bored at work and just read this:
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'Rampage' Jackson says he was delirious during chase
Ultimate Fighting ex-champ says he hadn't slept or eaten before pursuit that left behind crunched cars and scare people.
By LARRY WELBORN
The Orange County Register
SANTA ANA – Ultimate Fighting Championship brawler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson said he hadn't slept for days, wasn't eating and was mentally exhausted and delirious when he led police on a wild chase last month.
Jackson, a former UFC champion who is one of the biggest names in one of the fastest-growing sports, said he also felt there was a spiritual war going on in his mind between God and the devil when he raced down Newport Boulevard on July 15, leaving a wake of rumpled cars, frightened pedestrians and angry police.
He said he thought he was on a mission to save a friend – who had recently lost his faith in God – and was unaware that he had hit any other cars or was being pursued by a phalanx of police cars.
"I thought I heard the voice of God telling me to go save Brian," he said in an interview Thursday after his arraignment on two felony evading arrest charges. "I felt if I didn't get to Brian, he would die."
Now, he says, he believes he was irrational because of lack of sleep and nutrition.
"What was I thinking?" he said. "l know now that Brian was never in danger. … But I really thought at the time that he was about to die."
Jackson said he takes "full responsibility" for what happened, adding that he apologizes to "everyone who was affected."
He said his primary worry after he came to his senses was whether anyone was hurt in the wild bumper car-like chase that began where the 55 Freeway empties out onto Newport Boulevard and ended in front of his friend Brian's house on Balboa Peninsula.
Initially, police said no one was hurt in the broad daylight chase. But later, a pregnant woman who was driving a Cadillac Escalade damaged during the incident, said she had a miscarriage a few days later.
Jackson, 30, of Irvine, was charged on Tuesday with two felony evading police counts, three misdemeanor hit-and-run counts and one misdemeanor reckless driving. He was not charged in connection with the woman's miscarriage, which prosecutors say was unrelated to the collision.
If convicted, Jackson faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
Defense attorney Carol Lavacot entered not guilty pleas for Jackson at his arraignment Thursday morning before Superior Court Judge Vickie L. Hix, who scheduled a pre-trial hearing on the case for Oct. 9 and a preliminary hearing for Nov. 3. Jackson will remain free on $25,000 bail.
He said he is not worried about the outcome of his court case. "I am a man who believes everything happens for a reason. Maybe something good will happen out of this."
Jackson, an intense battler known for the huge chain he wore around his neck before bouts inside the UFC cage, is accused of crashing into three vehicles and narrowly missing several pedestrians and bicyclists.
Police say that during the chase Jackson crossed over the center median in his lifted Ford 350 pickup truck, drove up on a sidewalk sending pedestrians leaping out of his way, raced down the wrong side of Newport Boulevard, and ran through several red lights. Jackson was talking on the phone throughout most of the chase, according to witnesses, and seemed to be unaware that for most of the time he was riding on three tires and a rim.
Jackson said that he remembers driving over the median, almost hitting a woman at a bus bench on a sidewalk, driving on the wrong side of the road, and that something was wrong with one of his tires.
But he insisted that he did not know that he had crashed into any other cars or that police cars were chasing him with red lights flashing and sirens wailing.
Jackson also said he was not depressed or worried that he had recently lost his UFC light-heavyweight belt in a fight in early July to contender Forrest Griffen. He said he believed he had won that fight and would get the championship back in a big pay-day rematch.
But he said he was depressed and obsessed after learning that his best friend, who was also one of his employees, had allegedly been cheating him out of money.
Losing the cash, he said, wasn't as painful as learning that his friend was behind what he called a betrayal. The friend, who he declined to identify, was like a father to him. He said they prayed together and that he felt like they were family.
Jackson said his mind started to obsessively dwell on the betrayal, prompting him to lose his appetite and a lot of sleep.
And then to compound things, Jackson said, he stayed awake for most of the night before the wild pursuit watching the movie "The Secret" on his DVD player, over and over again. "The Secret" is a story about using free will to make things happen in life. The film has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show and has been used as motivation in court-ordered classes for drunken-drivers, according to Lavacot.
Jackson said he watched the movie to the end that night and saw its message in a new light. Jackson, who became a born-again Christian about four years ago, said he connected the teachings of the movie with the teachings of the Bible.
"The Bible told me to have faith," he said. "But 'The Secret' taught me how to have faith."
But then he also remembered he had loaned a copy of "The Secret" to his friend Brian Talbert, also a UFC fighter. He said he somehow got it in his mind that if he didn't warn his friend to watch the movie all the way to the end, Brian would die.
When Jackson pulled over after the five-mile police chase on July 15, he was in front of Brian's house on Balboa Peninsula.
Lavacot said that Jackson, because of his mental state, was unaware that he was breaking any laws during the chase.
"The law says you have to have criminal intent. He didn't have it," Lavacot said.
"You can analogize this to somebody whose child is dying," she added. "Are they going to slow down or stop and wait for an ambulance? Or are they going to do everything they can to get that child to the hospital?"
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my favorite was when he said he "had a spritual war going on in his head between God and the Devil" :loco::loco::loco: