• treadful@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Hasn’t this actually happened a few times in LA? The hellcats outrunning the helicopters, I mean.

    Shit, that experience might be worth the jail time.

    • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      There are police videos of it happening all over YouTube. I first saw a guy running from the law eastbound from Houston. The helicopter couldn’t go fast enough.

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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        19 hours ago

        That seems like the kind of problem that a radio and a spike belt were designed to solve.

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      21 hours ago

      At 180mph you only have to encounter one panicked bystander to cause a few deaths, including your own.

      Even the best driver in the world shares the road with everyone else.

      • captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        This reminds me of my parents explaning to me as a kid that even if you are the best driver in the world, everyone else is not and they cannot read your mind. So it would still be dangerous.