http://www.charlotteobserver.com/loc...ry/641134.html

 

Well - two things -

1) Nice to know the Charger with the normal 5.7 hemi will run that fast without blowing up.

2) How did the other trooper catch him, and what was he driving?

 

Hemis is no slouch, the 5.7L LX's are known to run up to 160+ mph, with the SRT-8's at almost 180 mph.

MikeyB

 

Its nice to see an officer held accountable for his actions.

 

We had a guy resign over a similar deal. There is dash cam footage in the link. With dash cams, gps and growing unpopularity I don't understand why you would risk it on 99.9% of calls.

http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stori....6f219ec0.html

 

Glad to see them held accountable. LEOs running hot w/o their lights on is one of my pet peeves. I know that there are instances when safety may dictate not running lights but their liability goes way up in those circumstances in my opinion.

 

thats annoying, but the LEOs running like that OUT OF THEIR STATE (Crawford County PD) really burns my hide...

 

Some of the video I have made trying to run up the interstate code 3 would crack you up. Everybody I get behind has their own best solution for why I'm coming up behind them, some panic and EMERGENCY stop in whatever lane of 65 mph road they are in, some swerve, some try and run at the next exit, some go right without looking.

How many that will blast the police for driving to fast would let the guy go in Dallas on the way to see his MIL even though he had no emergency lighting?

 

everybody messes up

 

That is the point.

 

I cannot think of one reason in the world for any cop to drive that fast. Not one. Too much can go wrong and hurt or kill too many people.

 

Depends on the situation. This is obviously not one of them. There have been times where it's necessary but not very often. Of course you can't think of a single reason. You apparently have no experience in this line of work, so I'll leave it at that.

 

In good humor I'd suggest the reason you never went 140 when you started was the cars offered.

Come on Bearwhiz get past not knowing me, it is a little funny!

 

I can come up with a few reasons for an officer to be doing 130 on the interstate.
Then again, I can come up with a few reasons why anyone would be doing 130. If Americans has decent lane discipline, we wouldn't have a problem with people doing 130.
the problem I have with officers doing 130 is when they are doing it just because they can. Like when an officer turns on his lights so he can take a left turn on a red light just to turn them off after the turn and make a right into the station.

 

Then again, as a fellow Oklahoma resident, I must point out that decent lane discipline is extremely hard to maintain with some of the road conditions that we have at so many places here.

I just made several trips across I-40 from Henryetta to Sallisaw and the east-bound right lane is so rough in some places that I'll drive in the left lane if there is no traffic close behind me. I do try to watch and move right if I see approaching traffic but any LEO running 130 would probably run up on me faster than I'd notice unless he was running with lights on. I hate to do it (and make a practice not to do it) but my truck is too valuable to me to just beat it to death on the roads that we pay for and they don't maintain.

Now back to your previously scheduled rant.