Here’s a video taken from inside a car driven by a speed limit enforcer who continues to speed (and drive on the shoulder and narrowly misses hitting several other vehicles) long after the speeder he was chasing has disappeared.
Before the pursuit even begins, the enforcer of the speed limit can be seen aggressively tailgating other vehicles, rolling up on their bumpers without his lights or siren on, bullying them out of his path. He finally does turn them on and passes one vehicle on the left shoulder in a construction zone bounded by concrete barriers.
It is not clear why the speed limit forcer is driving this way because the pursuit of the motorcycle has not yet even begun – because there is no motorcycle in sight, yet. We hear (on the video) the sound of the speed limit enforcer’s speeding vehicle, its V8 engine roaring as the speed limit enforcer reaches very high speeds, passing startled other-drivers who have split-seconds to react – to get out of his way. The speed enforcer drives this way for about a minute, reaching what appear to be speeds of 100 MPH or more – speeds deemed reckless by the law in many if not all states when anyone other than a speed limit enforcer drives that fast.
It’s an interestingly dissonant thing. If – as we are told – “speed kills” then it kills generally. There cannot be exceptions to it – just as there cannot be exception to the law of gravity. If anyone jumps out of an airplane (without a parachute) they will be killed. But it is evident that “speed” does not “kill” when a speed limiter enforcer speeds.
Well, at least this time.
His reckless driving, on the other hand, almost did.
The distinction is important. Speed is just another way of describing velocity. It does not – as such “kill.” If it did, we’d all be dead given how speedily the Earth rotates on its axis and then around the sun, etc. Traffic moves safely at very high speeds – well in excess of 100 MPH – on the unlimited speed stretches of the German Autobahn, which has a lower fatality rate than American highways.
Speed can – and does – kill when it is combined with recklessness, as displayed in this video. That kind of driving would get you in trouble – with the law – in Germany. But not because of the speed. Over there, they take safe driving – rather than speeding – seriously, in that they understand the difference between the two. Drivers may drive at extremely high speed but they may not (legally) bully or tailgate or recklessly pass on the shoulder, with inches of clearance to spare. If a traffic cop sees someone driving in that manner, they’l get pulled over.
But not for “speeding.”
Anyhow, the speed limit enforcer eventually catches up to the motorcycle. Its rider is not doing anything reckless, in terms of what can be seen in the video. When he notices there is an enforcer behind him, he departs at high speed. This is not considered to be unreasonable behavior when we see it displayed by a prey animal being pursued by a predator and the dynamic here is essentially the same. The motorcycle rider decides it’s time to go – and does. In seconds, it is clear that the motorcycle is much speedier than the speed limit enforcer’s car and that the latter has no chance of catching up or even keeping pace.
Yet the pursuit continues. Long after the prey is gone.
There is a long stretch of speeding – by the speed limit enforcer – after the bike is out of sight. More rolling up aggressively on other traffic and bullying it out of the way; more passing on the left shoulder, with started drivers given no time to get out of the way of the speeding and recklessly driving enforcer of the speed limit. Who continues to speed and drive recklessly for some time – just because he can. Well, we can also. But the difference is we’ll be stopped – by guns drawn and get on the ground, now! enforcers of the speed limit . . . while speeding speed limit enforcers rarely are.
The enforcer eventually gives up the chase – but not the speeding. He exist the highway he’d been on and continues to drive at speeds that appear to be well above the speed limit – as evident by his passing of traffic that is going slower and presumably at or at least close to the speed limit.
Probably because the speeding speed limit enforcer’s blood was up.
Try telling that in court to a judge after you get pulled over for speeding. It will not, as the saying goes fly. Nor your argument that your speeding wasn’t reckless. Because – for us – speeding at the speeds seen in the video is prima facie “reckless.” Which means all that’s necessary to establish guilt – of “reckless” driving – is the fact that you you or I were speeding at a certain speed. Put another way, it is no defense – for us – to demand that the accusing officer adduce evidence beyond just the speed we were driving to establish that our driving was “reckless.”
The speeding by itself is sufficient – in our case.
But why is it insufficient in the case – on video – of an officer who is both a speeder and an objectively reckless driver? Well, because those who enforce speed limits are not bound by either speed limit or reckless driving laws.
