More often than not, it's always Florida....

Obviously you have never been desperately poor. My guess is there was no money for gas, the cell phone got turned off or they couldn't buy minutes. Honestly, except for running the red lights and saying he was going to use a gun he probably did the best he could.

The article said he had tried to drive when they ran out of gas they got a ride, then they walked until the young woman started to bleed and he tried flagging people down and they wouldn't stop so he did the only thing he felt he had power to do in this situation. Honestly, I might have done the same thing....except I wouldn't have run red lights. I wouldn't have wanted the cops to catch me either. They are vicious with poor pregnant women ( google it, you will see them throwing them down on their pregnant bellies) THis guy should be a stock broker on wall street. Also, when you are in a situation where you may loose a child, there is nothing that will make you more insane. I hope you personally never have to live through that. At least this man was trying to protect what is really important, its not like he was robbing a grocery store. . He should be punished but if this is his first offense then I think they should go easy on him.

I think it is a sign of the economy too. Lower middle class people cannot afford $4/gal gas let alone the working poor. People are getting desperate, I don't know where you live but there are NO JOBS at all where I am. I was teaching and I was laid off with about 600 other public school employees ( since i was the newest) I have a friend that is a lawyer at a top firm and he and about 20 other lawyer were just laid off. My girlfriends husbands hours and pay were just cut and he is a doctor--he makes $63,000 a year now she confided. I know the news says everything is getting better but I think it is getting worse. I think if we get a lot of snow this year and natural gas prices go up our economy is going to sink.

Right, Kallie. That's quite a list of excuses you've managed.

As Caitlin Locke said from the first, "That's why they have 911".

I think you people (except Kallie bless her heart) have a hell of a nerve assuming there were drugs involved... cause what I got from this is in a world where reading about abused and murdered children every damn day this man was so worried about his unborn child that he resorted to car jacking to save the lives of his baby and his child !! Cause nobody gave a damn enough to stop and help... cause people in this world no longer care for anyone other than themselves.

this is what happens when the only help people want to give is to tell you: "life is unfair"

well this is what you get and this how we all made it.

Do you have any idea what an ambulance ride costs when you don't have insurance?....or even when you do?.... I'd jack somebodies car too. When my wife was pregnant I wouldn't have hesitated to do what was necessary to take care of her and the baby...so if was stuck alone on a road with no phone and nobody willing to stop or help I would have done the same thing. I'd be willing to do a lot worse.

Unfortunately, we are all just apes. Men naturally become more aggressive when their wives are pregnant. If you say different you're a liar.

I have to agree with Randy and Kally. This dad-to-be just went all Papa Bear and did what he had to do. He was desperate and felt he had to do anything to save his girlfriend and baby. Most dads would do something similar if that was their only option. Most moms would too. We all know how Mamma Bears are.

The guy obviously made several poor decisions. This guy's criminal history needs to be looked at to help determine what type of punishment he should suffer. At least it seems his reasons for committing several crimes was for a good cause. He wasn't just jacking a car to take it to a chop shop and make a few bucks. To me it seems this guy panicked and made some bad choices. If that is what it turns out to be, I hope the legal system goes easy on him. He deserves to be punished, but he may not be a bad person.

I can say I would have no problems breaking several laws if I thought my pregnant wife and unborn child were in danger of loosing their lives.

Kallie, - Lame attempt to make them victims. Did you stop to remember that you don't actually need "minutes" to call 911 from a cell-phone? I'll give them the benefit of doubt that he lost his head out of concern for her but to blame this on the plight of the poor is just lame.Who said they are poor? - they had a car (not proof either way but not indicative of complete destitution).

It is possible to run out of gas from bad planning, it doesn't necessarily mean you didn't have the money for gas.

I can say with 100% certainty that if my sons life were at stake I'd do whatever it takes to save him. I can seriously see my husband doing this when I was pregnant. He's normally a pretty mellow guy, but when I was pregnant he was very high strung. This is a sign of the times unfortunately. At least he was breaking the law for a good reason. Though kicking the driver out and running the light was a bit excessive.... honestly if he hadn't done that he probably wouldn't have been in trouble.

