• 13 Jan 2009 at 12:25 PM

Marcus Schrenker Rides Free! (We Hope He Has A Helmet)

By Equity Private

Marcus Schrenker fled Harpersville, Alabama, on a red motorcycle he kept at a storage unit leased under an assumed name, officials said.
Schrenker told the leasing agent at the storage facility that he would be back for the motorcycle Monday, the U.S. Marshals Office said.
The motorcycle — a 2008 Yamaha street bike with saddlebags — was brought to the storage unit by someone in a brown pickup and trailer, the Marshals Office said.

Missing pilot fled on motorcycle, authorities say [CNN]

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    first

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    Come on, Alabama! You can do it! How many red motorcycles are there around with Illinois plates?
    Roll Tide!

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    this reminds me of a kool ‘n the gang song

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM

    What a dumbass! Yamaha makes the worst streetbikes. If I were planning an escpae a 200mph+ Hayabusa would be my choice.

  5. 5
    Posted by Lowly Assistant | January 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM

    “‘An unmanned aircraft … you cannot maliciously fly it into a residential area without facing consequences,’ Haines told CBS.”
    Insightful.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:45 PM

    @4 Bzzt wrong. Yamaha street bikes are fantastic. Busa’s are for fat morons, darwin award candidates, squids and people who just don’t know any better.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:50 PM

    @6 If you own a Yamaha it is because your wife helped you pick it out. I am sure it has a little pink basket in the front with a *cling cling* bell on the handlebars too.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    Or, you know, you race it at the track.
    Fatty.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    Too Evil; Didn’t Knievel

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    He is being described by CNBC as: “on the lam”.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    He better have a helmet – those “No Helmet” fines can be pretty steep in Alabama and he could find himself in serious trouble!

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    should have used a KTM or 800GS much better for offroad work

  13. 13
    Posted by Lowly Assistant | January 13, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    haha, 9 is great.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:00 PM

    Alamaba APB: Look for a guy on a motorcycle with all of his teeth.
    A short your bro mug says he is heading west to Texas on his way to Mexico.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    He’s wearing a t-shirt that reads…
    “Ass, gas or grass. No free rides.”
    -BBF

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    So what’s the over/under on his capture? I’m thinking 6 hours.

  17. 17
    Posted by merkin capital partners | January 13, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    “Jerry, Marcus got arrested.”
    Jerry: “What?”
    Kramer: “Yeah, he went down at the Beakman. He tried to lam, but they cheesed him!”
    Seinfeld: “Oh, now I see.”

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    Clearly the wideclops is his accomplice.

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    Reports are saying he still has his parachute attached. That HAS to slow him down a bit – no? Tip to Alabama Police – Look for guy on motorcycle who resembles the Space Shuttle landing.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    @19 LMFAO

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    @14: You win!!
    Harpersville, Ala. Police Chief David Latimer says there’s no reason to believe 38-year-old Marcus Schrenker is still in Alabama.
    Latimer says he doesn’t believe that Schrenker is in the United States anymore. Investigators discovered that Schrenker stashed a red motorcycle at a storage unit, and now, the bike is gone and his clothes were left behind in a storage bin.

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    5 Large on suicide.

  23. 23
    Posted by Equity Private | January 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    “Posted by guest, Jan 13, 2009 1:12PM
    5 Large on suicide.”
    No no no. 5 large on Mexican Death Certificate and “suspicious circumstances.”

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    @19 – Winner!

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    @23
    So he’s gonna pull a George Bluth Sr.

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:28 PM

    His cute little blond must be stressed out. I would so eat her ass right now.
    SPODE

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    Huntsville AL is about 17 hours from Mexico. Who wants to take bets on which city he’ll be caught in. Guadalajara?

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    Oops. I meant Harpersville

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM

    @27- White going down to Mexico is a white guy with a death wish. What city will they find his body?

  30. 30
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM

    I just hope that at some point Mr. Schrenker gets a chance to look back and realize how hilarious this whole incident was. Straight out of a cartoon.

