A Top-Secret Ring Of Drivers Made A (Very) Small Fortune … By Being Hit By Trucks
What would you do to make $100,000? If you said, “put a little Sade on the radio, roll my windows down to feel the breeze and then gun my Daewoo Nubira directly into the path of a moving cement truck,” then boy do we have some good news for you. Apparently, that was an extremely viable career option, at least if you happened to live in New Orleans between 2015 and 2018. The authorities down there recently uncovered a major organized crime ring, accused of earning millions of dollars by intentionally staging literally hundreds of crashes with unsuspecting big rig drivers. It was kind of like the first Fast & the Furious movie, if Dom hadn’t been chasing down trucks to steal VCRs, but to drive his Honda directly into the back of them.
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The plan was apparently masterminded by some shady personal injury lawyers, who realized that ambulance chasing was a lot easier if you just pushed your client in front of one. The lawyers recruited a network of “spotters,” who identified targets, and “slammers,” who actually carried out the crashes. For example, a slammer named Cornelius Garrison is believed to have crashed into more than 50 tractor-trailers in the New Orleans area. Garrison would then sneak into a getaway car driven by a spotter, while a third guy jumped out and claimed to have been driving during the crash. Which is very disappointing for those of us hoping that the same guy sued in more than 50 accidents, claiming to be the victim of a weird trucker vendetta.
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