And Drew - how heartless can you be? So what poor people should just die in the street instead of going to the hospital? Oh but God forbid these people get abortions or use birth control either... Married couples who have fallen on hard times should just abstain right? SMH.

So what do you think we should do Drew? Euthanize them?...rid them from being a burden on the system? You got a better plan? Damage is done. Stop teaching abstinence and cutting out the free condoms at the health department and this @!$%# might stop. Oh, right those are against the Lord's teachings and are a drain on the system. That's why I've always said the conservative view is the most shortsighted....they never see the big picture.

DREW@HOOD.MIL your attitude is what is wrong with our nation in 1st place and why this man did this in the 1st place. because no matter how right you are, telling people to just deal with it, some times leads to dealing with things in a manner that hurts us all, but it is the masses at large that drew 1st blood with their indifference. indifference and coldness toward the less stressful does not make for good things. we should not be hoping for mass death. the death of the poor is no more a choice as killing all the Jew was.

From another article:

Prior to the carjacking, authorities note, the couple had walked past a fire station, where they did not ask for help. Additionally, neither had attempted to call for help on the two working cell phones they were carrying.

Boudreaux is charged with armed carjacking, fleeing or eluding and driving with a suspended license. Volusia County Corrections records show that this is the 19th time he has been booked into the jail since 2002.

Just a thug.

He could have called 911, and been on the hook for thousands in ambulance costs!

Even Mitt Romney's dad was on welfare. So give it a rest, Drew.

Randy,

"Do you have any idea what an ambulance ride costs when you don't have insurance?...."

I had to take an ambulance to the hospital once because I was in no shape to drive (severe abdominal cramps). The ambulance cost me $280.00, and the hospital was only 1 mile away. That was back in 1985. I shudder to think how much it might cost today. I would have been better of just calling a taxi.

OK, so we should let the guy off the hook? He stole a car, assulted the driver, risked numerous lives including his girlfriend's and his baby's. Now he is going to do time in jail. All this is better than paying for an ambulance? What a set of upside down values we have in this country. Life is hard for EVERYONE at different points in time. Deal with your responsibilities and stop whining about everything!

Randy-2190191, Do you have any idea what an ambulance ride costs when you don't have insurance?....

Randy do you know condoms are relative cheap when compared to medical bills for childbirth and raising a child to age 18? Can't afford a child? Don't have any!!!!

Although crude.... Drew makes an excellent point.

Xina, yes the best choice for people who can't afford a baby is to not have one.... Even before you have a child your best interest should be for that future child and not being able to financially manage yourself should be an immediate indication that they should not have had a kid. That is pretty sound reasoning in my eyes.

Aml1313 believe it or not, your attitude may very well be the reason america is so in debt at the moment. Even though they can't afford a kid, you believe that somewhere, somehow others are going to help pay for this childs financial needs.

If these people are not financially burderened and as stated a couple different times, managed to walk by a firehall and both had working cell phones.... Then I believe these people are not competent enough to raise a child and should not have one.

Hummmmmmmmmmmmm ~~~~" the best choice for people who can't afford a baby is to not have one." I agree ... BUT human body functions (sex) doesn't. You think these people planed this child? When monkeys fly ....

Regardless of religion, laws or disease .... people keep on doing it .... Soooooooooo it's not about choosing to have the baby ... Because they are poor.... doesn't stop those natural God given inclinations.

"Desperate people do desperate acts" ... this is a perfect example of it ....

Was it wrong? Of Course! .................................... If I was the judge on the case ... I'd sentence him to a five years probation ...( based on no previous serious criminal acts) and make sure he would be there as a father ... no need to make the child suffer for the deed of the parent ...

Remember ... it cost over $35,000 a year to incarcerate this man ... and add in the additional cost for maintaining his child .... without his support ..

@ Kallie, Randy, WinWin:

If you are poor . . . you don't get pregnant or get someone pregnant. This a-hole endangered and threatened other people's lives. He needs to pay for his carjacking crime.