Which tells us very plainly that it is not “speed” that’s at issue or even reckless driving for that matter. It is a question of who’s allowed – which is another way of saying who’s in charge?
And we all know the answers to those questions.
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It’s worse…
Israeli methods are easily discerned in American police departments, who have, almost all received “free” training in israeli methods in how to handle us Palestinians (oops, I mean American citizens).
American police officers used to be considered “peace officers” in which the citizen was held supreme, but no more.
“Escalation of force”, once a staple of American police doctrine has been replaced with israeli “command and control” doctrine which subordinates the citizen to the demands made by American police officers. This is the same method used in israel and in the occupied territories.
A prime example of this is the murder of Daniel Shaver, who was ordered (commanded) by police officers to crawl with his hands behind his back–an impossible task. He received multiple conflicting commands from multiple police officers and then was shot in the back by police officer Philip Brailsford who had the words “you’re f#cked engraved on the dust cover of his weapon. To add insult to injury, Brailsford was not held responsible for his actions but was rewarded a “disability pension”.
So much for “the rule of law”.
I’ve found a couple youtube channels dedicated to showing police chases. The recklessness displayed by the 5-0 trying to catch the baddie is beyond mortifying. They will continue a pursuit in heavy traffic, risking the safety of everyone around them, to catch someone who we later find out was guilty of not having insurance, or a suspended license.
I got verbal warnings both times I outran cop and sherrif himself on my sportbikes. I kept up to 140 long enuf to make time to pull over, remove helmet, relax sidesaddle w paperwork ready. I acted like it was the safest thing they ever saw. Two of the only 4 cool cops Ive ever met including my deputized dad.
OFF TOPIC:
Cars have air filters, so why do modern cars put exhaust gas directly back into the engine instead of it going through the air filter?
It seems like EGR would put carbon/junk onto the rings and make the engine wear out faster. Plus since there’s less oxygen the car computer will put less fuel (to maintain proper fuel-to-air-ratio), which seems okay, but then there is less power so the driver has to push the gas pedal down more. So there’s always some of the air space in the cylinders being used for exhaust gas, so that makes the engine less efficient, so overall the EGR seems like it would cause LESS efficiency and therefore MORE emissions.
Given this was an Arkansas Statie, he was probable tasked with patrolling the highway.
Patrolling for what? Accidents, disabled motorists, naked hippies, but mostly – speeders.
This is his single mission in life, and by god, he was going to make sure those signs were adhered to.
Mind you, this policing thing is ultra dangerous. I know this because I hear it on the TV a lot.
How can this officer get home safe at night when there is a guy on a motor bike going faster than some guy in Little Rock wearing a short sleeve shirt with a tie says is OK?
/s/
Palisades downtown is gone, like Gaza.
If you go to onscenetv at YouTube, the fire is there with no reporting.
Might even be an act of war, have to be suspicious.
When you supply the arms and 100,000 Palestinians are murdered, expect some blow-back, looks like karma is here.
The cops are arresting looters.
It can get worse. 200,000 people have evacuated, just like the Palestinians were forced to do.
What goes around comes around. Mother Nature makes Biden’s dark winter look like a walk in the park.
All of those cars speeding away from the fires all need to be ticketed for speeding violations. The cops will collect some more money that way.
I endorse this comment.
So, how many vehicles did this Rat Clit pass which were not keeping right except to pass?
The only good one of these pieces of shit is a dead one.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, auto makers show us what they are thinking. I am not bloody amused:
‘LAS VEGAS (AP) — Interior lighting aimed at reducing motion sickness. Shiny holographic dashboards displayed on windshields. And AI-powered voice assistants paired with infotainment systems to keep you company on long drives.
‘Honda spotlighted “ultra-personal optimization” for customers of its upcoming 0 series of electric vehicles — the first two models of which are set to launch in North America next year. The operating system for 0 series models, “AISMO OS,” will be integrated into vehicle operations ranging from automated driving and advanced driver assistance to in-car infotainment.
‘Sony Honda Mobility says “Afeela 1″ will include an interactive AI-powered voice agent. CEO Yasuhide Mizuno said that “customers can be entertained by communicating with Afeela 1” — noting that Afeela’s agent is “focused on conversation” and “proactively talks to you” to provide useful information as you drive.’
https://apnews.com/article/honda-hyundai-bmw-ces-2025-c6b48e70081c6a4eaab9d6e445e3534f
Honda calling its EeeVees the ‘0’ (as in ‘zero’) series? Are they frickin’ retarded? Maybe it’s a nod to Mitsibishi’s A6M ‘Zero’ fighter in WW II. But — Earth to Honda — Japan lost.
Meanwhile, the creepily-named Afeeeeeeeela wants to ‘proactively talk to me’? Hell frickin’ no! STFU, bitch. Or you can get out and walk home.
There is NOTHING more dangerous than “saaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety”!
The police are on the job in Los Angeles.
27,000 acres have been torched, that is 42 square miles.
12,000 structures burned to the ground.
Water will douse a fire, but California emptied a reservoir.
Firefighters are up against a thermal runaway that is causing immense devastation.
People will leave and not go back.
No doubt those fires were set on purpose, given that only a small percentage has been contained so far. A perfect excuse not only for the “climate change” narrative, but also to potentially tie up traffic going to and from the nearby Port of Long Beach, which is one of the busiest in the world. That way, our dear leaders can declare yet another “supply shortage”.
Where are the jumbo jet tankers? I finally saw one DC10 on the news this morning. Any air drop televised has been water, NOT retardant. What the hell is going on here?
In between Santa Ana wind events get those tankers out front of the fire and retardant douse the ‘hoods like we used to here in WA.
Helos and the pea shooter scoop and drop planes are never going to get a handle on this. Jumbo jet tankers work and have been available for decades, Ruskies started this concept and we’ve had a USA design see Evergreen Aviation for a 747 version:
https://evergreenaviation.com/fuselage/supertanker/
20,000 gallons holy C! All I’ve see written are excuses like “too much water it will wash sediment into salmon spawning areas”. (F the fish for this year, Jesus). What’s going to happen to the precious streams when thousands of denuded acres wash away in spring runoff? “Too expensive to fly a jumbo” Really? You can buy a bunch of jet fuel for $100 billion. The most sinister was a leak from the Forest Service that putting out fires quickly would impact the fire fighter headcount.
Got money and gear for Ukraine & Israhell but a major problem here and crickets. I’ve also got a bad feeling the red retardant is now a verboten chemical too. Humm.
Fire biz was slow last summer ya know
Speaking of out-of-control government goons, here is an idea long past due:
https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-boebert-burlison-introduce-legislation-abolish-atf
Hat tip to the guy on the motorcycle for getting away, he surely avoided a roadside beat down. Here’s hoping the AGW didn’t get a good look at his license plate or he’s liable to get a visit from a SWAT team.
Buddy in high school was a “stick it to the man” icon when he ditched the cops on his Bultaco dirt bike, one tried to pull him over when he was riding home on the street – the chase was on! He was wearing a helmet they couldn’t tell who he was. He hit the woods, weaved in and out, across roads it was epic. Made it home they never caught him.
I was hauling ass on my 450 Honda (50 in a 30) when I went past a cop that had pulled over a car, he screamed at me to stop, nope! I took a random thru neighborhoods route home, never saw another cop that day.
No the little old lady next door will get it instead
>Speed is just another way of describing velocity.
Incorrect.
Speed is a scalar quantity, and represents magnitude only.
Velocity is a *vector* quantity, and represents speed + direction.
Kinetic energy, KE = (1/2)*m*(v*v)
where v is the *relative* velocity.
If two vehicles, or railroad trains, are proceeding in opposite directions, then their *relative* velocity is the *sum* of their speeds. Notice that if the *relative* velocity doubles, the kinetic energy quadruples, because (2v*2v) = 4*(v*v).
In case of a head on collision, all the kinetic energy must be absorbed by the vehicles (and their occupants) in order to bring the vehicles to rest (zero velocity).
Thus, if you are proceeding at 25 mph, and someone traveling in the opposite direction @ 25 mph hits you head on, the relative velocity of collision is 25 + 25 = 50 mph.
Would you rev up your motorcycle and smash it into a bridge pier @ 50 mph? Probably not, unless you had a death wish.
