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01-08-2004, 09:00 PM
Now here is an ironic story.This is from the town My parents live by, and my sons mother lives within view of the bar & church.
WRIGHT TOWNSHIP -- The Rev. Leo Rosloniec was sitting in an easy chair by his Christmas tree, 20 minutes into evening prayers when he heard "a big boom" outside his front door. The priest at the nearby St. Joseph's Catholic Church looked through his window and saw a disabled snowmobile in the front lawn of the rectory -- then saw a man lying motionless on his front porch.
Carl Charles Durham, 34, died Monday night outside the priest's home at 18876 8th Ave. in the village of Wright.
The Coopersville man was driving the snowmobile around 7:20 p.m. "at a very high rate of speed" east on Hickory Street when he ran the stop sign at 8th Avenue, crossing into Rosloniec's front yard, Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Austin said.
The snowmobile took out a mailbox before striking concrete steps that led to the rectory's front porch. Durham was thrown from the sled and crashed through the glass of an outer storm door, then into an inner screen door, collapsing beneath an image of a cross on the front door. He suffered head and neck injuries.
Durham was not wearing a helmet. Police say witnesses reported Durham had been at the Wright Tavern, just across the street from the rectory, earlier that night.
Now the sled he was on was stolen, although the theft was reported while this guy was in jail for third offence drunk driving. So the guy that died could not have stole it.
It is not known if he knew that the sled was stolen but his two "friends" after walking up on the porch and seeing he was dead, fled the seen. So I am sure they knew, and with this guys criminal past I would bet he knew as well.
Sure does make you think, riding on a stolen snowmobile, drunk, and dying by crashing through a priests front door.
The only two things in the village of Wright are the church & bar.
WRIGHT TOWNSHIP -- The Rev. Leo Rosloniec was sitting in an easy chair by his Christmas tree, 20 minutes into evening prayers when he heard "a big boom" outside his front door. The priest at the nearby St. Joseph's Catholic Church looked through his window and saw a disabled snowmobile in the front lawn of the rectory -- then saw a man lying motionless on his front porch.
Carl Charles Durham, 34, died Monday night outside the priest's home at 18876 8th Ave. in the village of Wright.
The Coopersville man was driving the snowmobile around 7:20 p.m. "at a very high rate of speed" east on Hickory Street when he ran the stop sign at 8th Avenue, crossing into Rosloniec's front yard, Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Austin said.
The snowmobile took out a mailbox before striking concrete steps that led to the rectory's front porch. Durham was thrown from the sled and crashed through the glass of an outer storm door, then into an inner screen door, collapsing beneath an image of a cross on the front door. He suffered head and neck injuries.
Durham was not wearing a helmet. Police say witnesses reported Durham had been at the Wright Tavern, just across the street from the rectory, earlier that night.
Now the sled he was on was stolen, although the theft was reported while this guy was in jail for third offence drunk driving. So the guy that died could not have stole it.
It is not known if he knew that the sled was stolen but his two "friends" after walking up on the porch and seeing he was dead, fled the seen. So I am sure they knew, and with this guys criminal past I would bet he knew as well.
Sure does make you think, riding on a stolen snowmobile, drunk, and dying by crashing through a priests front door.
The only two things in the village of Wright are the church & bar.