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November 13, 2007
High Speed Pursuit on the 138 East
One thing that separates LA from the rest of the world are our televised high-speed vehicle pursuits.
Glendale PD tried to pull over a man in a white pickup truck a little over an ago. The driver peaced-out and floored it north onto the 5 freeway. Here we are now at 2:27 pm and KCAL's SKY9 is all over it.
Speeds have reached above 100 miles per hour.
What's most interesting is that the Glendale PD and the CHP have had no problem coming very close to the bumper of the pickup truck.
As the pursuit heads toward Gorman the freeway seems wide open which means that this chase could last well past the Grapevine.
A spike strip is being set up in about 3-4 miles in Quail Lake, KCAL is reporting.
Update: The suspect, may have heard about the strip and has decided to head to the Antelope Valley via the 138 Eastbound headed toward Lancaster. Hello two-lane roads and static for poor Sky9.
CBS2.com is now streaming the coverage, or you can flip on your tv.
Update 2: the gentleman ran out of gas, pulled over on the side of the road, was arrested and is now in the back of a police cruiser.
When the chase was on the 5 near Castaic
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he just rolls to a stop and gives up peacefully?! what the hell? that was the most anti-climatic high speed chase i ever saw.
He went through all of that for nothing.
idtiot!
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"One thing that separates LA from the rest of the world are our televised high-speed vehicle pursuits."
Not true. Many other areas of the U.S. have televised high-speed vehicle pursuits.
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many? dont make me reverse anal copyedit snark your bs bro
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Man I wish we could just shoot people for doing that. 1 bullet end of story.
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Many = San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Tucson, Vegas, St Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Miami etc etc etc and this is just in the u.s. (you said "world.")
What in god's name would make you think this was a phenomenon exclusive to Los Angeles?
A simple google news search will prove otherwise.
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torrmoz,
put away your dreams of applying to be either a copy editor and/or a troll on this site.
the two car chases that were lucky enough to make air in el paso does not compare to what we do here in LA, nor do the two in oklahoma city, or the one in austin, etc.
we know youre lonely.
we know you want attention.
there's a statement for people like you: GYOFB.
- the management.
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There may be high-speed chases in other parts of the country, but LA's chases are different. We've seen everything from OJ's crawl to the guy blowing his brains out on the 105 overpass. It's perverse but it's where reality TV meets the old cops & robbers games we played growing up. LA's unique complex road system makes our freeway chases the most dynamic on TV... it's FAN-tastic!
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getting my own blog, yeah, I should try that. that could really catch on.
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Woah, Tony! I'm usually on your side against trolls and snarky commenters but this guy wasn't at all snarky and your response seems unnecessarily harsh.
All he said was that other cities do televise them (I'm from Houston and I gotta say that when I moved here, everyone kept telling me there were all these chases on TV, but I've never felt that there were more here than there.)
Be a little nicer to the commenters that *aren't* rude in the beginning and more of us will back you up when you go after the truly nasty ones.
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csharp,
if you look at the comment thread, i was "a little nicer" yesterday and even gave a warning of what would come next if he continued to bring teh weak.
what did he do? he tried to pretend that "San Antonio, El Paso, Tulsa, Oklahoma City..." and others compared to LA in this example.
sorry baby but homie dont play that one. and neither should you.
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See, I don't call this:
"put away your dreams of applying to be either a copy editor and/or a troll on this site."
"we know youre lonely."
"we know you want attention."
a little nicer than *anything* I just think it's not really a proportional response, that's all