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Now that’s an amazing cop.
More cops should be like that! Makes excellent reading.
Obligatory:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
still funny as hell, though. xD
See the Canadian version here–www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
It’s Robocop!
Is your name john connor?
“The driver was totally freaked.”
Like, TOTALLY?
I heard similar joke years ago (2people in the car, stuck in mud, somebody tapping their window and so on)
Ditto.
I wonder if the cop heard that joke too and decided to convert it from urban ledgend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRPJh-LJq1o&feature=related
The paralels between these two stories is amazing!
But still, amazing cop!
“totally freaked”? sounds like a teen wrote it. Cute story, but fake.
Toatlly – wholly; entirely; completely.
It’s odd that you bother defining the word, and misspell it at the same time.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
This reminds me of this.
I wonder if it will work out this way?
http://www.explosm.net/comics/1785/
Cartoon that probably heard about this.
Its the 50 mph man! http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/waiting-for-the-bus
This is exactly what I thought of lmao.
me too!
^_^
That’s AWESOME. More troopers should be like that, if only to make it more exciting to see someone get pulled over.
You listen here, meow…
“Meow what is so damn funny ?”
Apparently more police officers are like that. I got a Darwin Awards book for Christmas and it had a nearly identical story in it, but set in Canada. Either this has become pretty widespread practice, or it’s become an urban legend, constantly changing it’s details.
I bet the officer knows Cyanide and Happiness.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
Sorry, funny story, but it’s just an urban legend.
Actually Snopes didn’t debunk it, just said it’s been around awhile. Which means a cop who had heard the story decided to enact it IRL.
Old joke: http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
It doesn’t seem to be true. While a funny story, snopes has not found any actual report similar to the story. The story has been repeated with the car in snow, mud, swamp, etc. It’s been placed in various US states, along with Canada.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
Hate to spoil the fun, but this is an urban legend. It’s been circulating since the 1970′s, according to snopes.com and my Urban Legends textbook.
and the well trained squad car never left the officer’s side
“AM” and “morning” should never be in the same sentence.
i wonder if a drunk “driving” charge would stick
Yup. If you are in the car drunk with the engine running (even in Park), you can get a DUI. My alcoholic uncle got that honor twice.
Nice he’s got a sick sense of humour. That’s one cop you know would be cool.
We don’t have a whole lot of people up here, so the LEOs have to find some way to amuse themselves
Its 7:42 am and I haven’t slept all night, but reading this totally made my day!
I heard of something like this before, except that the cop was a Canadian Mountie.
Sounds like an on going Urban Legend. But hasn’t been proven or disproven by Snopes yet http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
Oh please. This is so old and tired it has a Snopes page. http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
Yaps, an oldie.
here’s a history:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/outrun.asp
LMFAO!!!!! That’s great! I so see me doing something like that just to scare someone! Then again I’m that evil.
If your tires are spinning and your car is not moving then your speedometer would be at 0.
wrong. I’ve seen my speedometer go up to 50ish, while I’m standing still. On ice, the wheels spin, and the speedometer racks up, but you don’t go anywhere.
epic win is now just snopes.com in blog form?
lulz
In the version I heard, the car had ended up on top of a pipe, wheels hanging over the edges.
I can’t decide if this is real. Can someone tell me where I could verify it?
Read the previous comments. At least one of them links to the Snopes article for this.
1) The wheels that measure speed are almost never the drive wheels, unless you’re in a 4WD/AWD vehicle.
2) If the vehicle is snowbound, and cannot move, you cannot arrest the driver for DWI/DUI.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but even with just the keys turned on, there is an intent to drive, and therefore a DUI [if intoxicated of course]. The vehicle does NOT have to be moving or be in gear. It’s called preventative enforcement and is practiced regularly by police in an effort to stop morons who get behind the wheel when they shouldn’t be. For a situational reference, try thinking about “Public Intoxication” for a few seconds. Those people are not behind the wheel and are ‘arrested’ or detained for a period of time for them to ‘dry out.’
It IS an arrest-able offense, but a decent lawyer could get the sentence commuted or even dismissed because the vehicle was not in motion, and depending on the judges mood, the sentence may or may not be as harsh as a driver in motion. Aside from working in the law enforcement field, I have several bloodsucking fiends from beyond/friends who specialize in DUI’s and know a few officers who have arrested drivers, not mobilized, but in “OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE” or “it was on.”
But on the note of “urban legend,” whether or not it happened this time, all legends are based on facts somewhere or when.
tl;dr
This happened in Canada, check it out.