Karma's Gonna Bite You in the Butt, or Worse, if You Run from the Law

By Elizabeth Nelson

Criminals will never learn, karma is a bitch and she has teeth.  I guess they'll have to learn the hard way, let's look at the lesson these two fleeing suspect learned, and how they had to learn it.  

We'll start with Bryan Zuniga, a 20 year old who was being stopped for simply failing to maintain a single line.  We all know this would be a simple fine or possible warning, nothing more. 

However, we all know where this is going, if we take common sense off the table. Yep, he pulled over then bailed out of the passenger side door.  He kicked a hole in a vinyl fence and fled on foot.  He's innocent right? Because the innocent are the ones that run from cops, right?

We find this runner a few hours later at a local hospital being treated for multiple puncture wounds to his face, arm and armpit area. We see, karma caught up to him.  Zuniga told deputies that he had been attacked by an alligator near a water treatment plant in unincorporated St. Petersburg.

Zuniga is facing charges with fleeing and eluding a police officer, driving with a suspended or revoked license, resisting an officer without violence and breaking or injuring fences. He's being held on $6,300 bond. Deputies say they aren't sure how big the gator is that attacked Zuniga.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission officer says they’ve opened up an incident report on this case. The officer says anytime a gator attacks a human it has to be caught and put down  Read more Baynews9.

At lease this Florida criminal gets to walk away to tell the story. 22-year-old Matthew Riggins of Palm Bay wouldn't be as fortunate, when 11 feet  of karma met him face to face of growing mouth full of teeth.  We'd think these idiot would learn that running from the cops, when you've done something wrong, never ends well.   

22-year-old Matthew Riggins of Palm Bay was suspected of burglarizing homes here in Florida, and right before Christmas.  He told his girlfriend as much on the phone. She said, "he would be burglarizing homes the evening of 13 November and later told her he was being chased by deputies." 

So, to avoid detection from the police that where pursuing him on Tuesday, he decided it would be a great idea to wade out into the lake to avoid detection.   Well, he wasn't caught that night.

Sheriff’s deputies chased Riggins and another suspect with dogs and a helicopter on 13 November, after residents in the Barefoot Bay community reported two men walking behind houses, authorities said.

No suspects were caught that night. Riggins was reported missing by his family when he did not return home, according to the sheriff’s report. His body was found 10 days later floating in a lake, with an aggressive gator standing guard, sheriff’s major Tod Goodyear said.

Oh no, did you catch that? Trying to dodge the cops, he sealed his fate when he became gator bait

A 22-year-old man suspected of burglarizing homes in Florida was killed and partially eaten by an 11ft (3.4-meter) alligator after he waded into a lake.

An autopsy on the man, Matthew Riggins of Palm Bay, determined that he drowned in November after an apparent alligator attack. A necropsy on the alligator revealed parts of the man’s body in the reptile’s stomach, according to a report released this week by the Brevard County sheriff’s office.

Moral of the story; You can run, you can hide but you're just going to die sick and tired and in the belly of someone else, who could care less that you're guilty of a crime, they just want to spitefully use you for their own gains.  Sad, we have no accountability anymore,