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Originally posted by Red92784:
It seems to me that somewhere during that 60 mile chase someone might have at least thought of doing something like that.
It seems to me that somewhere during that 60 mile chase THE DRIVER might have at least thought she wasn't going to get away and should pull over.
How far must law enforcement officers go just to cater to the criminal? Maybe next time they should offer a mid-chase refuelling and bathroom break? You probably think they should buy the family a new Pathfinder 
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Originally posted by Red92784:
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.
lol, my oh my.....
So, let me get this straight... the media choppers suddenly sprout police officers, everyone is listening to the same radio station and decides to be a good little citizen and get out of the way of this dangerous chase, and hey, we should just let people run if they want to, they were too busy to go to jail today anyway... yikes.
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Ok, I just have to add fuel to this fire. 
Originally posted by Red92784:
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.
Lets say that everything went according to plan. The freeway was magically cleared, there were no bystanders cheering on the driver, the cops backed off knowing that there ware troopers with spike strips (I gave you two just so we know the tires will blowout) and just for fun, lets add a big roadblock to that so even if the spike strips dont work the truck is going to slam into (insert your favorite heavy objects here). The cops lay the spike strips, the do thier job and blowout all four tires on the Pathfinder. The SUV's tires deflate and the truck begins losing speed....
....the driver loses control and veers across the median slamming into oncoming traffic killing the SUV's occupants plus the occupants of multiple other vehicles because of the over 140 mph collision speed.
Everything worked but that one variable is a [censored] isnt it.  
On a sidenote part of that situation just happened here. A car full of teenage boys was having a road rage incident with a minivan. The minivan hit the brakes, the driver hit his brakes and tried to steer around the van. His passenger, for some reason, decided that this would be a good time to pull the e-brake. The car spun out, cleared the median and killed a motorcyclist. So, just like the passenger in the SUV, the lives of the (relatively innocent) teenagers in that car are now ruined. And, as I just found out, the biker's obiturary is in todays paper. He left behind his wife, children and job as an EMT. So not only did the passenger's stupidity kill a person, it killed a person who was specifically trained to save peoples lives. 
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Originally posted by CRZYDRVR:
How drunk do you have to be to leave a headless body in your truck??
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I thought spike strips contained many small hollow break away tips that slowly deflating the tires rather than blow them out....
On I-16 near where I'm going to school, they have like those train track crossing kinda gates on a bunch of the exits/entrances. Not sure if they're supposed to be used for chases or what.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
I thought spike strips contained many small hollow break away tips that slowly deflating the tires rather than blow them out....
On I-16 near where I'm going to school, they have like those train track crossing kinda gates on a bunch of the exits/entrances. Not sure if they're supposed to be used for chases or what.
You need to watch WORLD'S WILDEST POLICE VIDEOS a little more. They show the use of spike strips and the PIT alot on that show. You will see that the spikes usually blow the tires out. I saw one the other day where the tires blew with the spikes and immediately flew off the truck at the cops.
By the way, the show is on Spike TV(the former TNN) at 7pm EST Monday through Friday. Check it out, it shows you exactly what the cops have to deal with.
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I need to watch TV more, right..... There was a recent link, I believe on another forum to a video they showed on there of a BMW M3 that was supposedly stolen and that it eventually broke down and that's how they caught it. In actuallity the 15 yr old took his dad's car, and he outran the cops once he made the camaro cruiser crash and he made it home, but his dad turned him in. You can see in the video of the supposed part where he "breaks down" that the time is actually earlier than other parts of the chase they show, and he was actually just slowing to do a u-turn. So, no, I'm not gonna watch that program to see how things really are.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
So, no, I'm not gonna watch that program to see how things really are.
Cuz it's easy to fake someone running over spike strips.
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Originally posted by PlatoSVT:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
So, no, I'm not gonna watch that program to see how things really are.
Cuz it's easy to fake someone running over spike strips.
Yes and their passenger should die because they are in the vehicle. 
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I don't think anyone here is saying the passenger SHOULD have died. Just that it's an acceptable casualty due to the driver's actions, and what could've resulted to truely INNOCENT people.
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