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Subject: [OM] Re: Cell phones/Italy, as far OT as possible
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:22:48 -0400
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson wrote the brief on this approach many years ago. 
'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' if memory serves.

ScottGee1

On 6/22/05, R. Jackson <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> April is a 911 supervisor. The supervisor has to authorize pursuits.
> High-speed chases frequently have to be authorized by a sworn
> official. All of that takes time. It didn't used to be that way, but
> people are so litigious anymore that you need a record of when and
> why the use of high-speed interception tactics were authorized in
> case there's an accident. Anyway, as goofy as it sounds, most
> pursuits are called off as soon as the speed passes 90 mph. They
> figure that they have a vehicle description and they'll pick the perp
> up again when it's not as great a hazard to the public. So (and I'm
> not endorsing this...heh...) the one nearly surefire way to get out
> of a speeding ticket is to put the pedal to the floor. ;-)
> 
> Of course, that doesn't always work out. Sometimes the deputies don't
> properly explain the conditions of the pursuit (though that's getting
> harder and harder to do now that the location and speed of each
> cruiser is identified on the operator's screens) and they just "go
> get the bad guy." We had some "Blue Rage" cases here a couple of
> years ago, the worst of which involved a high-speed pursuit where the
> deputy finally ran the perp off the road, emptied a clip into the
> driver, reloaded and emptied another clip into him. They called that
> a "non-standard procedure." ;-)
> 
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Willie Wonka wrote:
> 
> > You can, if you drive really fast...:)
> > There was a famous case in Bulgaria in the early 80's. The camera
> > "cought" someone going 160km/h in a 40km/h speed zone...The picture
> > came out slightly blurred, just enough for the number on the
> > licence plate to be illegible.
> > Boris
> >
> 
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