“I didn’t know an Escort could go that fast,” he said. “Not the best escape vehicle you would think.” [More]You're right. I would think that.
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Friday, December 24, 2010
We're the Only Ones Eluded Enough
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I wouldn't think so either, but maybe he had it souped up. Another thing to remember is that there isn't much traffic out here... so he had a lot more room to work with than anyone in a city.
Expired license plates... yep, pretty much high crime in Gillette. :)
"took off when another officer showed up with a drug-sniffing dog."
Standard procedure for expired tags?
Well, maybe now it is.
Fortunately no one was killed this time.
Last week a "red-light runner" (mobile soft-X-ray trucks are out there, remember) was stopped with 500 pounds of marijuana in his trunk.
What part of "Prohibition" do they not understand, huh?
Escort guy might have only had a half-full baggie. A bust is a bust. Worth running and endangering the whole area. Worth chasing and endangering the whole area.
Not in my name. I've told 'em.
Souped-up? Souped-up? I haven't heard that since the sixties. OMG, Mama Liberty, now I gotta clean up my screen. I once drove a borrowed Triumph motorcycle 140 mph, just to see how fast it would go.
The article was not clear on how or why the pursuit ended. If they called off the pursuit because they felt it was too dangerous then I would have to say that these "only ones" made the right call.
We're not much into high speed chases out here.
And yes, Sean, I often date myself badly that way! I was 14 in 1960 - in So. Calif... and the coolest guys had their cars "souped-up" for sure. They "cruised" the streets on the weekends, and even had informal "drag races" outside of town.
As long as they didn't kill anyone, nobody cared.
Long ago... and in another world.
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