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Originally posted by bigMoneyRacing:
Those that run from the cops and put INNOCENTS in danger by their actions deserve to be taken out.
I don't totally disagree with you on this, BUT the 17 yr old passenger really didn't have a huge choice.
I would do a ride along with my local police, but they all keep getting arrested, four in the last month. Maybe I could ride along with your local police. 
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So you wuld rather mindlessly ram them off the road into a tree and KILL them than try to make it work.
There is nothing "mindless" about doing a PIT at 100+. You don't just casually run into a car at 100mph. That cop risked is own life to stop them.
I'm sure the cops tried to think of any number of things before risking their own lives and PITing a car at that speed -- they did let the chase continue for 60 miles didn't they? What do you think they were doing all that time? Drawing straws on who would get to do it?
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WHO CARES if it screws up traffic as long as you safe a life.
Did I say anything about traffic? No, I said you're impossible idea would likely cause additional accidents.
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Weather they are guilty or innocent these are still peoples lives we are talking about.
Yeah, and every second they're on the road they risk dozens more lives. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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After all isn't that what cops are for, TO SAVE LIVES.
And, as far as I'm concerned, those cops probably saved the lives of dozens of innocent people on the road by taking the lives of 2 (or at least 1) guilty ones.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Thanks for putting words in my mouth. AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN.
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Ooo a couple o' fender benders from dumbasses tryin to get off an on ramp.
After 60 miles it most likely had media coverage anyway and probably picked up a news chopper. People would quickly figure out what was going on and take another route.
Plus at those speeds a normal cop will back off and let a chopper follow so they slow down and stop driving like idiots.
So one could say that the police were endangering lives by continuing the chase after after it got dangerous.
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Originally posted by SVT24:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Thanks for putting words in my mouth. AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN.
Now thanks for cutting off part of the quote.  The again again again went with this:
The cops were not completely wrong for their action. I just think other methods should have been tried first.
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Ooo a couple o' fender benders from dumbasses tryin to get off an on ramp.
How does one get "off an on-ramp" when you're not getting into the freeway? I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, it's just you've said that three times now and it's kind of confusing exatly what you mean.
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After 60 miles it most likely had media coverage anyway and probably picked up a news chopper. People would quickly figure out what was going on and take another route.
You obviously haven't been around any areas with chases -- people flock to them.
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Plus at those speeds a normal cop will back off and let a chopper follow so they slow down and stop driving like idiots.
I'm sure every precint in rural Georgia has a chopper at their disposal.
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So one could say that the police were endangering lives by continuing the chase after after it got dangerous.
Well, [censored], there's the ticket. Next time I get pulled over I'll just go 100mph. Cops can't chase me after that because that's "dangerous"!
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After 60 miles it most likely had media coverage anyway and probably picked up a news chopper. People would quickly figure out what was going on and take another route.
You obviously haven't been around any areas with chases -- people flock to them.
Exactly what I was going to say. I mean, alot of the chases I have seen on tv have people standing on the side of the road and they are cheering the perps on.
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I think you are being a smart a*s. Now you are just arguing for the sake of arguing. Just accept that their lives could have been saved, or not taken, however you want to look at it. Guily or not, taking a life is unexeptable and always avoidable.
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Now you are just arguing for the sake of arguing.
No, I'm arguing because you're wrong and obviously very ignorant of how the police operate, how a high-speed chase works, and lack the basic common sense to determine when some "plan" is feasible or not.
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Just accept that their lives could have been saved, or not taken, however you want to look at it.
Sure they could have been saved -- they could have let them go. What the hell would that have done? It's because cops sometimes let people go that people run in the first place -- they think they can get away.
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Guily or not, taking a life is unexeptable and always avoidable.
Save the bleeding-heart crap for someone who gives a [censored].
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Originally posted by Renee:
Exactly what I was going to say. I mean, alot of the chases I have seen on tv have people standing on the side of the road and they are cheering the perps on.
The OJ chase had people on the expressway overpass holding signs up the whole way!
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Guily or not, taking a life is unexeptable and always avoidable.
Unexceptable (spelled right)? Yes
Always avoidable? Doubtful. And if so, at what expense? Even more people dieing later?
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