I can’t think of a better story to end the week on.
Reports the Detroit Free Press:
Ferndale Police arrested a 35-year-old Detroit man they say led officers on a high-speed chase over a $16 dine-and-dash restaurant bill.
A worker from Buffalo Wild Wings in Ferndale called police Tuesday to report the crime along with a description of the man and his car, according to a report released today. Police spotted the car at 8 Mile and Livernois and pulled it over at Pembroke.
They talked to Marlon Cortez Stanfield, giving him the opportunity to go back to the restaurant and pay the bill. Instead, according to police, Stanfield yelled an obscenity at them and sped off.
Serious question: with the exception of Ryan Gosling in Drive, has anyone ever gotten away from the police in a high speed chase? I have never understood why people just don’t resign to their fate, like this guy…
Anyway, have a great weekend, kids!
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They were really chasing him because he went to that piece of shit bar in the first place. Ferndale is..a bit away from Detroit. Kind of a gay hot spot, I guess. But that bar…it’s a douchebag hangout. If B-Dubs was a salon, they’d be Borics.
Royal Oak is considered Detroit Metro Area.
Ferndale is between Detroit and Royal Oak.
Therefore, Ferndale is not “…a bit away from Detroit.”
Apparently it is essentially Michigan’s “San Francisco,” though. Which might make it funny that Eminem’s studio is based there.
Well Jason Statham in The Transporter got away from a high speed chase so you can add him to the list.
define “get away”. because i had an acquaintance who got in a high speed chase and got away. for about 4 hours until they tracked him down at his house.
Friend of mine was going to lose her license if she got pulled over again. She was about to get pulled over, said screw it, and didn’t pull over. She didn’t exactly do the full on high speed chase thing, but she pulled some zig-zag shit in the suburbs and pulled into some random guy’s driveway, killed the engine, and ducked her head down for a few minutes until the cop passed by the house and kept going. She got away clean.
My dad occasionally tells a story about a friend of his who had a Chevelle (or Malibu, but I think Chevelle) that managed to get him into a multi-county chase. According to lore (and, yes, every version of this story I’ve heard from other family members actually adds up) this was a car built up mostly on the funds raised by drag racing on public weekends at tracks around the state. Apparently, he actually just kept running until he stopped seeing cops behind him. Then he topped of the tank and went home in the “morning” (read: mid-afternoon), where a couple of deputies were waiting for him.
So, no, I guess I’ve never heard of anyone completely getting away in real life. Incidentally, that car stopped existing after a (probably intentional) wheel-hopping incident at a four-way next to a ten to fifteen foot ditch. It wound up being called an accident, and the 454 wound up in another car.
I hear people say “why do people even run from the cops? They aren’t getting away”. Stop watching TV police chases. People don’t realize that people run from the cops *everyday*, and A LOT get away.
Long police chases with helicopters, etc is when people usually don’t get away. A lot of police chases only last a few seconds before the suspects lose the officer and (typically) jump on the highway. Sometimes the officer doesn’t even get close enough to see the plates, the car may be stolen, or there is no plates. It’s a lot easier in a city with a lot of side streets.
-Done it before.
Yeah, life long Chicagoan here. It’s not uncommon. If you ever read a story about a cop car crashing, it’s usually followed by “suspects got away”.
You can’t outrun a radio.
“Serious question: with the exception of Ryan Gosling in Drive, has anyone ever gotten away from the police in a high speed chase?”
Does not happen often, but it’s pretty entertaining when it does. [www.youtube.com]