CHP (California Highway Patrol) knows this, and their officers are very well trained to avoid collisions. At a “lunch and learn” seminar I attended in 1969, the CHP motorcycle officer who gave the seminar stated:
1. CHP puts 5% of their road miles on motorcycles, but motorcycles account for 95% of serious injuries.
2. In any head on collision, CHP expects to see *at* *least* one fatality.
Local “law enforcement” is not necessarily so well trained. I had one such off himself on my front bumper in 1989, because he was evidently ignorant of the laws of physics, and thought he could drive on the wrong side of the road without consequence. Wrong. He totaled his county issue Kawasaki motorcycle, totaled my Ford pickup, and totaled himself.
i was wearing a seat belt, and walked away from the collision.
He is a “hero,” though. His name is inscribed on the “Wall of Heroes,” or some such appellation.
“Incorrect.
Speed is a scalar quantity, and represents magnitude only.”…
I KNEW someone would pop off on this. 🙂
Feel free to give tomorrow’s lecture. 🙂
What are the chances these over-reactionary heroes were trained either directly, or inadvertantly by the Isn’trael military? You know, the one that looks at every living thing on the planet as an enemy combatant.
The question of who is allowed, as another way of saying who is in charge, isn’t hard to figure out…Its reason number six hundred and seventy two why we cant have nice shit anymore.
“Like.” The most important comment, thus far.
If the police were Home Depot, the only tool for sale would be a hammer
A little while back a plainclothes Michigan State Police “stakeout team” blew a stop sign and t-boned a driver who had the right-of-way.
The first thing these “piggies” did was to yank the driver out of his car and handcuff him, showing absolutely no regard for possible injuries inflicted by the “piggies”.
They almost got away with it, save for a nearby building-mounted video camera which recorded the whole incident.
The video made the local media circuit, the so-called reporters giving no credence to the fact that the “piggies” were in the wrong. The story pretty much disappeared after the initial release of the video.
I hope the driver got a nice settlement check from the state…
This little piggy would have been far better off if he had bothered to stop any of the clueless idiots blocking the left lane that don’t even respond by yielding to flashing lights and a siren. That is actually far more dangerous than the “speeder” who successfully navigated his way through the maze of rolling chicanes erected by the clueless “drivers” that clog the roads daily.
On second thought, it would have been far better if this little piggy had simply stayed home and not chosen to terrorize the citizenry as a “job”.
But let’s be honest, we all know this is not about public safety.
Shun all cops and their family.
This was a stupid move. Cop’s mental trigger fired and game on.
If it were really all about safety, or even revenue generation, as soon as the dash cam recorded the license plate the chase should have been done. Send a letter, revoke the license. We’ll see you in court.
A few years ago I drove the Pennsylvania turnpike, post paper tickets and toll takers. The exit toll plaza didn’t want my money, oh no. It wanted my license plate. A few months later I got an invoice from the turnpike commission for something around $55. Not getting into the discussion over if that was a fair price for driving 40 miles of potholed highway or not, just that the bill had a picture of my license plate with a time stamp. I suppose I could claim it wasn’t me driving, but I’m sure the law is set up to bill the vehicle owner, not the driver.
Of course I’m describing a panopticon of motorways. Most of the tools are in place already, with dense networks of cameras leading back to the DOT operations centers. It would only take allowing police departments and state patrol offices access to the cameras, and probably some realignment to focus on license plates, to make it possible for remote speed enforcement. I’m not a constitutional lawyer but it seems if the various enforcement agencies can access all your mobile phone’s metadata, what’s to really prevent them from going after data they already collect?
Where are “our” representatives in government on this issue?
>as soon as the dash cam recorded the license plate the chase should have been done.
Yep. I had a co-worker once who bragged about out-running the police in his “macho man” Camaro. We all laughed at John, and tried to tell him the cops have this thing called “radio,” but he seemed not to understand the concept.
Cops are cops because they get off on being able to do things YOU lowly peasants can’t. They get off on being “special” an being “exempt” and having power.
I have the greatest admiration for cops who actually solve crimes and arrest true scumbags like rapists and kiddy-diddlers and home invaders. But the fact is that a very large number of them simply regard EVERYONE without a badge as a scumbag.
