely flexible.
"To get through that, I'm sure she had to struggle," said Belmar Detective Sgt. Andrew Huisman.
The first crash
The incident reportedly started on Sunday shortly before 9 p.m. when Lach showed up at a house on 11th Avenue in Belmar but was asked to leave. Police gave no details about that incident.
As she was driving away from the house, she hit a parked car and drove through a fence, said Huisman.
Lach drove on in her 1992 Nissan Stanza -- now damaged and smoking from the accident -- stopping at a service station on the corner of Main Street and 16th Avenue, on the Belmar-South Belmar boundary, Huisman said.
At the station, she became embroiled in an altercation with someone who inquired about what had happened to her car, he said.
Meanwhile, Rolando Ensuar, a South Belmar officer on routine patrol, spotted the altercation and stopped.
"(Lach) just flipped out and punched him in the chest," Lynch said.
After a brief struggle, Lynch said, Ensuar cuffed Lach's hands behind her back and placed her in the rear seat of his car. Lynch pulled up, and Ensuar went over to explain the situation.
Moments later, Lynch said, the car began to speed away, with Lach nearly running down Ensuar before she fled. The two men then jumped in Lynch's car and followed.
They contacted her a few times by radio, but she would not reply to them other than cursing and name-calling, Lynch said.
"I'm asking her to please pull over before someone gets hurt. . . . I was scared for other drivers getting hurt," he said. "But she just said, 'Stick it up your
