FHP: Knife-Wielding Man Jumps On Hood Of Car Traveling On Palmetto

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A stretch of the Palmetto Expressway was locked down Tuesday night after a bizarre incident that involved a man jumping on the hood of a moving vehicle with a knife in his mouth.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a man's vehicle broke down on the side of the Palmetto sometime after 9 p.m.

The man tried flagging people down for help.

He ended up jumping on the hood of a white Mercedes driven by a woman somewhere around NW 67th Avenue.

The woman, terrified of having man with knife in his mouth on her hood, didn't stop driving

She kept traveling eastbound down the Palmetto until she spotted an off-duty FHP trooper at NW 57th Avenue and ran to him for help.

After an exchange between the trooper and the knife-wielding man, the trooper ended up using his Taser.

"A lot of things could have gone bad, okay. He could have gotten run over by a car. Things could have gone differently," said Florida Highway Patrol Joe Sanchez. "The trooper in this case, you know, felt that his life was threatened, but he did what he is trained to do. And he used a less deadly method. In this case he used his Taser.  And he was able to get the subject under control, arrested the subject.

FHP told CBS4's Oralia Ortega that man was either on drugs or had some sort of mental issue. He was taken to the hospital where he has been Baker Acted

Charges are pending at this time.