How to humiliate your local highway patrolman...

[Staga]

Here's a realplayer video how Lotus (Opel) Omega 3,6 TwinTurbo humiliates police's Saab 9000 Turbo in Sweden.

IMHO public roads are not for race but that 377hp Omega is really "Uber"  

[Maverick]

Staga,

How enthusiastic would you have been if that idiot had killed someone with that stunt? Driving in that manner is beyond reckless. It was endangering all the lives of those who were on the road with that idiot. All it would take is one small mistake, a failed tire or another car pulling out into the roadway for someone to have died.

In Arizona, fleeing from a police vehicle is a felony. That means no less than a year in the state prison minimum if there are no injuries in the chase.

Damn stupid thing to do. I could think of more appropriate words to describe it but they would not be good to post on an open bbs.

Mav

[Fishu]

...and still I've seen many car chase films from US, which surely encourages someones to do it, even if they see them crash into something.. they go "hey thats cool, but that guy was soo stupid when he went out like that, i'll never would do that mistake and I won't.. here i gooo"

It seems like national (international?) entertainment by US to me...

[RAM]

Maverick, IIRC you are a cop, right?. Your point of view is that of a policeman, and is right. That guy was endangering other men's life.

But, apart that fishu's right in his remarks that the most car chases seen in films are from America, remember that there are a lot of car chases in TV news.

 Most of them are from US,and the times that a car is running so fast is that the driver has something serious to hide...a robbery, drugs, whatever. So I think that the year on the jail because the car chase won't be so important for the driver than the other felonies he surely has commited. In fact, seen from the moron's point of view for sure is worth to risk the extra year in jail to try avoiding the 15 years for Drug trade.

Anyway, I am sure that Staga posted it as a spectacular chase involving two impressive cars, a Saab9000 (I LOVE SAABS!), and a 380CV Lotus, not as a "look, this guy running from the police is kewl" thing.

 The film is spectacular indeed and worth to be seen,regardless that the stupid in the Lotus is a moron that deserves some time in a jail to make him think about road chases.


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[Fishu]

Oh well... my point was more that they're selling those videos for entertainment with some cheap notes "this is very dangerous and might cost lifes" (and who would really even listen to that when is already immune for everytime repeating sentence?)

[StSanta]

Heh the very same thing but just with a "positive" (and thus acceptable) spin are those silly "hot pursuits by police" programs I've seen, most made in the US with footage from primarily the US but also from all over the world.

It's the same fascination and drive that makes us watch these things. Just like we cannot hep but look as we pass the site of an accident, we find such films fascinating.

That police vehicle was doing over 205km/h. The police do it for a living, as a service to the people, to help, not cause damage. It's quite dangerous. I respect the people for that, and have little respect for people who needlessly endanger my life by going 250km/h.

Good driving, but the margins of error are so small...

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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
 

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[blur]

How stupid is the pig chasing him?

They should be brought up on charges instigating high-speed chases.

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by blur:
How stupid is the pig chasing him?

Nothing. It's the policeman's duty to stop law offenders. sometimes it may be risky, but would you want the robber of a shop of your property to escape because the policeman didnt want to drive over 55mph?.

And anyway I am sure that the Policeman wasn't having too much fun, believe me. I can't say the same about the stupid on the Lotus.

[funked]

Blur you are all class...

 

[blur]

 

Originally posted by RAM:
Nothing. It's the policeman's duty to stop law offenders. sometimes it may be risky, but would you want the robber of a shop of your property to escape because the policeman didnt want to drive over 55mph?.
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No amount of property is worth a human life.

Besides police have radios and helicopters. They should use them.

[Fishu]

Blur just forgets that some people wants to go fast and crazy on purpose, how do you stop those then?
By promising a freedom for them huh?

[Staga]

This one looks like it's taken from some kind of American police-video (Cops?).

Crime doesn't pay

Better ?

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[Mickey1992]

Staga, that footage is now widely used by law enforcement agencies in the US in educating high-schoolers about the dangers of fleeing police and high speed chases.

The two individuals in the pickup, a male and a female stealing a riding mower, were both killed.

[Udie]

wasn't the girl pregnant?  I remember seeing that video on TV a few years ago. sad  

udie

[RAM]

You really think that if someone steals something or is doint something illegal that will mean quite more than a couple of years at jail, to see that video will stop him from running away as fast as he can if a policeman asks him to stop his car?.

People in those situations only think in their own skin, and that they don't want to get caught. and they run.

And sometimes, the inevitable happens