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‘I Locked Eyes With Her and She Just Gunned It’: Sandusky’s Wife Nearly Runs Over News Reporter

Wife Dottie Sandusky Nearly Runs Over News Reporter Courtney Brennan With Her Car

Courtney Brennan looked off camera moments before diving out of the car's path. (Image source: WPXI-TV)

A television news reporter had a frightening moment when she and her photographer were nearly run over by Jerry Sandusky‘s wife while taping a report in front of the former Penn State coach’s house Thursday.

Courtney Brennan of Pittsburgh’s WPXI-TV was taping a report about complaints police had received that Sandusky was watching children in a schoolyard from his back porch. Brennan suddenly looked off camera and quickly ducked out of the frame seconds before a car driven by Dottie Sandusky came zooming up the driveway, inches from where Brennan had been standing.

In a radio interview with Pittsburgh’s WKST-FM 96.1, Brennan said Dottie Sandusky actually “revved her engine at us before she came flying up the hill into her driveway.”

Brennan said she and her photographer weren‘t standing on the Sanduskys’ property and weren’t blocking the entrance to the driveway. She saw the car out of the corner of her eye and heard an engine revving when “she just came at us.”

“I locked eyes with her and she just gunned it,” Brennan told WKST.

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  • forthepeople
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:51am

    The stay away from her house, property . Being there with cameras , vans and news people would provoke anyone !

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    • ThemDemsLie2much
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:13am

      Can’t blame her one bit. Don’t come to my home with out an invite when you know your not welcomed. Liberal Media POS. Be all different if it were the reporters house.

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:20am

      I think the people supporting ‘Dottie’ are screwed in the head. Her husband raped little boys. Sakes you people are worse than Paultards.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:33am

      RED MEAT
      Since when did you become judge and jury?
      If the reporter and photographer were not in the driveway nor private property, then there should not have been a problem. If the woman drove up on the curb to hit them….PRESS CHARGES! She would be trying to harm them.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:43am

      Reporters can be the informers against acts like Sandusky’s. His wife’s actions, like her denials when he had little boys in their basement makes me feel as if she is a part of his crimes and should be prosecuted. These are people who totally think they are above the law. IF they are innocent, this doesn’t indicate it. REPORTERS should be every where it’s legal, shining spotlights on this and any story that speaks of child abuse.

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    • ConstLaw
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:24pm

      Here is a simple concept, you don‘t stand in the streets and I won’t drive on the sidewalks.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:04pm

      Jerry Sandusky is the lowest form of life on the planet ,half a rung up on that ladder are reporters ,“journalist” ,politicians, lawyers and progressives of all occupations. So I don’t blame her for wanting to run the reporter over.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:40pm

      My wife… would not have even noticed the bump… of driving over an Idiot!

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    • mullet
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:17pm

      @drattastic – Where exactly are you on this planet earth life ladder? Judge not lest you be judged my friend. There are evil people in every occupation.

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    • Tear Em Up
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:19pm

      The media, finally, was doing it’s job. Now, people want to support a wife that possibly turned her back on child rape??? Pathetic….

      http://traffic.libsyn.com/mikeleeandterrymartin/Number_102_February_11th_2012.mp3

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:22am

      I am not sticking up for Sandusky, but his lawyer said that he was not looking at kids. Rather the parents were taking their children to school through his property. And you can see the tracks where several people appear to have done just that.

      He is likely to go down for his crimes, but I have my doubts about the latest accusation.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:10am

      .
      ‘I Locked Eyes With Her and She Just Gunned It’
      ……and you just happened to be harassing her at her home?
      Honey, buy some track shoes, the public hates you.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 5:59pm

      Really? I mean are you saying it is ok to run over a reporter? For doing a report from a public street?

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    • red_white_blue2
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:56pm

      That makes great sense. Let’s let Dottie not take any responsibility for her actions. I mean after all, its what her husband did..seems fair!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:32am

      this isn‘t about sandusky it’s about his wife being harrassed by the media. She isn’t accused of raping anyone. The media is infringing on her rights as a citizen.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:45am

    If I had a bunch of MSM vultures camped out in my yard getting run over by a truck would be the least of their worries.

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    • mzk1
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:30pm

      Anybody remember when the reporters camped out on Oliie North’s lawn?

      This is a borderline case, but when is it reporting and when is it stalking?

      In too many cases, the same act done by someone in one profession (reporter, lawyer) is not considered a crime, while anyone else doing the same thing would go to jail. There should be one law for everyone.

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  • The Woot
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:34am

    You realize this guy is under house arrest and hasn’t been convicted of anything yet?

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  • Barry@Occidental1980
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:32am

    Dottie should make her point by shooting up a laptop.

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:20am

    that is to bad that the car missed the reporter, I understand that in that town the road kill is donated to the dog pound, that would have justifyed the existance of the hag and her key hole peeping camara man.

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  • MeatHammer
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:15am

    I think Dottie should be aiming that car at ole Jerry.