  31. 31
    Posted by merkin capital partners | January 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    @29…he better be careful.. last time i was on the riveria maya it was crazy…if i didn’t watch myself i could have poisoned myself with alcohol.

  32. 32
    Posted by NAS Keflavik boi | January 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    I would LOVE to be “on the run” with wideclops:
    1. She’s hot in that kinda cheezy, late 1980′s staten island kind of way;
    2. I’m sure she would have NO problem hiding out in cheap motels; and
    3. Her peripheral vision is probably awesome — that’s an essential trait for an accomplice/lookout

  33. 33
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    @9 AWESOME lol

  34. 34
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    9 + 19= Best comment thread in a while

  35. 35
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    Saddlebags? So he is now with a local AL chick – figures

  36. 36
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 3:34 PM

    Wasn’t Bess previously talking some smack about Schrencker’s apparent lack of planning? Dude has danced circles around (inept southern) law enforcement in at least 3 states while sneaking out the back door to Mexico on a bike. Genius. Somewhere, Ken Lay is nodding in approval.

  37. 37
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM

    @36, that was EP.

  38. 38
    Posted by Equity Private | January 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    He has been damn lucky, that’s for sure. But law enforcement has been just hours behind him, and is looking in the right places. They should have been looking in the Gulf for a body, not looking in Mexico for a live gringo.
    Plus, now the FBI and U.S. Marshals service is involved. Tommy Lee Jones doesn’t fuck around, you know.

  39. 39
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    36 here -
    Apologies to Bess.

  40. 40
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    9 and 19 here – Gracias! That was my goal in life and now I can die peacefully!

  41. 41
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM

    Do we know when he left the storage place in Alabama? Assuming he hasn’t made any extended stops along the way, he wouldve crossed the border by now, right? If he can get through Nuevo Laredo without getting shot up by the narcos, he’s home free.

  42. 42
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM

    According to the news, he arrived at the hotel shortly before 3am, and then fled before he even entered the room. Childersburg is about 3 miles from Harpersville, so assuming he walked through the woods over flat terrain, that would be about another hour and a half or so before he reached the storage unit. Unless he hitched, but that’s doubtful in a small town at that time of night. So lets say 5am Monday morning he rode off. 36 hours so far. BTW, I know the Schrenkers and I must say this has been quite the amusing spectacle here in Indy.

  43. 43
    Posted by guest | January 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    According to the news, Schrenker tried to fake his death by secretly parachuting out of his single-engine plane, to a location near the Alabama storage place.
    Has anybody noticed that this is oddly similar to The Simpsons’ “Bart the Fink” episode, where Krusty the Clown also tries to fake his death by jumping out of his plane, “I’m-on-a-rolla-Gay”, to avoid his troubles with the IRS.
    Maybe Schrenker is a big Simpsons fan…

  44. 44
    Posted by guest | January 14, 2009 at 9:27 AM

    This just in – Alabama Police reportedly pulled Schrenker over on his bioke at 5:20pm yesterday after spotting the flapping parachute off the back of the bike. Officer Joe “Big Bubba” Cowtrain questioned Schrenker who gave them the alias “Captain Armstrong”. Shrenker stated he was the pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia Mission rushing back to Cape Canaveral after some in-flight technical issues – i.e., “premature chute deployment”. Schrenker was released and received a police escort to the Florida border. Officer Cowtrain sticks to his decision to release Shrenker but admits he may have been influenced by his love for his favorite show “Lost in Space”.

  45. 45
    Posted by guest | January 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    How come when one person fakes his own death it gets national attention? When the government fakes the death of over one hundred people (ValuJet 592) The media doesn’t see the obvious. Just as in this single incident, there was no body so the po0lice and investigators got suspicious. When no bodies were recovered at the site of ValuJet flight 592, no one got suspicious. For more information on ValuJet, go to my site @ http://www.angelfire.com/ut/2f/.

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