Rollerblader moving in wrong direction near Thunderbird road, Phoenix AZ
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According to the dispatch call, troopers and Ranger units tracked a rollerblader who was skateblading in the wrong direction in the northbound lanes near Thunderbird Road in Phoenix. The individual moved between the median and the traffic lanes while carrying a bag or backpack, and was eventually contacted in the gore area near the off-ramp.
Audio|Heard on: Arizona DPS - Highway Patrol Metro Phoenix West
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07:5
Transcript:
00:00
I found a rollerblader.
00:01
He is going to be southbound, off-left,
00:05
going northbound, coming up on Thunderbird.
00:10
For a copy, he's going southbound off left, but in the northbound lane, coming up to Thunderbird.
00:17
22[1]nd2.
00:19
That he's going northbound, that he's on the southbound side.
00:23
Tempore, I copy the southbound side going north-south.
00:26
22[1]-52.
00:33
146, I can copy.
00:34
I'm turning into hollow.
00:37
24-22[1]-51. 24-2-51.
00:42
And Ranger we do have them inside.
00:44
He is rollerblading north down, coming up to the Thunderbird.
00:50
Support 22[1]-51.
00:56
But he's in the median between the same-man wall and the median wall and the U-2V lane, probably a couple hundred yards south of Thunderbird.
01:14
242.
01:15
The Ranger is going over the top of Thunderbird right now.
01:24
Continue at Northbound town.
01:26
The property is going over a Thunderbird at 22[1]52.
01:28
Okay.
01:31
Okay.
01:37
Hey Ranger, he's north of Sunderberg right now.
01:39
Still continue at northbound.
01:43
Northbound. Just mark up he's north of Thunderbird continuing northbound at 20253.
01:51
Thanks, Andrew.
01:52
He's northbound and southbound, correct?
01:56
Correct. Correct.
02:03
HVTOC to Ranger, what's that he carrying is? Is it looking like a backpack or something more solid?
02:09
Major, he does have a, uh, looks like a backpack or something in his hands.
02:12
I can't make out what it is.
02:21
Max, me, the call him getting on from the Oregon North Final.
02:27
24-22[1]-2-4.
02:34
They still just casually continue north of the same-bound lane just to be on the median side of the H-OV.
02:46
I'll be still continuing north down on the median side of the H-OV, 22[1]55.
02:56
1961-9V made it's just on the burger yet I didn't copy that.
03:03
He's going to be just north of Thunderbird.
03:07
He's going to be adjacent to the T-bird off-ram.
03:13
There's one we're off and turn around a bill.
03:17
22[1]55.
03:18
My face is all right, Sam.
03:26
I'm trying to turn around.
03:28
September.
03:36
Adrian QC kind of ducked under the wall level there when the trooper went by.
03:46
24, 22[1]56. Hey, Randy, you're definitely doing something in a bag with some sort of his hands.
03:52
Copy is turning something in his hands, and at 2026.
04:00
And he's now turning and going away from the trooper, going southbound, still in the same lane.
04:10
In the same lane, 22[1]57.
04:14
I'm going on until your traffic.
04:22
He's slowly just riding into traffic now.
04:26
We're slowly riding into traffic.
04:30
He's now on the right virtually northbound from the trooper.
04:39
Ranger Uralo covered, he's off right now.
04:41
He's in the Gore area.
04:43
He left from the trooper.
04:45
He's now in the northbound Gore area.
04:49
Copy he's in the northbound Gore area.
04:51
He just crossed the off ramp.
04:53
He's in the middle of the lane of the off ramp.
04:56
The coffee's in the middle lane.
04:57
I'll get this full drop.
04:59
It's super-making contact now.
05:04
Certainly, everybody's in the core area.
05:12
Apparently everybody's in the GOR area.
05:36
The phone of the water.
05:38
The phone of the water.
05:51
This one.
06:07
Anything take forward?
06:12
So,
06:17
40 can release, no.
06:19
19661, copy your code for a unit to resume traffic.
06:28
The ranger of those troopers want him and we have his actions on video.
06:32
They'll be in evidence under those in CR.
06:35
Two-four. 2300.
06:45
I had that 327.
06:48
Hi to 327. Hi to 327.
06:49
C.
06:52
She'll be 7-7 and not 42-2.
06:53
Have a good night?
06:55
I'm gonna edit 2,300.
07:01
Andrew will be clear your counsel.
07:04
Ranger, thank you, at 2,300.
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W Thunderbird Rd, Phoenix, AZ
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