Rick Olson is a contributor to these pages, though not for some time. Other priorities, and as I always say, if it’s not fun, then do something else. But he has hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on GraniteGrok, and, as I may have said before, we spend time together.
Rick is a former Marine and was a County Sheriff in New Hampshire, and he likes to watch police pursuit videos on YouTube TV. I don’t do that on my own time, but it’s fun to watch them on his, and one thing is very clear. People living in some of these southern states appear underinformed about what their State Police do when you try to evade them in a vehicle.
Your safety is not their biggest concern, and they don’t f around. If you broke the law, they’re coming for you.
We don’t see that so much in the woke northeast unless you say Amen in an Executive Council meeting. Pursuit happens, but not as aggressively as, say, Arkansas or Georgia, which brings me to ‘How it’s done.”
We’ve heard a lot recently about “teen takeovers” and how little blue city mayors like those in Chicago and Washington, D.C., are doing about them. One D.C. councilwoman argued that curfews were “dangerous” because they increased the chance of these teens interacting with big bad law enforcement. That’s the whole idea. Stay home, and the police will leave you alone.
We’ve also been seeing street takeovers, in which young people get together to shut down a road so they can do burnouts with their cars. Fox News reported earlier this week that these morons had shut down I-75 in Florida, a state that isn’t having that.
The PIT maneuver. The Precision Immobilization Technique. It’s why cop cars have those crash bars on the front. You know, just in case you need to hit something hard.
Standard operating procedure in many a southern state and appreciated by everyone but the recipient, who should have known that’d be how it ended.
Him with a gun in his face and then handcuffs, workin ‘ out where he went wrong in the back of a police cruiser.
A win for public order and a lesson going viral on the internet, but that won’t stop the next good ol’ boy from trying it. After all, someone has to see if they can get away with it.
Now, if we could get police cars with cowcatchers (like the trains in the old westerns) to deal with the wackos who like to block highways. Maybe make those legal aftermarket attachments to passenger vehicles while you’re at it.
