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Suspect with bong built into his car dashboard is arrested for the 98th time after high speed chase
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Dumbass cop was about to pitt maneuver this truck into an innocent car.
Yeah, high speed chases are monumentally stupid. Just use the radio to set up a road block.
Or, as is commonly done elsewhere, get their plates and a photo, and drop by their house later (unless they're an active threat to public safety of course).
This is literally the SOP in a lot of other countries: You don't chase someone in a vehicle unless you absolutely have to. You rather just identify them and apprehend them at a later point.
Guy had 97 priors including DUIs. Doubtful that the truck had a valid registration/license plate with a traceable address.
I used to disc golf with a dude who had multiple DUIs and finally went to jail for it for 18 months. The fucking day he got out he bought a cheap used car, slapped an old out-of-state license plate on it, and went right back to driving around drunk as shit.
Hence the photo, which should make it pretty easy to figure out who the guy is when he's already registered in the system. Once you know who he is you quickly find out where he's living, because again, the guy has 97 priors, so the cops should have a solid database on where he tends to reside and who he knows.
That's absolutely horrendous... hope he gets caught again before he kills someone...
Besides that: That could quickly be a situation where whoever is apprehending him recognises that he's drunk-driving and that he's a big enough threat to the public to warrant chasing him down instead of letting him go and apprehending him later.
Later that evening at the cars registered address...
Cops bang on door at 3am, groggy the homeowner tries to figure out what's going on. 3am!?, what's going on? Better grab my gun in case it's someone trying to break in. Goes to the door and opens it, immediately gets blasted by the cops. The wife comes out screaming so they tase her and then calmly let her know they saw their stolen vehicle earlier so this needed to happen.
Or, hear me out: The cops that are well enough educated and trained to recognise that it's safer to just track down the guy later will also be well enough educated and trained to not do that. Because doing that would be stupid, and the whole point here is that you can and should select and train people with a monopoly on violence to not do stupid shit that gets people killed.
i mean my experience is they only do shit at 3am when they're trying to arrest people who they expect to be armed and trying to escape. if they're just doing ticket service, they stop by at dinnertime because it embarrasses you in front of the neighbors.
Haha! You fell into the trap of my nuclear powered hyper bike! I never have to stop! Bwahahaha! Man, I gotta take a dump tho, fr.
You don't have a toilet built into that thing?
Too much aerodynamic drag.
just put a hole in the seat with some electric scissors (so i guess nuclear powered snippers) to slice off dingleberries. just, uh, if you've got some bait and tackle and don't want the at-home forcefemming don't forget to grab your gaff
Thank god I am not the only one to immediately catch that. What that pig attempted was FUCKING DANGEROUS.
And then another pig on the radio is heard giving clear instructions to not attempt unless below 70(mph). Still with plenty of other vehicles on the roads...
How else you going to live out your badass road warrior fantasies??
Fucken dunce..