Xina, yes the best choice for people who can't afford a baby is to not have one.... Even before you have a child your best interest should be for that future child and not being able to financially manage yourself should be an immediate indication that they should not have had a kid. That is pretty sound reasoning in my eyes.

Based on many of the posts here maybe we should institute a minimum income requirement before you're allowed to get pregnant. That way only the "right" people would be allowed to breed. If you don't meet the minimum then you're required to have an abortion.

Oh, wait...

Re: Kallie (above); you sound like an idiot of epic proportions. The economy? Really? Did you not read the part where their friend gave them a ride? Why didn't the friend drive them to the hospital? They had ZERO dollars left? So how is having a child going to help their "alleged" financial bind? Oh wait, I know, they WERE well off, but have lost it all in the last 8 months...so much so that they had nothing left.

Let's start a website where we can contribute to these "victims".

Because we all know that we are all just one lost job away from carjacking someone and trying to outrun the police.

Now THAT'S sarcasm.

@ Severed Head:

Based on many of the posts here maybe we should institute a minimum income requirement before you're allowed to get pregnant.

That would be a good start! There's all sorts of requirements people should meet, at least at the time of having the kid. A lot of us are getting sick and tired of idiots, losers, drug addicts, abusers, people who can't financially take care of themselves, much less a kid - bringing these babies into the world that we have to support! Having a kid should be a privilege, not a right. And if it's a right, you better damn well be willing and able to take care of and responsibility for it!!

As they aren't even married (no kidding) these desperately poor people would do best by this child by giving it up for adoption to a family that can care for it properly. But I suppose they are looking forward to that welfare and the other freebies they can get for their irresponsible behavior!

Annie-322924....too bad we are not as in control and have money to burn or good health insurance like you....what a stupid statement.

@ Kallie,

Does asking someone to call 911 seem to difficult for you?

Kallie,

Either you are a troll or just not that smart. 911 can dispatch someone to help you with your Gas issues. They didn't ever need to leave their car.

so are the people who are saying this dude should not have a kid, pro-choice?????????

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this guy's IQ can't be above 100.

Additionally, I don't know what they looked like walking down the road but what does that say about society that a man and a pregnant woman can't get a single person to stop and give them a ride? It's my opinion that every person who passed them in need and did nothing contributed to the situation getting out of control.

Plus one for creativity

-2 for idiocy.

Youre a phony, Holden Caulfield. A great, big phony.

if romney were elected i wouldnt have a job any longer and so i wouldnt be able to afford to buy gas.

Except he had an expired license...

Idiot.

Gas prices were higher when GW was president. And Romney is no different.

Actually, gas prices under GWB were only higher than they are now for a couple of months (June & July 2008). The other 94 months they were lower. When Obama came into office, gas prices were under $1.86. They've more than doubled since. See gasbuddy.com if you want hard data.

Does the President magically control the price of gas? No, he does not. Greedy gas companies and wall street speculators control the price of gas....know your enemy. Fools.

Running out of gas in their fault, not Obama's. And keep politics out of this, please, it is totally irrelevant.

To all people who replied to this post: Your sarcasm detectors are horribly malfunctioning.

3ric

Just think if Obama had implemented his job creating tax reform rather than extend the Bush tax cuts to the rich, this guy might have had a job and then this would have never happen.

Well that's what, the poor judgment and bad decision making of, Obama is doing to people? Making them crazy to the point of the above behavior.

I think Obama should get involved and make sure this kid doesn't see any jail time as it was his all his fault in the first place.

Holden Caulfield718 - why would you not run out of gas if Romney's president? Do you think he'll pay for YOUR gas? Seriously, do you think he will assume presidency and make all our problems go away? No seriously how, why what?!

Probably.

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Always the ~~ PPP~~~~"Paid Political Perverts" having to put in one side or the other ....

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Your Mammas Wear Pink Combat Boots To Church!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For those of you who think Obama, as President, doesn't "control gas prices"...I'm going to assume that you can possibly be one of those liberals who complained about GWB starting two wars in the the Mid-East and driving up gas prices for 8 years.

