Once you have grand theft auto and assault with a deadly weapon, what's a little resisting arrest and speeding? Even with a 10% chance of escape, it's still the smart thing to do.

How is that ever the smart thing to do?

>> ^dgandhi:
Once you have grand theft auto and assault with a deadly weapon, what's a little resisting arrest and speeding? Even with a 10% chance of escape, it's still the smart thing to do.


Thats just plain retarded.

Real life *actionpack. Interesting use of the word "offender". I mean, there's the whole innocent until proven guilty rule, but once you're in that situation, there's really no way to claim innocence, eh?

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>> ^dgandhi:
Once you have grand theft auto and assault with a deadly weapon, what's a little resisting arrest and speeding? Even with a 10% chance of escape, it's still the smart thing to do.

oh. except for that whole vehicular manslaughter part, seeing as how if you're going to cut across lawns in a residential area on a high-speed chase, you've already made your peace with the high potential for that outcome.

let's hope it was a school day, eh?

Officer Martinez: "Then someone got on the radio and suggested we stop the chase and just let the helicopter follow him home, but we knew the cameras were rolling. That and the thrill of the chase far out-weighed the risk of death to innocent bystanders..."

^WTF are you talking about?

Just saying the cops risk lives by chasing these maniacs in cars when they could just calmly follow him with the helicopter until he stops, then tell the ground where he went.

only problem with that, is a chopper is amazingly expensive to keep in the air, and cannot follow for as long as you'd think before having to refuel.

also, it's very easy to lose a chopper (i.e: enter a multi-story carpark that joins a shopping center). But hard to lose one that can spot you a mile away as the only car speeding

... and to be fair, i dont think that door touched him. he swerved to dodge it and lost his footing

dghandi, another member sent this out to me, and all I can do is scratch my head.

dghandi: "Once you have grand theft auto and assault with a deadly weapon, what's a little resisting arrest and speeding? Even with a 10% chance of escape, it's still the smart thing to do."

That's just days after he tried to lecture everyone on how "socially responsible" he is, and how no one needs police.
And your previous comment from "Officer Rivieri at it again":

"I do, I fail to see the absurdity of being responsible. I can not tell you how many times I have had people ask me "you're an anarchist, why are you driving the speed limit?". The answer is simple I have not externalized my responsibility to some state-sanctioned father figure."


-Still scratching-

Since I've been dissed in abstentia, I suppose I should make my case.

If you are desperate enough to threaten somebody with a weapon and take their car, you are doing it for a reason, and you are not planning to get caught, or else that reason, whatever it is, goes out the window.

Wanting something bad enough to take the leap into grand-theft and assault you have created a situation in which you have no choice which we might describe as good. Even in such a situation some actions are smarter then others, stopping and turning yourself in at this point is not smart, it might be "good" from in a larger social context, but you already through that out the window.

So put yourself in his place, imagine that you are quantum-leaped into his body mid chase, and are fully aware of the situation. You are looking down many years of jail, unless you get away. Trying to get away is the only realistic option.

The high speed chase, as Enzoblue pointed out, is the choice of the police. It's safer, cheaper, more effective, to just blockade the roads, that's why you have lots of cops with radios. This macho take-him-down crap endangers people. The cops KNOW he is going to run, in this situation it's the only smart thing for him to do.

MG: I do think it's reasonable to expect responsible behavior, and by and large we get it. Watch the video again, we have one guy who stole something, and a pack of cops who are endangering lives by chasing him down at high speed. If that's my choice I'll take my chances with the former.

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