I don't have any answers on a better way to deal with cops. I was just commenting on what I felt as I watched this video.I know its best just do as you are told by the police. I also know that doesnt always make it right. I have had some bad dealings with the police, never any major trouble, but enough to know that they can be liars and power tripping dickheads who know they can getaway with almost anything. I think its sad that we all know that cops are bad news, and are instructed to learn how to deal with it.
"we know that if you run, cops will shoot you" is a good example, running is now a capitol offense that requires deadly force? Running is a bad idea, curling up in the fetal posistion and pissing youself is the safest action when the police approach. (and No, i dont really reccomend it). >> ^longde:
Except we know that if you run, the cops will shoot you.
I see the disconnect here. Let me explain. The people in this video trust the cops and the legal system much less than you. Their objective is to leave any police encounter alive, with limbs intact, and without some arbitrary felony thrown at them.
So, they're not hoping for the best, they are trying to prevent the worst.
For all your cynicism, I haven't heard any better ways from you to deal with cops. What advice would you give these people.>> ^csnel3:
I think we all watched the same video. I admit I question things more than normal.
This rang of a video that the authorities would like to play for all the children everyday at the beginning of school. They tell you you have rights, this is comforting, then they tell you the proper way to be arrested and or released, depending on what the police decide to do with you. Wrong or right, just follow these steps and the police will have an easier time with you, and maybe you will recieve some kind of repreve, or not.
I know that the police will lie to us, and do whatever they want, regardless of our rights. I also know they will lie to each other, the court system, and the media, to be able to do and say anything they want. For the most part, once they are in control of you, it doesnt matter what you say about your rights. The video even states that the cops hate people who say they have rights and be prepared for the shitstorm if you go down that road. It's better to shut-up and obey.
I always try to be polite and cooperate, even though I really dislike and distrust the police.
Sometimes I just feel, Rights or not, Run!! Serpintine!Serpintine!Serpintine! dont look back.go go go.
Or just do as this vid says and hope for the best.

>> ^entr0py:

Also, somehow getting your shit confiscated, being arrested, fined and kicked out of the country doesn't sound like an awesome drug vacation. I don't know how they thought it might increase tourism.


I'm wondering how many heroin addicts really go for european getaways? Most of the ones I see are sleeping under a bridge.

When I drove truck, I preferred the old winch and sling system for repo work. The damage caused to the vehicles were the responsibility of the cockroach delinquent owners. Gave me a good feeling when I could cause grief to some fucktard who bought a car beyond his means. You could tell the ones. Corvette driver living in low income housing or a basement suite, etc etc. Anyone who "lost their job" or suffered some sort of setback usually made a deal with the financing company to either keep their ride by paying interest only for a while, or got something cheaper. I would totally toast anyone who would try to hide their car or park it hard.

You won't find this sort of tech on anything other than repo or parking lot impound trucks. AAA trucks are designed for safety of the vehicle, not speed of getaway.

Actually, it's probably cheaper to bribe them not to shoot at trucks than it is to replace the convoys (supplies and equipment) that would otherwise be destroyed.

regarding the cousins/brothers/quasi-government businessmen - I don't think they are scared of criminal extortion or "bribing a foreign official" charge when they are in the business of murder. It's like expecting the driver of a getaway car for a bank robbery to pay a parking ticket...

Here's how we get out of the "crazy zone" - pull out. All troops, all contractors. Keep UAVs flying for recon, and send in missiles to blow up training camps.

Pulled over to the river to take a rest
Pulled out a pair of pliers and pulled the bullet out of my chest
Fear and loathing across the country listening to my 8 track
I Reached behind the seat and grabbed a Kool from the pack
Long distance from my girl and I'm talking on the cellular
She said that she was sorry and I said yeah the hell you were
Check my rear view mirror check the gold tooth display
Check out the odometer and I was on my way
Cause I'm a high plains drifter the best that you can get
A strapped shoplifter a pirate on cassette
Bust a Travis Bickle when I feel that I'm getting pushed
Don't step to me or you're gonna get mushed
I'm Doing 120 plowing over mail boxes
Radar detector to tell me where the cops is
Spend another night at the Motel 6
It's five dollars extra get the porno flicks
Concoct a black and tan in my brandy snifter
I'm a kleptomaniac K-Mart shoplifter
Cash flow getting low so I had to pull a job
I found a nice place to visit but a better place to rob
I left my car outside and the engine still revvin'
Time to get busy at 7-Eleven
Then I went inside to make my withdrawal
I saw what he had had but I had to take it all


