good driver

Nice of the plod to punt him into a spin right in front of an HGV...

Then again atop a flyover....

Think I would have been tempted to stamp on the brakes and let mr plod go flying past.

I bet it wont be included in Alistair Stewart's 'Police camera action'.

I have to wonder if that's for real, or something that's been mocked up.

Fishtailing a car like that is (AIUI) normally done in conjunction with a second patrol car behind to box in the target vehicle. Performing the manuever in the middle of a highway like that strikes me as both pointless and rather reckless.

Mike Quin ( snipped-for-privacy@elite.uk.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It's an American cop. Of COURSE it's pointless and reckless.

Don't think so. Tyre marks, smoke, everything is there. Apparently filmed from a news helicopter.

The message from Mike Quin contains these words:

Well, they are American.

I so wanted it to go over the side there, there wasn't much of a barrier. And I'm wondering how many more times they spun him on the other road before stopping him.

Steve

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember johannes saying something like:

It's been on "Whirls Vilest Peas Wideos", or something similar, with Sheriff Rump Pimplemyer.

Would that be the same Alistair Stewart who got banned from driving himself after his self-sanctimonious bastard attitude on TV....

He almost deserves to get away (maybe he does deserve to get away). I thought it a pity after he got spun dow the bank onto the other road that he didn't try to get away there.

A powerful 4x4 can outrun the Ford Crown Victoria police cars over rough terrain. I've actually looked though the windows of one of those, the rear seat was non-existent, there was just a steel cage. It looked like a mobile prison cell...