A weekend in Fort Myers took a dangerous turn when a man with an active domestic violence injunction against him decided that a personal dispute was best handled with a pickup truck. It did not go well for him.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 35-year-old Joseph Absalon following a violent and chaotic incident on Timothy Lane that left a neighbor’s vehicle damaged, a modular home repeatedly struck, and law enforcement officers scrambling to stop a reckless chase through a residential neighborhood. The whole thing was captured on video and shared by the agency on Facebook, because apparently some people need to see the footage before they believe this actually happens.
Witnesses say Absalon climbed into his truck and backed aggressively onto a neighboring property, striking both a parked vehicle and the side of the residence approximately five times. Five. Whether that was out of rage, determination, or just a particularly bad Sunday morning is unclear, but deputies were not amused. After causing that damage, he reportedly drove down the road and stopped directly in front of a home where he is already under a court-ordered domestic violence injunction, which was its own separate legal problem before the truck rampage even started…