Knucklehead deli tried to gyp me on the price
So I clocked him off the turban with the bag of ice
Cause I'm mellow like Jell-O cool like lemonade
I made my getaway and I thought that I had it made
I feel like Steve McQueen a former movie star
Look in my rearview mirror seen a police car
Ballantine quarts with the puzzle on the cap
I couldn't help but notice I was caught in a speed trap
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry on the run from Dirty Harry
Stash the cash in the dash but my gun I did carry
I'm seeing blue and red flashing deep in the night
I got my alibi straight and I pulled over to the right
Cop knocked on my window and said Boy where's the fire
you've got a mailbox on your bumper and a bald front tire
Outta the car longhair your goose is cooked
Read me my rights fingerprinted and booked
Makin' like a D.T. driving a Gran Fury
Wherever I hang my hat's my home and my past is kind of blurry
Every dog will have its day and mine will be in front of a jury
I'm the High Plains Drifter and I'm never in a hurry
Read me my rights as if I didn't know this
Threw me in the tank with the drunk called Otis
With his five o' clock shadow he smelled of 3-day old beer
My man turned to me and said why are you here?
I said I'm charming and dashing I'm rental car bashing
Phony paper passing at Nix Check Cashing
I went before the judge he sent me to the Brooklyn House of D.
He said you behave son or we'll throw away the key
Harry Houdini'd out the cuffs I kicked the screw in the knee
Took the bailiff's wallet and went straight to O.T.B.
I had a good feeling easy come easy go
I bet on one horse to win and another to show
And sure enough that knak came in
Brought my ticket to the window and collected my win
Broke into my new car with a wire coat hanger
Hot wired hot wheeled and Suzy is a headbanger

Those "Christian's" are outright lying. The bible does not condemn gamblers and drunkards to hell. I doesn't even mention gambling outright.

It does advise in several passages against drunkenness, but it is highly debateable if this means having a few budweisers on a weekend getaway. NOWHERE does it condemn drunkards to hell.

The point above is right; Vegas today is much more than gambling. People could conceivably go there, have a blast and never touch the casino floor.

http://lyricwiki.org/Interpol:C'Mere

It's way too late to be this locked inside ourselves
The trouble is that you're in love with someone else
It should be me
It should be me

Your sacred parts, your getaways
You come along on summer days
Tenderly
Tastefully

And so may we make time
To try find somebody else
This place is mine

You said today, you know exactly how I feel
I had my doubts, little girl, I'm in love with something real
It could be me that's changing

And so may we make time
To try and find somebody else who has a line

Now seasoned with health
Two lovers walk a lakeside mile
Try pleasing with stealth, rodeo
See what stands long ending fast

Oh how I love you in the evenings
When we are sleeping
We are sleeping
Oh you are sleeping

And so may we make time
To try and find somebody else who has a line

Now seasoned with health
Two lovers walk a lakeside mile
Try pleasing with stealth, rodeo
See what stands long, oh ending fast

>> ^ElJardinero:

You can use a car to commit a crime = Having a car is a crime.

You are making comparisons illogically. You can't justify it by poor analogies. The getaway driver in a bank heist didn't do anything, he just drove a car.

Stealing is still stealing. It's all about intent.

One half of me is always appalled by the recklessness of the getaway series but the little boy in me will always love seeing someone doing a wheelie at 180kph. That shit is amazing!

>> ^thepinky:
Don't get me wrong. I think she's fantastically gorgeous, funny, and smart, but I also think that she lives in "the bubble." Did you guys see the last episode of 30 Rock? It's about the bubble of encouragement and approval that beautiful people live in. I thought of that when I watched this video because both the studio and the VS audiences seem overly-enthusiastic, if you ask me.


I don't disagree with you that this lady is probably in her own bubble. But in this interview Letterman came across as being in even more of a bubble of his own, accentuated by his apparent ignorance of her, her life, and the culture from which she had come. After seeing the clip where her character decries the businessman's proposal of creating an Indian getaway where people would not have to deal with India, I can see how Letterman asking her if she would ever consider moving permanently to Hollywood could have been insulting to her. Hence her barbed reaction.

