And you won’t believe the twist!
The surfer-turned-citizen cop Chad Towersey has become
the toast of mainstream American media following a recent
video on his Instagram page that follows the
travails off a gal gone wild in a three-wheeled SUV.
The handsome Costa Mesa-based Towersey aka Unkle Tito, who is
forty-three, snatched the footage of the woman he dubbed “Zanny
Nanny” on the 405 freeway headed north to Irvine as he was driving
to his job as a solar panel salesman.
“I’m seeing this car in front of me with the tailgate open and I
think, that’s kinda weird,” he says. “I start getting up a little
closer, and she’s going eighty miles an hour, and something is off.
Sparks are flying from the side, I look closer and she’s riding on
three wheels!”
Unkle Tito pulled up alongside, starts honking, waving.
The gal “looks over, gives me a blank wave, looked forward and
kept driving like nothing was wrong.”
Tito and another driver use hand signals to conspire to sorta
box her in, to slow her down. It’s effective. Gets her wild
three-wheeled SUV down to thirty miles an hour.
“Finally, she gets off at the same exit I have to get off, goes
around a roundabout and then slams into a guy parked at a red
light.”
Tito tells her to get out of the car.
“She was so incoherent, literally nothing was connecting with
her. She didn’t know what was going on. It was like she was in a
blackout.”
Gal asks, “What’s going on?”
Tito, “You’re driving down the freeway on three wheels with your
tailgate open!”
“She was disconnected from reality,” he says. “She then starts
using this story that she was having a bad day, tells me she’d just
been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I told her, ‘I’m sorry and
I’ll pray for your but you can beat cancer; you can’t beat running
into a bunch of people on the freeway.”
Anyway, Tito takes off and ten gets a call from his wife who
tells him there’s a “hostage situation” in their neighbourhood.
(It’s America! Yes!)
“Some guy had carjacked someone and was holding the family
hostage,” says Tito. “There was SWAT, police, everywhere was taped
off and I’m documenting everything when this guy comes up to me and
says, randomly, ‘Hey, my girlfriend follows your page and saw your
video on the lady on the freeway.’”
And, here’s the twist!
The man, a marine from Camp Pendleton down there at Oceanside,
tells Tito, “I helped her right before you caught up with her. She
was in Costa Mesa and she had crashed into the curb (damaging
tyre). I got out, helped her out, got her car up on a jack, and put
the wheel in the back. And, while I was doing that she jumped into
her car and took off while her car was on the jack!”
The vid has “gone bananas,” says Tito. “CBS, Fox, ABC, I have
five on-camera interviews on the day and the video got circulated
from meme page to viral page to everywhere.”
How much he make from his lil time in the sun?
Zero!
“I gave it to everyone for free.”
(Police are investigating the wild piece of driving.)
