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[HullBreach]

Nice!

Man I cant wait for the day when some dude who does D1 or Formula D competitions gets chased, that'll make for some awesome footage.

For those of you who aren't motorheads, those are drifting leagues.

[CanRay]

Frag.

Now I can't dispute how "Easy" it is to recover from a PIT manouver.

[Cthulhudreams]

If it's the clip i think it is, the guy was a professional stunt driver.

[Fix-it]

Nice!

Man I cant wait for the day when some dude who does D1 or Formula D competitions gets chased, that'll make for some awesome footage.

For those of you who aren't motorheads, those are drifting leagues.

bah. try a Rally or Off road driver. those guys have some serious skills.

[DocTaotsu]

hehe... that was amusing. I'm glad a lot of police departments have suspended high speed chases though, seems like an awful lot of trouble to get one guy in a vehicle that can very easily become and airborne weapon.

[Critias]

So why blame the cops for that fact, instead of the criminal who (a) did something to get chased for, (b) then instigated the high speed chase? I don't think flooring it should be a get out of jail free card.

[DocTaotsu]

Well the phrase "Cure is worse than the disease" comes to mind. Ending a bad situation by pushing a car into oncoming freeway traffic is not my idea of a very effective policy of keeping the peace.

Also, who said they get out of jail free? If reporters can follow them than I tend to think that FLIR mounted police helo's can probably do a reasonable job as well.

[Cthulhudreams]

Australia suspended high speed chases if there is the potential of injuring civilians and instead switches to helicopters, roadspikes and barriers.

Edit: Yeah, the actual defination is something like the threat to the public is greater if the chase is continued than abandoned, so it's higher if chasing an armed offended.

[Fuchs]

We use road blocks usually, and cop cars don't drive too fast after perps (unless there's a serious danger for others like a fleeing murderer or so).

Is it really true that cops have to stop you to write a ticket too in the US? And simply taking a picture of your car with license plate with a radar camera is not enough?

[DocTaotsu]

You know.. that's an interesting question. You can get tickets from running red lights and speeding if the right all seeing eyes see you.

But cops still pull people over. Out of habit maybe?

[Method]

I'm sure it varies widely among jurisdictions.

[Critias]

I wouldn't say it's "habit" so much as "because during a manual stop the potential exists for further violations to be unearthed." An awful lot of drug arrests, drunk driving arrests, etc, start as a routine traffic stop. An awful lot of officer fatalities start that way, too, though. So, in my book, it's a checkmark in the "brave enough to do the job, even if a fancy camera can handle the job instead" category, for the cops still out there stopping folks when they don't have to.

[DocTaotsu]

Ah did forget about the other big reasons for traffic stops. I do recall a great deal of serious criminals getting had out for running a red light or not having a working left turn signal.

Anyone sprung this sort of thing on their runners? Just to make em sweat?

[Fortune]

Anyone sprung this sort of thing on their runners? Just to make em sweat?

Yep. Much fun! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Shiloh]

"PIT" is, if the cop shows from left-pondia that we get over here in Airstrip One are to be believed, stands, supposedly for "Precision Immobilisation Technique". It is to laugh. What the UK motorway cops do is box the car being chased. One car gets ahead and gets in the runner's way at a distance of about a foot. Another car comes from behind and boxes it in so it can't brake and get any distance. Then both police drivers brake hard and steer to keep the evading vehicle between them. *That*'s precision. If there are three cars available, they'll box the fleeing vehicle against the central barrier on a motorway, too.

I suppose the chances of a pursued car shooting at surrounding cops is higher over there, but don't see a great deal of additional security in just clipping a wing.

[hobgoblin]

its as if it was taken straight out of a GTA game...

[CanRay]

Yeah, I love how the cops "Stopped performing High Speed Persuits" in a lot of areas.

Like they did mine.

Which doesn't explain how a cop car hit a minivan with a soccer team and the soccer mom at 90 km/h in the neighbourhood next to the Downtown core a year after they "Stopped".

But that's just the cops from my home town...

[nezumi]

Is it really true that cops have to stop you to write a ticket too in the US? And simply taking a picture of your car with license plate with a radar camera is not enough?

Yeah, we generally require the cop verify who the driver is, but it varies from state to state. In Maryland, they don't charge you with speeding as such, but with something stupid like failing to control your car. So if you're in someone else's car, or the company car, the bill gets sent to the owner, not to you. In DC, they don't believe their part of the United States, except wherein they get to complain about stuff, so they just charge the driver with whatever they want.

[Zak]

But seriously, why are the police cars endangering the traffic by bumping into his car in the first place?
Is that for the pure entertainment value for the media?

I never got that part of US culture.

[CanRay]

Because "BOY HOWDY AIN'T IT FUN??? Like dem Dukes Show!"

Northern Ontarian cops aren't that much better.

[Jhaiisiin]

It's because bumping the car like that puts them out of control, and out of commission. You'll note that each time the cops nailed that mustang, it was when there weren't any other cars around. They usually do their damnedest to bump the vehicle in a way that will send it crashing *away* from other vehicles. The vehicles behind them would have seen what was going on and slowed/stopped with plenty of room. It's far less dangerous than shooting out tires or just waiting for the guy to crash.

Plus, it's good for the media. Win-Win!

[hobgoblin]

makes me think of lone star having their own tv crews and do their damnedest to look good while recording...

[CanRay]

makes me think of lone star having their own tv crews and do their damnedest to look good while recording...

And you better bet that Ares-affiliated news stations are trying their darnedest to play the ones where the Star look like idiots!

It's a ratings game in a lot of ways!

After all, things like this is how Desert Wars, Combat Cycle, and Urban Brawl started, and became big money!

This post brought to you by the Winnipeg Black Devils, who are the odds on favourite this year for Light Infantry Skirmishing at Desert Wars!

[Aaron]

makes me think of lone star having their own tv crews and do their damnedest to look good while recording...

"Hey, Janice, shooting the guy in the leg after he surrendered was pretty brutal."

"I don't care. We can fix it in post."