Shot full of holes

tinytim · Sep 30, 2014

Not sure if this was posted. It happened a while ago but I just read about it now.

BALDWIN, Wisc. Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat. Thats how Sidhil Kumar described the sounds that first alerted him that something serious was happening.

Kumar was driving a 2012 Peterbilt east along I-94 in Wisconsin. He had entered the US at the Pembina/Emerson border crossing and had refuelled in St. Cloud, Minn. Friday, Aug. 1 was rapidly drawing to a close, as the clock was just about to come up on midnight. Until that point, the trip from Trappers Transport in Winnipeg had been uneventful. Kumar had done this run beforehauling a 53-ft reefer full of frozen French fries from Manitoba to St. Johns, Mich.so he thought he knew what to expect. He was planning on stopping for the night in either Menomonie (about 40 miles up the road) or Black River Falls, depending on where he could find space, but he didnt get that far...

...I heard something like hammering on my cab. Like somebody was beating on the cab with a hammer. It was several shots. I know about bullets. I have a gun licence. But I never expected this: that somebody was shooting at my truck without any reason...

...I didnt shut down the engine. I just applied my parking brakes and went to the cabin. I saw my (sleeper) cab window was down. It looked like somebody shot itglass everywhere. I realized it was not the safest place to park, so thought lets go someplace else, like some rest area or a truck stop or take another exit. I thought lets go. So I immediately started driving again.

I was picking up my speed. I was in the right lane and another truck driver, an American female truck driver, she put her cab lights on and was waving her hands at me like park, park. She was talking on the radio, You have a fuel leak. I put my back lights on and looked what was happening to my trailer and I saw the fuel going out like a fog because my fuel tanks were full. There were 50 gallons of fuel there in my reefer tanks. I came to realize later these guys shot my fuel tank and made a hole, so fuel was coming out and spreading everywhere, covering the cars behind me.

Including the white car Kumar noticed before all the shooting.

Even though she couldnt be aware of exactly what happened to cause the fuel leak, the woman who flagged Kumar down pulled her rig over, parked it on the side of the road and got out. That gave Kumar the confidence to know the road was safe enough to pull over himself.

She ran at me and asked me what happened. I said I realized I was shot, but I didnt realize the fuel leaked. I gave my phone to her to call the cops: 9-1-1. At the same time, I went to disconnect my tractor and trailer because there was a heavy fuel leak and I didnt want, if it caught fire, to take my truck too....
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http://www.trucknews.com/transportation/shot-full-holes/1003059034

blairandgretchen · Sep 30, 2014

We're getting shot at now ?!!!!!

Vito · Sep 30, 2014

Whoa! Never heard of such a thing! In Wisconsin of all places!

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