Word: truck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, care was increasingly warranted. By week's end there had been more than 1,000 incidents of violence. Trucks were hit by gunfire and damaged by brickbats and fire bombs; some had their tires slashed or were set afire. Although Capps was the only fatality, more than 50 others were injured, several seriously. Trucker Howard Abrams, 45, was shot in the chest while unloading his rig in Utah. A trucker in Michigan was wounded in the face by windshield glass when a shotgun blast hit his truck. And Melissa Sarsfield, 14, suffered a fractured skull when a brick...
...averting a major tragedy. One driver in Tampa, Fla., roused by fellow truckers, awoke in his cab's sleeping compartment to find his trailer engulfed in flames. To protect themselves, many truckers traveled only by day, and then only in convoys. At night, drivers jammed rigs into crowded truck-stop parking lots platooned with police and extra security guards to fend off vandals. Some operators bypassed truck stops altogether, however, to avoid intimidation by protesters. "I'm staying away from trouble," said a Fogarty Van Lines driver near Joliet...
...shots into his rig on I-55 near Crystal Springs, Miss. Three shots hit the driver's door, but Wells escaped unharmed. Out of fear, as much as sympathy for the strike, some truckers held a serf-proclaimed moratorium on work. Said a Texas trucker at the Crossroads Truck Stop in Gary, Ind.: "A lot of guys have given up for a few days, gone home and parked their rigs in the driveway hoping this nasty stuff will blow over." But for many, there was no choice. "Hell, I can't lay up," said Trucker Wayne Renn...
Late one night in a suburban Denver parking lot, Stacey Johnson, then 19, was about to get into her car when Gary Tucker, 28, approached, saying that his pickup truck would not start. For two hours Johnson drove him around in search of jumper cables. When they returned to the lot, Tucker, without warning, stabbed Johnson seven times, inflicting wounds that hospitalized her for a month. Tucker was eventually sentenced to eight years for attempted murder, but Johnson wanted more. She filed a civil suit against him for $6 million in damages. Six jurors concluded that even this...
Burke remembers learning to skate in "a truck yard behind the house--a guy used to flood the garden and let it freeze." From the sound of it, he's barely stopped skating since, playing in the Pee Wee leagues for South Boston when he was seven or eight. "We played kids 10 or 11 or 12 years of age--we beat 'em. too," he says...