Anyone else see the black Pontiac Sunfire running from the cops around Alpine Plaza down Ottawa and up homerwatson where it smashed into a bunch of shit. I'm pretty sure it smashed into a cop car. But the cop chased this guy through the alpine parking lot., Are they allowed to chase through places like that? Here's the situation-Black fire comes burning through almost clipping me and a lady with me. Next thing I hear is the un-mistakable roar of a Crown Vic, Lights/no sirens following very closely behind. The fire then burned out into the road very dangerously, and quit obviously made nervous by this cop that ran up his ass. The cop then stopped at the stop sign and waited until traffic was clear enough to follow, still no siren. So I'm assuming that by not sounding his siren he didn't actively participate in a chase, am I correct? Cause I was sure they arent allowed to chase vehicles especially in heavy traffic like it was, and through a plaza like that. It was actually a really close call.

heh, Guess I shoulda read the paper first, they had terminated the chase and started it again once he hit homer watson. Fucking plowed the poor cop too.

they can chase wherever they want, as long as they have permission from the supervisor on shift.

Yup. If you can drive the car on it you can "pursue" on it. (on road, off road, on railway tracks, on sidewalks, etc). Contrary to popular belief, police do not need any of the ligts and sirens activate to drive fast, etc. The only people that have to take action when the lights are on is everyone else (pull over and stop in both directions) It is however a really good idea to use the lights/siren, in most cases.
Hey, if you 'witnesses' the pursuit, did you talk to the police at the scene? They probably would want to talk to you.

saw this in the paper, hit a cop almost head on!

fucked up!

I saw the cop car at minute muffler on fairway, it was pretty fubar'd.

ne word on why the sunfire was running from a transformer