Shakopee Valley News - Road-rage victim shifts focus to recovery - Comments

I won't rant any more than I

chefemby — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:41:40 -0500

I won't rant any more than I did in response to Shannon's article on 3/7 adding more facts to the story, but I'm glad that I'm not the only one who feels this way. kidjon - you hit the nail on the head.

Sounds like a wack job. She

kidjon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:39:13 -0600

Sounds like a wack job. She first drives like an idiot. Then, she is confronted by someone about her idiotic driving. Then, in a complete example if idiotic behavior, she exits her car to continue the arguement with the person who is ponting out her idiotic drivng. Then, she fabricates the story to the police and the media trying to put the blame on the other driver. If I was the other driver, and this nut job put my family's life in jeopardy, I would have pushed her into the ditch full of water and made her bob for toads. I feel sorry for her kids for having a nut job for a mother. She need help of some kind and she is a crappy driver.

Why not a charge of lying to

Justmeagain — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:27:00 -0600

Why not a charge of lying to a police investigator or falsifying a police report?

Go out to the Tribune's article under the Road Guy's blog, she is definently going up "in smoke" there. They are frying her.

I love the title of this article Road Rage Victim Shifts Focus to Recovery. She's not a Road Rage Victim; her credibility flew out the door when she admitted her untruths.

Holy smoke screen!!!! Im on

PAT T LAND — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:06:26 -0600

Holy smoke screen!!!! Im on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this plays out. the video in itself smells worse than a friday nite fish fry. and she only faces minor traffic charges?.......This is some kind of story

And the story changes even

Justmeagain — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:39:03 -0600

And the story changes even further at www.startribune.com. I said before something wasn't quite right with the story.

Woman's road rage story takes a U-turn
The Prior Lake woman admits she wasn't thrown onto Hwy. 169 by the man in the road rage incident last week, nor did he smash her cell phone.

By JIM ADAMS, Star Tribune

March 7, 2008 - 1:19 PM

A Prior Lake woman who said an enraged driver threw her onto Hwy. 169 near Shakopee last week has changed her story after police confronted her with conflicting statements from other witnesses.

Now Jennifer Boulden, 34, admits she wasn't thrown by the man, nor did he smash her cell phone, which she was using before the incident, said Capt. Greg Muelken of the Scott County sheriff's office. He said he's not sure the woman intentionally meant to mislead police and reporters in her initial statements, citing that she was shook up by the incident and on heavy pain medication when deputies first talked to her. But when she was reinterviewed this week, she gave a notably different account:

Boulden was talking on her cell phone when she made a U-turn on Hwy. 169 near the Mobile Manor Trailer Park. She pulled into the passing lane in front of a man driving a pickup truck. He locked up his brakes and swerved into the grassy median to avoid a collision on the four-lane highway. He drove back into the lane behind her.

Boulden pulled over to the outside shoulder and the dark-colored, full-size pickup with a topper parked behind her. The pickup driver walked up to Boulden, who rolled down her window. He yelled at her for her poor driving and using a cell phone, then returned to his truck, where a woman and two children waited.

Boulden walked back to his pickup and argued with him. The man wanted to leave, but she tried to keep him from shutting his driver's door. He pushed her down. Her cell phone fell and broke. He drove away.

Muelken said it is not clear, but it appears Boulden crawled off the highway behind her vehicle. A passerby stopped and picked her up and put her in her car at about 5:30 p.m.

"I think this is more accurate to what occurred," Muelken said.

Boulden could not be reached for comment today.

She was hospitalized about three days after the incident and said from her hospital bed last week that she had stopped to apologize for making a U-turn in front of the pickup. She said that when the man kept swearing at her she tried to call 911 but he grabbed her cell phone and smashed it on the highway. Then he picked her up and threw her on the road, she said.

Witnesses had no consistent description of the pickup driver, who has never been found. Deputies would still like to hear his version of events, Muelken said. Based on Boulden's new account, it now appears he did nothing illegal, Muelken said. He said the man's statement could support possible traffic charges against Boulden for failing to yield and inattentive driving.

Jim Adams •

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Is she now going on all the local TV news programs and admit this? Where's the outrage now?

Road-rage victim shifts focus to recovery

shawn Hogendorf — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:38:59 -0600

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent

It was a case of senseless violence, but then again, violence never makes sense for victims.