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  • DD313
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:10am

    I don’t know if the video was originally attached to this story (There seemed to be a gap near the top where one might have been); however it was available elsewhere. The reporter is seemingly caught by surprise and flinches as the SUV drives by, with no revving sound audible beforehand. She expressed no concern for herself, but only said that her cameraman came close to being hit. The camera view remains on the spot the reporter flinched out of without evidence of flinching or interjection on the cameraman’s part. He then zooms in on the SUV entering the garage and the door coming down. Hey, I just went back to check the video again, and it’s gone from the site where I saw it. Hurry up if you want to see it, scrubbing may be taking place. To sum it up; this story is not news; rather, it is a news reporter’s dream of advancing her career.

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  • c.foster4722
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:08am

    I guess she is pissed off because she hasn’t been gitting laid lately!

     
  • qzak491
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:57am

    If this reporter had gone to the backyard to see if the playground could be seen she was trespassing and needed to be run over. YOU will notice this is a blonde woman reporter, the kind that thinks they are always right and they can do anything and get away with it because she is a reporter. She is pure evil because she thinks of nothing but herself and how she can get ahead and be better than a man reporter. She is driven by pride and arrogance, one is a sin and the other is a result of that sin. She should be fired for trespassing on private property.

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  • texasoysterman
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:27am

    I have no sympathy for Jerry and just a little (very little) for Dottie, but this is ridiculous.
    The reporter said she (and her cameraman) were NOT on Sanduskey’s property or blocking their driveway. If that’s the case, how freakin’ close could the car have come? I doubt the property line is right at the edge of the driveway. It’s probably over at least a couple of feet. So this reporter is way overstating the danger she was supposedly in.
    And Dottie ““revved her engine at us before she came flying up the hill into her driveway.”
    What, is that like racking the slide on a 12 gauge? She “revved her engine at us?”
    STFU, Courtney.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:41am

      I agree! How about a report from the border!

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:32am

      In every place I’ve ever heard of, it would be illegal to build a driveway right up to the property line. It’s usually at least two feet.

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:27am

    I’ll be tickled when people start actually running over reporters.
    They have been way out of line for years and very few report the truth,
    most of the media just pushes washingtons crooked agenda.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:18am

      Thank you, I find reporters and their agenda totally out of line. Hanging out at people’s houses is disgusting, what the hell are they looking for anyway? Someone to come out and commit hari-kari on the front lawn? It’s been weeks now, give it a rest. The whole neighborhood would be happy if they would just leave.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:44pm

      Agree .. and I hate it when someone has a tragedy and they stick the microphone in their face and ask “how do you feel” .. give me a break .. idiots .. most media people are people who went to college and couldn’t hack the hard classes … ;-)

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  • barber2
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:18am

    The “media” daily over-steps their bounds. Sounds just like the unions/ ACORN groups which invade neighbors and ruin lives with their intrusiveness. Apparently with the media today, one may be innocent until proven guilty but one is not going to be spared harassment if just charged with a crime. Everyone is fair game for the media who profits from the nosiness of the public which has lost its sense of privacy and politeness. Perhaps the ordeals people are put through by the media should count as “ time served ” if found guilty. If proven innocent…then what ??

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  • woodyenglish
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:16am

    When reporters don’t have a story they just make one up to try to get attention.
    Ms. Brennan is just such a reporter, and so are the folks at WKST that are talking to her.
    Earth to all of them….the driveway is up a hill. You step on the gas harder to get up a hill. When you don’t want to talk to some jerk standing near the end of your driveway, you step on the gas a little harder to avoid them. So ? When you‘re NOT standing in fronty of a car it can’t run you over. What a concept ! So Ms. Sandusky made sure that ( another reporter that gives blondes a bad rep ) Ms. Brennan saw her by locking eyes with her, and then quickly proceeded past. I would have done the exact same thing. FYI that engine wasn’t “revved”. It simply accelerated uphill and quickly past. Ms. Brennan should have used the expression “Oh my God” to ask forgiveness for lying on camera about the incident.

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    • grassroots
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:25am

      You were not there people like you are what is wrong with the world today.

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    • ME
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:02am

      grassroots
      its a logical assessment, as a jury might give at a trial they where not there as well but still render a verdict based on information they are given. That fact that people are blinded by rage and ignorance and will not see right from wrong, is what is wrong with people today.

      That Coach and his wife are in my opinion dirt bags but what kind of a dirt bag uses them to get face time for there own carer? This report is using a pedophile to get her self noticed please tell how she is any better then the perv without out getting all emotional. If you would capitalize on that kind of a crime to further yourself is there any low you would not reach for?

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    • LLATPOH
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:51am

      @ME

      Which would you rather have in your neighborhood… a 10th rate reporter, or a guy who apparently likes to show kids who’s boss by anally raping them?

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:33am

      LL

      Neither
      He will be in jail
      She should be doing a report on how much Illegals, and the American Takers are stealing from the American Taxpayers.

