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07-17-2008, 08:16 AM
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|  Police Say Rampage Harmed Woman (minor injuries)
Daily Pilot - Serving Newport Beach & Costa Mesa, California Quote:
Former light heavyweight Ultimate Fighting Championship title-holder Quinton “Rampage” Jackson injured a Huntington Beach woman and may have injured her unborn child when he drove down along the 55 freeway median, authorities and the woman said Wednesday.
Holli Griggs, 38, was driving her 2007 Cadillac Escalade in the left lane on the southbound 55 freeway just south of Bay Street when Jackson’s gray-and-green monster truck sideswiped her as it continued down the freeway at 45 mph, California Highway Patrol officer Jennifer Hink said. The freeway turns into Newport Boulevard just south of there and is typically clogged with traffic at about the time of the accident, 1:30 p.m.
Jackson could face felony charges of a hit and run because Griggs was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, Hink said. In an e-mail sent to the Daily Pilot, Griggs said she and her unborn baby, 16 and a half weeks along, were injured but was not sure to what extent.
Griggs said Jackson was acting “violent and reckless” and “had no regard for my life or anyone else’s for that matter.”
Authorities say Jackson also sideswiped the silver 2003 Mercedes behind Griggs in traffic. That driver was not injured, Hink said.
Minutes after the hit and run, police spotted Jackson’s truck on Newport Boulevard with one flat tire weaving in and out of traffic while Jackson talked on the phone, police said.
When a Costa Mesa traffic officer tried to pull him over unaware of the hit and run back on the freeway, Jackson didn’t stop, struck another car and headed to the Balboa Peninsula, Lt. Paul Dondero said. He was eventually caught and booked on suspicion of evading police, reckless driving and a hit and run.
Officers did not give Jackson a field sobriety test because he did not appear to be under the influence of any alcohol or drugs, Sgt. Bryan Glass said.
Jackson was taken to Costa Mesa jail then transported to county jail, but was deemed medically unfit and sent back, Sgt. Zack Hoferitza said. It’s been widely reported that UFC President Dana White posted Jackson’s $25,000 bail late Tuesday, but UFC officials declined to comment.
“This was pretty shocking. It just seemed out of character for him,” said Karen Santaniello, owner of No Limits Mixed Martial Arts and Fitness gym in Irvine, where Jackson trained early in his career. Jackson was known as a hard worker with a good sense of humor who avoided drugs or heavy drinking, she said. The only thing that seemed to affect him, she said, were losses.
“I think he was harder on himself. It was very difficult to him because he felt like he had let everyone down,” she said.
According to one of Jackson’s sponsor’s websites, Throwdown.com, Throwdown staff members were with Jackson Tuesday morning only hours before his arrest. They said they were meeting his family, checking out his truck and watching with him, for the first time, his upset loss to Forrest Griffin on July 5, costing him the light heavyweight title. In a video interview on the site, Jackson seemed humble about the loss and credited Griffin’s game plan for the win.
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If she is indeed hurt along with her fetus I think it's safe to say Rampage won't be back in the UFC for a long time, if ever.
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07-17-2008, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Bullock  | Id be willing to bet she's ok.....or nothing a little money cant fix. However if she or the baby is really hurt then rampage has some problems ahead. Has anyone heard wtf was up with him?? Thats just crazy...
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07-17-2008, 08:22 AM
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Is it gay to cry over this?
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07-17-2008, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by thecoylewis Is it gay to cry over this? | No....
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07-17-2008, 08:25 AM
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all this is pretty fucked up. hope the lady and the unborn and all others are ok....hope rampage gets some help. it appears that he's in need of some.
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07-17-2008, 08:28 AM
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This is a big impact since hit and run with no injuries is just a misdemeanor, hit and run with an injury becomes a felony.
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07-17-2008, 08:30 AM
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In all seriousness, I'm not going to cry over this but I am DEEPLY saddened by this.
Rampage is my favorite fighter but on the flip side, I just had a daughter born a few months back. Having a baby, looking at her, that shit does something to you. Imagining that something could happen to her will put tears in your eyes.
Anytime you hear of children being hurt by anyone doing stupid ass bullshit, I get upset. When it's my favorite fighter doing that stupid ass bullshit, I don't know how to act.
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07-17-2008, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by scottsec Id be willing to bet she's ok.....or nothing a little money cant fix. However if she or the baby is really hurt then rampage has some problems ahead. Has anyone heard wtf was up with him?? Thats just crazy... | Rep'd! if Rampage wasn't a celebrity, i could see this going another direction. im not here saying this woman was not hurt at all, and i fear for her unborn child, but dude anytime a celebrity somehow harms a regular person the book gets thrown at them. hey sometimes they deserve it, but no one really knows what was up with Rampage yet.
but if all goes as it should go, Rampage and this woman will settle out of court, and she'll get some money.
this whole situation really stinks... 
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07-17-2008, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by scottsec Id be willing to bet she's ok.....or nothing a little money cant fix. | Someone side swiping you @ 45 miles an hour is going to hurt, let alone if they are in a big motherfucking truck.
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07-17-2008, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Bullock FUCK.
If she is indeed hurt along with her fetus I think it's safe to say Rampage won't be back in the UFC for a long time, if ever. | Don't be surprised if he is banned from fighting in the states. If losing causes you to wreak this much havoc, no commision is going to sanction you to fight.. what if Rampage loses another one? Know what I mean?
This is just a bad situation.. what the hell was Quinton thinking? It was completely wreckless. I hope the mother and unborn child are okay.
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