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In reply to the discussion: Update on the bikers who terrorized a New York City Family. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I hadn't noticed that the tire was completely gone and didn't understand what your meant by "wheel" since I'm used to people using the word "wheel" to mean either the tire or the combination of the tire and the wheel, and I have that habit as well. So you mean "wheel" in the technical true meaning of the word for the "round metal thing that the round rubber thing filled with air goes around". I don't know, maybe it's a local thing where I live, but the only people I run across that say "wheel" to mean the actual metal wheel and not the tire or the combination of the tire and the wheel is my auto mechanic or anyone that works on or knows so much about the workings of a car that they could be an auto mechanic. I guess that's pretty weird since technically it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and it definitely can be confusing.
I wouldn't have even expected them to have done anything to the passenger side of the car anyway since they seemed to be after only the driver, but it's apparent now that they must have punctured at least that one right tire when they had the SUV surrounded on the highway for it to have completely lost the entire tire off the metal wheel when they finally got the SUV stopped in traffic and dragged him out.
Well, that clears up what happened to the car on the highway when they had him surrounded that couldn't be seen in the video, and it clears up what the driver said happened though the police still don't seem certain of that. Where did you get this photo, and do you know if the police have it? I think you should send it to them in case they don't... you never know, and it can't hurt. It really exonerates what the driver did since they had to have been sabotaging his SUV on the highway. I'm not seeing any other way that the entire tire could have come completely off otherwise by the time that photo was taken.