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    • ME
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:15pm

      LLATPOH
      Thinking like a liberal
      Would you rather be shot in the head or your leg? Sure you can agree that one will kill you and the other just maim or you can use your head and say I don’t want any evil not even a little is OK and not justify one evil because it is better then another. That is how you say well McCain is better then Obama when both are crap. I am done with the idea that I have to be OK with a little evil just because it stands next to a monster.

      13th Imam
      right on Neither

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  • dsm
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:03am

    I saw thison my local news and laughed my *ss off. Jerry Sandusky is a dirtbag no question. However, I have not heard of any reports that his wife was standing next to him when he was abusing children.
    The news could have covered the story without the airheaded reporter standing right in front of their house.
    The Sandusky family is not to blame for Jerry’s slimeball past.

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    • Wilbur Longshank
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:12am

      jerry should get what’s coming to him in due time. the house next store took a video of him playing with his dog out on the back deck Jerry was on the deck with dog treats the dog was in the yard and jerry was tossing it treats and the dog was running to fetch them.

      Our local news showed the video from the guy next to jerrys house he must of taken the video from inside his house so jerry could not see him.

      Now I am not saying jerry didn‘t look at kids but on the video it didn’t seem like he was watching kids as the media and his Neighbor says he was. it just seemed like he was playing with his dog.

      I think the neighbors are just trying to stir up trouble.

      I not sticking up for jerry but what’s right is right if the man was just playing with his dog so be it.

      he will be in jail and out of peoples hair soon enough.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:57am

    If the reporter was looking for sympathy,by reading these messages she came to the wrong place lol……If she thought she had to do the story she should have done it at the school maybe pointing in the direction of Sandusky’s house ….seems to me the reporter was hoping for a confrontation.

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    • grassroots
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:23am

      Your response regarding the reporter almost getting run over by Dottie Sandusky is very troubling.

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    • acad1228
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:39am

      Grassroots, I don‘t get what’s troubling. The woman was driving on her driveway. The reporter states that she was not on the Sandusky’s property. I don’t see how she was almost run over.

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  • Turin
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:56am

    yawn

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:54am

    I don’t care the man is a sicko.

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  • Joyzee
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:52am

    i heard the rev of the engine, and a slapping sound going faster!

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:56am

      I put poker cards in my spokes when I was younger!

      Now I have a CD that makes my car sound like Hemi!

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  • 1me2ao
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:51am

    just imagine being the neighbor during this whole thing.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:10am

      Imagine if you are that neighbor and you are trying to sell your house, good luck.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:13am

      If I ever got Geraldo Rivera in my sights, it would be hard not to floor it.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:33pm

      @Gonzo
      Yesterday my roommate asked me why I said, “who died” out loud. I told her that someone said Geraldo Rivera on the news. She looked at me confusingly. I explained, “Every time I hear his name or see his face I always think… Who Died?”. Geraldo (who died?) Rivera is what I call him.

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  • ares338
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:42am

    I don’t like reporters. One less reporter….who cares?

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  • txblaze
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:39am

    Oh boo-hoo. I have no love for Jerry Sandusky but reporters can be obnoxious.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:26am

    Some reporters just love to become part of the story.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:33am

      She almost became part of the grille

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:10pm

      Brennan said she and her photographer weren‘t standing on the Sanduskys’ property and weren’t blocking the entrance to the driveway.
      B.S….She was standing right in the middle of the road, in front of the driveway..Now I don’t know about this Sandusky guy, he sounds like a piece..But that will come out in court…But she was right at the foot of the driveway…I watched the video..Another of those double talkers that think they can spin what really happened..She’s well on her way to becoming a white house corespondent.

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  • TheBeezKnow
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:26am

    I would have thrown snowballs at her. Leave this woman alone. I think she has had to deal with enough.

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    • grassroots
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:32am

      You say Dottie has enough to deal with? How about stop being in denial and do the right thing and leave her husband. Dottie Sandusky should say,” I am thoroughly disgusted with my husbands actions and am truly sorry for what he has done to these boys.“ Dottie your husband is a ”a child molestor”

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:02am

      Studies show that 3% of the population are pedophiles and 3% are idiots……Sandusky is an example of the former and Grassroots is an example of the latter.

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  • Tea Party Animal
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:23am

    Sandusky is an animal…however, I‘m not buying this reporter’s story. How can the reporter claim that they “weren‘t standing on the Sanduskys’ property and weren’t blocking the entrance to the driveway” if Sandusky’s wife ““revved her engine at us before she came flying up the hill into her driveway.”

    Reporters need to respect private property….PERIOD! Or they are no better than papparazzi!

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  • moodtd01
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:07am

    She is probably tired of the vultures circling her house and not having a life any longer. She may even believe her husband is innocent and the media has made him to look like a bad guy. For whatever reason she was trying to relieve some stress from her life and take out some bad guys. Lawyers, Reporters, Liberals, Fake Conservatives, OWSers… They could all use a good scare like that one, might bring their life into perspective for them.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:15am

      His wife was probably wishing she was a little boy and could get Jerrys attention..

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