No, Obama doesn't set gas prices. Yes, Obama's foreign policy absolutely can effect gas prices.

The problem is that Obama publicly stated he wanted gas prices to be much, MUCH higher than they were to spur Americans toward alternative energy. Have all you people forgotten how much he talked about this during his campaign and after his election? Obama doesn't think there's a damn thing wrong with gas prices now and would like to see them higher....he wants them on par with European gas prices at $6-8/gallon. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't been paying attention for the last 5 years.

So, don't misunderstand this....a vote for Obama is a vote for gas prices to get higher and stay higher permanently. It's not an "accident"....it's what he has publicly stated he wants. Now that it's election time, he might back off this a bit to get the morons to fall for him again but if he's re-elected, don't expect gas prices to do anything but go up even more.

How in the world while walking down the high way with a bleeding young woman and no cell phone ----and no one would pull over, do you call 911???????????????????????????????????????

I am not defending this guy, he could have been on drugs or a crazy psychopath. What I am defending is sometime people become so poor and so desperate there isn't a lot of options and this story did not point to anything other than a desperate young man. ( maybe later we will hear he is a psychopath with a mile long criminal record and I will jump on your bandwagon, but not yet)

When my wife was pregnant I would have committed genocide if meant protecting her and the baby. It's a testosterone thing. I also had an undeniable craving for red meat, hunting and contact sports.

This guy was in a @!$%#ty situation. Car out of gas, no money, no cell phone, no money for the ambulance, no way to call 911, nobody willing to stop or help, Florida heat, and ticking time bomb of testosterone and a woman giving you holy hell for being such a @!$%# up......a man can only be pushed so far. That is not a situation where one is thinking clearly.

So yeah, I don't condone what he did, but I TOTALLY understand. This was a case of the ends justifying the means.

They had two working cell phones, according to other Florida-based news articles on line--and walked past a fire station.

Kallie and Randy, So, after you stole the car, would you threaten to kill the driver and kick him out of the car for not driving fast enough? And you are making up most of their obstacles you are using to excuse them. As in; they both HAD working cell phones. If it was such an emergency, why did their friends just drop them off instead of taking them to the hospital? Why did they walk passed a fire station without asking for help?

@ Randy:

When my wife was pregnant I would have committed genocide if meant protecting her and the baby. It's a testosterone thing.

No, it's an idiot and criminal thing - and had you done it, you'd just be one more jail cell occupant - and rightfully so! Hurting and endangering others because you're an idiot is never a justifiable excuse - but clearly some think so.

Exactly! Why are we letting the poor bread!

Buffoon!

Personally I think all people should be able to have bread. How else can they make a sandwich?

AHH I meant breed. Thank you Aaron.

why didn't the friend offered to drive them to the nearest gas station and then help them w the car, or why didn't the friend drive her to the hospital??

young and irresponsible

Money has nothing to do with it, poor or rich, if you're stupid, you're stupid.

So does that mean your advocating they get an abortion, right? That's the only alternative at this point. If you can't afford birth control or you don't have access to it for religious or cultural reasons then this is what happens. When you're broke there not much else to do than fool around. Or does the kid just get to grow up poor? I suppose they don't deserve government assistance either. Just another kid with no hope. After all they have all the opportunities in the world right? I love how somebody that's never been desperate in their life can sit back and judge. Even worse is somebody that has been poor and says that same thing. Life isn't a movie. They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

As far as his behavior if your girlfriend is pregnant the stress alone, much left the increase in testosterone will not make you think clearly and make you much more aggressive. Nature is a bitch. I don't condone what he did but I understand.

Randy-2190191,

You understand why this man, threatened to shoot a motorist, then later forced him out of the car? What about understanding what this criminal behavior might do to the victim? Our family were the victims of a home invasion five years ago. My son still has nightmares! We have been to several doctors, psychiatrists and social workers. How might what this criminal has done affect the victim, psychologically, in the future?

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ~~~~~~~~ "Exactly! Why are we letting the poor bread!"

