OMG fark the police!!!!!!

Don't worry people. He'd be out in a couple of hours, get the tires fixed, and in to the bar and driving home, slowly, in no time.

/Legal system only jails and punishes black peoples.
//Ducks and hides for writing the truth about the remnants of the legal system we have left.
///If he'd had drugs on him, well thats a major federal case, but alcohol is a legal and taxed product, so Pfffft..

They could have ran in front of the car and shot pepper spray into the grill and eventually the air vent.

I see a dystopic sport in the future.

Another police "chase" on the 405 in LA county?

//RTFA:nope, not this time

Saw what I think was a drunk driver going about 2 mph in a 30, tires rubbing the right-side curb, his bumper smacking things as he went. Bus sign, trash can, bang...scrape.....bang.

Right behind him was a cop car, lights going but no sound.

/All I thought was :"you in some trouble, boy".

Why didn't they just "chase" him home and let him sleep it off? He ain't killing anyone at speeds "up to" 10 mph.

Drunk or not. How do you not dodge spike strips at 10 miles per hour? Nothing exactly sneaks up on you at that speed.

Yep looks pretty drunk here;



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Whenever I hear about strange changes, I always remember This (pops)

Tahllunari: Drunk or not. How do you not dodge spike strips at 10 miles per hour? Nothing exactly sneaks up on you at that speed.

Well, if you're at the end of one of those culs de sac, and they put spike strips across the entrance to the cul de sac, they're kind of hard to avoid. Even if one doesn't stretch all the way from house to house across the street and yards, two or three strips will.

At that speed they could have stopped him with a couple of these strips.

Kenny, can't this thing go any faster?!?

untaken_name: Tahllunari: Drunk or not. How do you not dodge spike strips at 10 miles per hour? Nothing exactly sneaks up on you at that speed.

Well, if you're at the end of one of those culs de sac, and they put spike strips across the entrance to the cul de sac, they're kind of hard to avoid. Even if one doesn't stretch all the way from house to house across the street and yards, two or three strips will.

Good point, I picture a low speed chase on the highway with keystone cops that can't catch up to the slow moving drunk. I suppose it isn't hard to plan ahead at those speeds.

"Oh, Ted look - it's a big buch of boxes in the middle of the road!"

and the Cross Plains officer forcibly took him out of his car and into custody.


Wanna bet he looks funny now? Not much of a sense of humor I can tell you that.

Gyrfalcon: Tahllunari: Drunk or not. How do you not dodge spike strips at 10 miles per hour? Nothing exactly sneaks up on you at that speed.

Because, being drunk, he probably figured they were the kind that as long as you were going s-l-o-w-l-y they would just lie down flat like the ones at the mall ticket gate.

Or they were the type you deploy by throwing them in front of the car. It folds up and has a string on one end. You throw it and yank and it'll stretch out.

I bet after it crossed the stop strips, the car lollygagged out of control for 300-400 centimeters.

First thing I thought of
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skyshooter: Yep looks pretty drunk here;

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Is that pic SFW?

/and wtf is wrong with their arms?

Obviously a local.

Tahllunari: Drunk or not. How do you not dodge spike strips at 10 miles per hour? Nothing exactly sneaks up on you at that speed.

The strip is laid out on the opposite side of the road and then yanked back towards the officer into the path of the vehicle. Impossible to swerve to avoid, but the officer needs fixed protection (a wall to dodge behind).

A car at 10mph is much harder to stop than one at 100mph - no PIT manouvres for this one.

zez: skyshooter: Yep looks pretty drunk here;

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//hot like the darkside of the moon

Is that pic SFW?

/and wtf is wrong with their arms?

Yes it's SFW, looks like someone pulled a watermark off using Microsoft Paint! I had not noticed until you pointed it out, I was trying to find a photo of David Gilmour drinking - this is what I GIS'd. My GIS skills seem to be weak.

lunkhed: Tahllunari: Drunk or not. How do you not dodge spike strips at 10 miles per hour? Nothing exactly sneaks up on you at that speed.

The strip is laid out on the opposite side of the road and then yanked back towards the officer into the path of the vehicle. Impossible to swerve to avoid, but the officer needs fixed protection (a wall to dodge behind).

A car at 10mph is much harder to stop than one at 100mph - no PIT manouvres for this one.

This, and even if you tried to run him off the road or box him in, that is far riskier than a spike-strip. The spikes will safely and slowly deflate the tires without escalating the chase.

This is a case of police acting damn near perfectly: safely bringing the situation to a halt without hurting anybody using one of the tools designed for exactly that. Yet we still have folks biatching. I understand how ignorant morons who watch too much lethal weapon think all cops should be Riggs and use martial arts to stop everyone without ever having to taser, but to apply that super-cop logic to a police department deploying spike strips? wow.

I got no problem with cops, and have really met nothing but cool ones. Have of course seen some uniformed thugs in videos, but really in my firsthand experience, they're OK.

/I have a problem with some of our laws. The dope war in particular.

How the hell did "wanting to feel good" ever become illegal? And not just "illegel" but "super illegal", where the cops drive a tank into you living room adn then blow you away. When we rolled up Osama Bin Laden, we weren't that invasive.

studebaker hoch: When we rolled up Osama Bin Laden, we weren't that invasive.

That was just professional courtesy from Federal employees to another Federal employee though.