In fairness to the primary officer, she did put on her uniform hat.
In fairness to the primary officer, she did put on her uniform hat.
I assumed you knew it, I was just kidding about the technique used in the video. In my part of the world, I have never seen this technique used. It was painful to watch. I think I have seen some old videos, like 50s and 60s vintage, where something like this was done, but I am not even sure about that. Things might be different back East. In my area, many agencies have severely curtailed or even outright prohibit pursuits, especially with less than fully marked and equipped police vehicles, and I am not sure the guy's driving could have justified a PIT, especially on a crowded highway. Maybe this was her way of stopping without "pursuing" the car?Originally Posted by CleverNickname
One wonders if singing along and whistling to crappy music is some sort of stress-reduction technique for this particular individual.
Otherwise, it was almost a comical soundtrack for a deadly serious situation.
I mean, that's the reason you join the Highway units at big city PDs in the northeast. Gotta' be rocking that crush cap.
Jackboots with boot knives and antique leather riding jackets are the norm in some places as well, like Philly. No different than a cop in Texas in current times wearing a revolver with individually looped rounds...that's even worse, really. The firemen up in the northeast are big into tradition/espirit de corps as well, and it's common for guys to be wearing 100 year old leather firehats instead of modern helmets that are objectively way safer and more comfortable.
NYPD Highway Patrol:
Philadelphia PD Highway Patrol
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"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
Id get into it just for the leather.
Come, mother, come! For terror is thy name, death is in thy breath, and every shaking step destroys a world for e'er. Thou 'time', the all-destroyer! Come, O mother, come!
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"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
I mean, that's the reason you join the Highway units at big city PDs in the northeast. Gotta' be rocking that crush cap.
Jackboots with boot knives and antique leather riding jackets are the norm in some places as well, like Philly. No different than a cop in Texas in current times wearing a revolver with individually looped rounds...that's even worse, really. The firemen up in the northeast are big into tradition/espirit de corps as well, and it's common for guys to be wearing 100 year old leather firehats instead of modern helmets that are objectively way safer and more comfortable.
NYPD Highway Patrol:
Philadelphia PD Highway Patrol
Where have I seen that look before ?
And WTF is with the bystander cars and folks just sitting there? I would have driven off/unassed myself ASAP (I hope).
On that stretch of highway, going anywhere but straight ahead is pretty much a non-started. There are occasional exists and one or two pull offs for folks to look over the water, but other than that, it's cars/truck and metal barrier walls pretty much in a long linear kill zone.
Yeah I'm pretty sure one summer I worked the door at a bar where this was the uniform, actually.
The downside was everyone resisted a little bit, even if they had no intention of causing trouble; the upside was that they were definitely going to consent to having a chokehold applied if you had to drag them out. As long as you had plenty of hand sanitizer available...well, I've worked worse clubs than that.
This is a thread where I built a boat I designed and which I very occasionally update with accounts of using it, which is really fun as long as I'm not driving over logs and blowing up the outboard.
https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....ilding-a-skiff
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