Oregon woman takes ambulance joyride

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Sure, Christy Lynn Woods, 37, may have boosted an ambulance while paramedics performed CPR on an unconscious woman in southern Oregon. Sure, she then led police officers, sheriff's deputies and state troopers on a high-speed chase up Interstate 5 for nearly 30 miles — ambulance lights flashing the whole way, authorities say. And yes, she is accused of ramming a cop car off the freeway as her speedometer hit 85 miles an hour.

But, seated and handcuffed in the back of a patrol car Sunday, Woods apparently wanted to know what the fuss was all about. "I was a good [expletive] driver," she reportedly told Officer Chris Bonebrake, court records filed in Douglas County show. "I didn't try to hurt anyone."


Furthermore, Woods seemed to think the whole thing wasn't her fault. "Why did they leave it unlocked?" she asked Bonebrake, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by the officer.

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