I took a couple of criminal justice classes as an undergrad forty years ago, and the instructor, who was a cop (a decent one it seemed) talked about cop psychology, and how cops tend to get the attitude that there are two types of people: “cops and assholes.” Direct quote from his lecture.
And that was long before the post-9/11 militarized police state we have today.
Criminal justice is an oxymoron
Yep. Buddy at work gave up full time lawyering for aerospace (medical, paid vacation, sick leave, a pension!). He flat out stated “justice happens by accident – when it rarely happens” The “system” protects itself, lock up the crooks not good for headcount! Clerks, staff, lawyers, legal aid, cops, judges – no crooks would be bad for business.
I joked with him “if the cops went thru the trouble of hauling ‘em in they must be guilty!” He knew I was kidding but told me his friend from law school that ended up a judge actually had that attitude. Good luck America!
Wife and I went out to eat last night. Coming back home, we were traveling south from Prince Frederick around 9 – 9:30pm on Route 4, which is a 2-lane highway. Lots of snow, very dark, not many people on the road, and I know there’s always a hungry road pirate hiding around hoping to shake someone down.
I didn’t wanna be their mark, so I was driving with cruise control at 62mph in the right-hand lane. Then some dude turns right onto Route 4 from an intersection, plops his retarded ass right in front of me doing like 30mph or something stupid. He should have waited for me to pass.
OK, fine, nobody else nearby, I’ll just move over into the left lane and pass him then, after I have enough margin, I’ll get back in the right lane.
Well then, I look in my rear view, and quite a distance, some fucker is coming up FAST!! Must have been at least 75mph or more likely 80+. OK, so I better get over back into the right lane.
And that’s when the dumb ass that plopped in front of me finally found his gas pedal, but just was keeping pace right behind me, where I wasn’t yet comfortable getting in from of him.
So I have a choice here. Speed up to get enough margin on the right, or slow way the hell down while someone is barreling up on my ass to get behind the slow fuck on my right. If it wasn’t those particular circumstances, I normally would have temporary hit the gas enough to get ahead of the guy on the right to let the guy on the left pass.
But as I’m thinking about this, time ran out. Fucker was right up on my ass. I was thinking “fuck you, I’ll get over as soon as I can!” Then, inexplicably the dumb ass on the right slowed WAY down. OK, cool, I move over.
What do you know?! Calvert County Sheriff’s Department in one of those huge (not Explorer) SUVs passes us. “Fuck! GOOD THING I didn’t punch it around that fucker on the right”, I told my wife.
Sheriff zooms off way the fuck out of site. That is until, we get around a bend and there he is at a stop light waiting to turn left across Route 4. No lights, no siren, no hurry, all the sudden. And, of course, he’s WAY the hell over the limit line at the stop light, like almost the full length of that huge SUV.
“I guess they don’t require officers to know how the fuck to drive or the laws just don’t apply to them”, I told my wife. But “thankfully”, no porcine were inconvenienced (much) and were kept safe… from having to follow traffic laws.
Im also guessing many of these officers are taking steroids for their “physique”. Roid rage is real.
That’s a really good point, RS, that I never considered.
It’s a good thing that the rider escaped as it’s likely that cop would have run him over or shot him. Safety first……..
The AGW’s behavior is reprehensible. No action will follow. He’ll be praised as a hero by those who back the blue. The sheep will sing “bahhh bahhh bahhh” to the costumed dire wolf.
And then there’s the EP community…we’ll sing “Don’t murder me, I beg of you, don’t murder me. Please, don’t murder me.” (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejAhCMzK20).
‘Do not panic buy!‘ urges the city of Las Vegas, as the CalNev pipeline is shut down by the Los Angeles fires.
Alert citizens hit the pumps, filling up not only their cars but their jerry cans too:
https://x.com/JspecTheHost/status/1877570550433812567
Malibu gas station
On ‘Face The Nation’
California magic
A tan so tragic
— Sonic Youth, Malibu Gas Station
Oh, grate.
Wir haben “chortages” again, and we can’t even blame the Aye-rabs this time.
No worries, though. The noted meteorologist, Barbra Streisand, has assured us it is all due to…… you guessed it, “climate change.”