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Man Jumped On Wine Truck And Unscrewed Valve To Drink Straight FromTanker, Highway Patrol Says
By Alberto Luperon
Few things in life are better than wine. Magnifique! Just try to use a glass instead of drinking from the bottle or the tanker.
Video captures a shirtless, shoe- less man in California jumping onto a wine truck, and climbing under. California Highway Patrol says that the indi- vidual unscrewed a valve, and tried to drink the bever- age spilling
out, according to CBS Sacramento. The company said they lost about 1,000 gal-
lons on the wine–about 5000 bottles worth–on Highway 99 because of this incident.
The incident was
captured on tape on the Cherokee Freight Lines tanker. Authorities said that the wine enthusiast
as Gabriel Moreno.
“This individual was able to release the wine from under the tanker, and he placed himself underneath the
tanker in such a manner, the best way to describe this was some- body doing like snow angels,” Modesto CHP officer Tom
Olsen said. He said that among thousands of calls that he’s heard, this is in the top 10.
Dashcam video from the tanker previously showed the sus- pect in his own vehicle, putting on his hazard lights and getting the truck driver to pull over. But the sus- pect stepped out of his vehicle and went to the side of the truck.
Moreno was arrested by the CHP. He could not be immediate- ly reached for comment.
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