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Have you read any of the posts in this thread!!!
There are a couple better solutions, mine being the best of course.
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1> Blocking on-ramps -- Even if the idea made any sense whatsoever, and it doesn't, this is Rural Georgia -- how many on and offramps do you think there are?
2> Spike Strips -- Have you ever had a blow-out at 100mph? Jesus, the things have been long considereed to be more unsafe than the PIT maneuver. That SUV would have rolled in a heartbeat and you would be sitting here questioning that move saying they should have PIT'd the guy.
Any other of your marvelous ideas you'd like to put forward?
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Yes, Clearing the roads and giving them room so they will slow down.
I dont know about you. But if I was running from the police for whatever reason, red and blues in my rearview would just make me want to drive faster.
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Yes, Clearing the roads and giving them room so they will slow down.
Okay, let's assume you could clear the roads -- even though as you saw in the video, people aren't quick to move aside at all and, if word spreads people actually come to chases.. but let's assume it happened.
You slow down... back off... the guy slows down...
Then what?
You plan on asking him nicely to pull over?
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The girl got what she asked for. The boy's life was in her hands not the cops. She is responsible for both deaths.
-Andy
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The problem with America is stupidity.
I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment
for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety
labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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Once they slow down the cops spike em' at a safe speed. If they are stubourn they drive on the rims for a while, but a car can only take so much. The car will make the decision for them. The car stops, cops swarm it, take the driver down, and save the passenger.  See isn't that better, no one died. It seems to me that somewhere during that 60 mile chase someone might have at least thought of doing something like that. HaHa HeHe
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Hi everyone, don't mean to change the subject, but what happened to the guy that got his head chopped off. wasn't that what this thread was about?
I mean the people in the SUV weren't even drinking..
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Once they slow down the cops spike em' at a safe speed. If they are stubourn they drive on the rims for a while, but a car can only take so much. The car will make the decision for them. The car stops, cops swarm it, take the driver down, and save the passenger.
See isn't that better, no one died.
It seems to me that somewhere during that 60 mile chase someone might have at least thought of doing something like that.
I'm sure that someone did think of that. Any cop would rather use a spike strtip if possible than risk his own life conducting a PIT maneuver. It was probably discarded with good reason, like perhaps the thought that they'd not slow down enough to matter.
I cruise at 85mph -- and that's regular everyday speed, and I'm far from alone at that speed. These guys were going over 100 -- so even if they were to "slow down", you're talking maybe 15mph slower. They certainly wouldn't go any slower than 85-95mph -- they might not have red and blues in their face, but the cops are still there and they're still trying to get away. A blow-out at that speed in any car, particularly an SUV, is still a likely fatal accident.
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Hi everyone, don't mean to change the subject, but what happened to the guy that got his head chopped off. wasn't that what this thread was about?
Last I heard he was dead.
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Originally posted by sigma:
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Hi everyone, don't mean to change the subject, but what happened to the guy that got his head chopped off. wasn't that what this thread was about?
Last I heard he was dead.
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