You know how sometimes you see something amazing, but then you look into it a little more and it ruins it completely? This is one of those times.
That screenshot is taken from a news story about a high-speed chase in California that ended with the suspect driving off the highway and catching an incredible amount of air before landing in a strip of trees. I was all set to download it and set the short clip of the jump to the audio of the horn from Dukes of Hazzard, but then I read this and it totally bummed me out.
An LAUSD teacher under investigation for lewd acts with a child has been taken to the hospital following a police chase that ended with the suspect’s truck flying off Crenshaw Boulevard and crashing near a Palos Verdes office building.
Fire crews had to extricate the driver from the vehicle, which came to rest on a hillside at Crenshaw Boulevard and North Indian Peak. After being trapped for about an hour, firefighters were able to cut the suspect out of his truck and take him to a hospital.
The suspect, who has been identified as Kip Arnold, a physical education teacher at Southeast Middle School, is under investigation for a lewd act with a minor, according to police. Arnold was stopped by Bell police in Lakewood. The suspect told officers he wanted to kill himself and took off, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. [CBS Los Angeles]
Ugh. The lesson here, as always, is that if you see a truck flying off a highway you should just accept it as a gift from God and not research the backstory under any circumstances. Facts are a total buzzkill.
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Just’a good ol’ boys
Never meanin’ no harm.
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law
Since the day they was born
Boy, them Duke boys have gotten themselves into a whole heap o’ trouble this time. They must me more nervous than a long-tailed ‘coon in a room full of rocking chairs…
Pederast gets seriously wounded AND caught by police? The only other way this story could have been more awesome would have been if he’d actually died from flying that Ford.
His name was Kip Arnold. How was someone with a name like that allowed anywhere near children? I wouldn’t trust a Kip Arnold not to have dozens of human body parts in his fridge.
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/obligatory bring back Matt
There’s another great one that I tried to find but struck out, a guy is being chased in an early 1970s Chevelle (or maybe a Nova… but I digress) and he goes off the right shoulder just before a bridge and sails into a ravine. It’s shot from a helicopter so you see the car float behind the bridge, then a few seconds later some treetops shake. I’m 99% sure I first saw it on one of those truTV “Wildest Police Chases” compilation shows if that helps someone else track it down.
…a hail of broken metal and noise.
Yep, that Firebird crash was pretty much the most METAL thing I’ve ever seen here. I’d sure love to see that thing that Stinky Pete mentioned, though. 100 internet points to whoever can dig it up!
The car flying off the highway onto the street below was a work of art. If I could access YouTube at work I’d look for a clip.
World’s Wildest Police Chases was amazing TV at the time. Where else would you see that crash or a guy run over hundreds of cars in a tank?
JACKPOT!
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It’s funny that he was hoping to wind up dead because I was hoping for the same exact outcome. It’s not every day that my interests align so perfectly with those of a pederast.
I’d like to know why it was so easy to just drive right through a guardrail on a highway. Anyway wounded and caught – good way to end.
I think guard rails are designed with the idea that you are trying to NOT go off the freeway. They’re getting a small assist from the driver, not substituting FOR him.
That happened right around the corner from me. It isn’t a highway. It’s Crenshaw Blvd going up the PV hill. There’s a guardrail between traffic going North/South, but on the outside it is just a white picket fence.
Reminds me of Rob Corddry in Hut Tob Time Machine:
“If I wanted to kill myself, I’d fucking kill myself. I’d be awesome at it. A shotgun to the dick. “
Had the same reaction in reverse this morning watching the local news. It was more like. “Damn pervert… WOAH! Lookit him fly!”
Now that is some air. My question is look at the footage before the jump on how the cop car spun the truck, if my eyes don’t deceive me that cop car slammed into that pole after spinning the truck. I was kind of disappointed that they didn’t get both crashes in the video, shotty camerawork dude in the helicopter!
What do you think Sandra Mitchell did with that day off? Maybe some macramé or the organic farmer’s market.