Comments on: Most epic slow-speed police chase ever (video)

By: Michael Hoss

Michael Hoss — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:53:00 +0000

The problem with that (following the truck, setting up roadblocks farther down the interstate, forcing him to stop) is, who knows what the truck driver is thinking, for all they know he might be wildly drunk and decide to ram his truck into a school building. or a nearby gas station causing an explosion and more fatalities. Granted it wasn’t the prettiest take down, but had the truck driver not been in complete disobedience to the law, none of the events would have taken place. In which I’m sure you would continue to tell everyone just how stupid the police are because they didn’t do this or that. I think we demonize the people that help us out entirely too much, but here’s the thing, no one can see into the future, and no one makes perfect calls 100 percent of the time. In reality who knows how much worse it could have really been.

By: Steven Fast Petersen

Steven Fast Petersen — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Yeah. “Fox News”

By: IndexMe

IndexMe — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:09:00 +0000

The driver probably was having a psychotic episode / was on drugs / having a mental breakdown. Was there no way to stop without shooting him personally?

By: benher

benher — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:16:00 +0000

But Fox news SAID it was the wood!

By: benher

benher — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:13:00 +0000

Ah, perhaps you missed that little “Fox” logo up in the corner ;)

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 07:48:00 +0000

I don’t know if I should take your comment seriously or not. Anti-Material Rifle eh? I don’t know what kind of world you live in, but not using deadly force in that situation would have been foolish by the cops. He was the biggest vehicle on the road making it impossible for “heavy” vehicles to box him in. Setting up a road block would result in him either running over the blockage causing more damage, or simply turning around as you saw him do several times. It seems you’re stating that the police were the cause of the damage that took place, which of course, isn’t true. It’s because of their action the pursuit was even brought to a hold!

By: serpent

serpent — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:10:00 +0000

Rubberduck returns?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/
Btw, you can watch the whole movie on Youtube. The fight scene in the bar is hillarious!

By: Andreas Beer

Andreas Beer — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:42:00 +0000

best high five ever!

By: hassan-i-sabbah

hassan-i-sabbah — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:33:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD39tzmKAiU

By: JhmL

JhmL — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:37:00 +0000

I wonder how much prison time he got.

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:33:00 +0000

A warning? Not even that, and just think of the damages he’d be claiming!

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:31:00 +0000

Or earlier: fiddling as Rome burned.

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:22:00 +0000

A child was jostled.

JOSTLED.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:38:00 +0000

The $25,000 question left unanswered.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:33:00 +0000

Some places don’t allow police chases because they tend to encourage the chasee to go 120 mph on city streets while mowing down pedestrians.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:29:00 +0000

The color of the smoke was a bit of a hint that it wasn’t from burning wood.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:17:00 +0000

You think Richard Scarry’s “Busytown” is all fun & games, but replace the hippos, cats, pigs & dogs with humans & all those hijinks are suddenly acts of terror.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:15:00 +0000

Apparently the police are always wrong & make all situations worse. Who knew!

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:40:00 +0000

What I always disliked about this clip is that they imply that sparks set the wood on fire. There’s a little forklift attached to the back of the trailer. The fire is the burning fuel and oil from the forklift. The wood dies ignite and burn a little, but quickly goes out once the forklift fire goes out. It’s very hard to get tightly packed lumber to burn.

By: Palomino

Palomino — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:29:00 +0000

I wonder if the jostled child survived his injuries.

By: travtastic

travtastic — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:56:00 +0000

John Bunnell’s apparent fetish for punishing and shooting people is creepy.

By: eldritch

eldritch — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:48:00 +0000

Did you miss the part where the police shot out the rear tires, causing the fire to begin with? Or the part where the lumber, which was only on fire because of police action, fell off the truck because the driver was attempting to flee from, and slow the pursuit of, the police who, may I remind you, were SHOOTING at him?

Guns escalate situations. The moment a gun enters an equation, everyone is put into more danger. People take bigger risks when bullets start flying. People make bigger mistakes.

How might the situation have ended differently if the police cars gave up direct pursuit and one of the helicopters followed the truck instead? Why not set up a roadblock ahead of the suspect? Why not use heavy vehicles to box the truck in and force it to a stop? Or if you’re going to bring deadly force into the equation, why use handguns to shoot out tires when you could use an anti-material rifle to shoot out the engine? Clearly shooting out the tires didn’t do anything to help end the chase, and in fact made matters worse. But shooting out the engine would have ended it immediately.

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:22:00 +0000

Not to mention someone driving a flaming truck dumping lumber on the road and almost hitting a school bus. He had little to do with the situation I’m sure. Idiot cops!

By: fredh

fredh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:25:00 +0000

This is just begging to be turned into a 70′s truck driving song incorporating all the details. Somebody with more musical talent than me get on it.

By: Florian Braun

Florian Braun — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:03:00 +0000

It occurs to me that if they had simply monitored where he was going and waited for him to run out of gas there would have been minimal injuries and little destruction, but you know, that would just not be nearly as fun…

By: Neill "Dire" Mitchell

Neill "Dire" Mitchell — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Whenever they have UK chase footage they always over-dub a quaint “Nee-Ner” siren I haven’t heard since the ’70.

By: Ramone

Ramone — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:47:00 +0000

Rest in Peace Tom Keith.

By: Dr_Wadd

Dr_Wadd — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:37:00 +0000

Zapp Brannigan?

By: hymenopterid

hymenopterid — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:37:00 +0000

But imagine how good it would have been if the narrator had to make all the sound effects with his mouth, like that guy on “Prairie Home Companion”.

—He slams into the guardrail. screee-SMASH! But the cops are right on his tail. WEEE-OOH-WEEE-OOOH. His stolen pickup is no match for their crown vic interceptors. VROOOM WAAAHHHnnnguh.–

By: huskerdont

huskerdont — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:36:00 +0000

It was right about this time I gave up on network TV (except the Simpsons, of course). Ah, memories.