Now from what I have seen of Letterman, I would never describe him as an ignorant person. He usually comes across to me as intelligent, well read, witty, and generally a pleasant fellow. This may just have been a case of being (uncharacteristically) poorly prepped for the interview --an honest mistake. Letterman will probably not remembered this as one of his favorite interviews (even if it was fun to watch).

Then the animatronic John Wilkes Booth jumped from the stage and made his getaway.

>> ^Smugglarn:
You have spoiled it pretty well already, you fucking fuck.
Some of us do not live in the US and have not seen all the episodes yet.
You sir, are a douche of galactic proportions.
remove clip and douchebag


Then you don't want to know about Adama calling for volunteers for a one-way rescue mission of Hera, who was kidnapped by Boomer and taken to a Cylon colony ship ensconced near a naked singularity. Also, the doctor is Daniel, and Starbuck is his daughter. Adama finds out and blows Starbuck out an airlock and ends up crying his brains out, in the end deciding to abandon Galactica. But he doesn't realize that Kara was "special", and Boomer rescues her while she is making her getaway with Hera. I still don't understand why Starbuck's eyes and back were glowing red while she was floating in space, but I hope we'll find out this week. Oops! I probably should have put this at the beginning of my comment, but !!SPOILER ALERT!!

While I haven't seen the vast majority of the recent iterations in the 'franchise', I remember Getaway in Stockholm as a very entertaining motoring piece. Moreover, Time Is The Enemy has been (and will continue being) one of the top tracks of my lifetime ever since I got my hands on Cafe Del Mar, Volumen Nueve.
*promote

Dashcam video by Richardson police shows bullets from high-powered rifles flying through the window of a police cruiser, as the so-called Takeover Bandits made their getaway following a bank robbery on 11/04/2004.

Richardson officers responded to a call that the American First National Bank at 400 N. Greenville Ave. was being robbed. They caught up with the fleeing suspects and began a chase that took them north on Central Expressway and into Plano.

The video from one vehicle shows an officer attempting to follow the suspects' getaway car on to the highway when the suspect vehicle suddenly veers back onto the service road and unleashes a storm of bullets, shattering the rear window of their car and piercing the front of the police cruiser.

Another dashcam view from several minutes later in the chase shows the suspects, who by now had abandoned their first vehicle and stolen another, slamming into a pole at the intersection of Jupiter and Summit in East Plano.

The suspects jump out of the car, grab what appears to be some bags from the vehicle, and continue shooting at Richardson and Plano police officers.

Police: Lack of assault weapons results in disadvantage
Amazingly, no officers were shot; only one officer suffered minor injuries from flying glass.

One of the suspects in the robbery, 31-year-old Guadalupe Fajardo, turned himself in to authorities in the Panhandle town of Slayton, where he was apparently visiting relatives. Fajardo was transported back to North Texas Monday afternoon.

FBI is asking for the public's help to find the third member of the "takeover bandits." A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of 22-year-old Ramon Gavina.

Gavina's brother, Roberto Gavina, was arrested earlier during an FBI raided an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Gus Thomasson in Dallas.

Update: March 14, 2005

DALLAS -- The third member of a violent gang of bank robbers responsible for 60 armed robberies and a shootout with Richardson, Texas, police has been arrested in Mexico, police said Monday.

Ramone Gavina, 22, believed to be part of the "Takeover" Bandits, was taken into custody by Mexican authorities on a charge unrelated to the bank robberies in North Texas. Mexican police released Gavina before realizing he was wanted in the United States. Police later rearrested Gavina.

Police said Gavina and the other members of the Takeover Bandits escaped Richardson police Nov. 4 during a gun battle that disabled five police cars while fleeing from a bank robbery.

I, for one, welcome our new futurechair overlords.

If this does end up like the segway, though.....well, here's an example: the only people who have segways in my city are the policemen, who then use them IN THE SIDEWALK WITH PEDESTRIANS ON and make vague threats ("obstructing justice") at you if you don't move out of the way when you fail to hear them come up behind you. I think that our pedestrian patrol cops are a lot like daleks in that way: do a robbery, take some stairs, and you've made a clean getaway.