As I recall the last leader of a country that had that belief was a Nazi Named Adolf Hitler ... he was rather unsuccessful ... and while fascist ideas seem to be seething to the surface, I don't believe the majority would go along with that since the latest census shows that " 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income"

For the mathematically challenged ... one half of our people are poor or low income .. Sooooooooooooo before you start considering limiting who can have children or "sterilization" look around you ... they are you and lol

And you can't fix stupid!

You people all comment about no money for this and that. You do not know if they both had been working and lost their jobs. You do not know the reason they did not have gas money. Our society is always ready to jump and hang someone when they do not know the facts.

Until you walk in the other persons shoes you should not condemn them !!!!!

He merely said he had a gun. Anyone can say it. That doesn't mean he actually has one. They stated that the gun was never seen or found.

Driver never saw a gun. Article doesn't say they found one.

And you would be willing to take that chance, simply because you didn't see the gun?

Yeah, it's not the easy free meal ticket Republicans say it is. Unless you have no job at all they won't help you. The poverty level is so low that they will deny you if you have a job. The only thing they have going is that they are not married, but if they live together they will add their incomes together regardless. That means no food stamps, no welfare, no medicare for the mother or the baby. Even with the baby the numbers don't change much. Baby doesn't count till it's born either. So they are probably in that nice horrible middle where they are too poor to support themselves but not poor enough for a assistance. I know, I've been there. And before anybody gets smart I was working a slaves wage for a large corporation but barely made enough to live on.

5 years for wells to be productive? So, if we had drilled baby drilled about 5 years ago, the wells would be online pretty soon, right?

I'm amazed at how much some people can make up about a situation. 'he loves his girlfriend, you can't deny that.' You can't? You have absolutely no clue whether this guy is a saint or an absolute monster. His long criminal record, including domestic violence, would lead me to believe that he's not the caring, concerend father you want him to be.

What we do know is that he prefered to steal a car than to use his working cell phone to call for help. He preferred to steal a car rather than ask for help at the fire station they walked by. We do know that he didn't get to the hospital and submit to the police and describe his deperate situation to them. He drove around the hospital parking lot trying to evade to police till they boxed him in.

'I'm betting that child has a decent chance there'll be a dad around its whole life' You mean when he's not in prison, right?

Explain to us how he loved his girlfried by putting her life and the life of their unborn child in danger. Basic common sense tells you to call for the people trained to handle medical emergencies when they arise, whether you have any money or not. The financial aspects can be worked out at a later date, take care of the immediate health crisis first. That means you call 911 and have THEM get your girlfriend and baby to the hospital safely.

Him and his girlfriend both had working cell phones and chose not use them. In addition, they walked past a manned fire station with at least one EMT inside (in Florida, Firefighters must also be either paramedics or EMTs).

Given the right circumstances anyone will break the law. Some people have to be pushed hard than others but nobody is immune. Every man has a limit.

Randy, he wasn't pushed at all. If the hospital was really his destination, he had two far easier solutions to the problem that he decided not to use, as Oh mamma mia stated. I"m getting so sick of everyone stating that every father would obviously do the same stupid, criminal things as this moron.

Randy,

Not everyone would break the law if it included threatening others or putting other lives in jeopardy.

When you offered the ride was the woman dehydrated and starting to bleed as it states in the article? Are you trained in medical emergencies? When you offered the couple living near you the ride what would you have done if the mother's water broke and she started to deliver while you were driving?

Sorry, but there is NO excuse for not using emergency services. Bills will always take second place to the health and safety of the family. Ambulance services will always accept payment plans. Besides, if the couple could not afford the ambulance fee, how do they expect to pay the doctor and hospital bills?

When you refer to the kind of people Americans are, you mean everyone but you, right?

"If some good Samaritan had just stopped and given this guy and his pregnant girlfriend a ride to the hospital, we would not even be reading this story right now."

Star - a good samaritan DID stop and give a ride. It was after he was in the car that he carjacked it.

oh yeah, there's also a hospital in Deland. must not have been a good one...