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    Florida Highway Patrol Pursuit Reaches 142 MPH, Cruiser Catches Fire

    Here is something you don't see every day. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper pulls a U-turn across a highway median, accelerating to more than 140 mph to catch up with a vehicle going 20 over.

    Impressively (if not a bit recklessly) the trooper catches up with the vehicle he was pursuing, and that vehicle's driver decides to pull over to the left, stopping in the center median of the divided highway.

    One thing 142 mph reliably does to a car's engine is heat it up. A lot. And that center median? It was covered in dry grass.

    You know what happens next. And now you can see it.



    From the comments on the video

    Update: Colonel Gene S. Spaulding, director of the Florida Highway Patrol, released the following statement:

    “The Florida Highway Patrol is committeud to pblic safety and troopers must balance the need to quickly intercept unsafe drivers while using due care to conduct traffic enforcement activities. In this instance, FHP immediately reviewed the incident and assigned additional training to the responding trooper [Bryan Zegers] on May 1, 2018, to improve overall public safety.”
    Last edited by Suzanimal; 11-15-2018 at 06:11 PM. Reason: shitty computer
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    grass catches on fire...get off the grass!
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    Brings a new meaning to "Hot Pursuit!"
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    One thing 142 mph reliably does to a car's engine is heat it up. A lot. And that center median? It was covered in dry grass.
    It wasn't the engine. It was the catalytic converter. It was the federally mandated pollution controls.
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    The idiot cop was far more of a menace than the guy he pulled over. Passing on the shoulder doing 130? He's lucky he didn't kill somebody.

    But hey, with a little more training he'll be just fine.
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    FLAME ON!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    The idiot cop was far more of a menace than the guy he pulled over. Passing on the shoulder doing 130? He's lucky he didn't kill somebody.

    But hey, with a little more training he'll be just fine.
    And that is the Dirty Little Secret of traffic law enforcement--the people who do it are doing more than twice the speed (and not half as good drivers, and making twice the CO2, and driving equipment supplied by the lowest bidder) as compared to the alleged "menaces" they're after.
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    We believe our lying eyes...

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    Cognitive Dissonance and “Speeding”

    https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2018...-and-speeding/

    By eric - November 12, 2018

    Here’s video of an armed government worker in Florida – Trooper Bryan Zegers – who crosses a median and doubles back at speeds over 140 MPH – weaving through traffic and driving on the shoulder – and then parks his now very hot car over very dry grass, causing it (and his car) to catch fire.

    Guess who got a ticket?

    The “speeder” the AGW was after.

    But he was only doing about 20 over the posted limit of 70. The AGW is seen on video traveling more than twice as fast as the legal limit and doing other things that would have put any of us behind bars.

    A psychiatrist is necessary here – to deconstruct the cognitive dissonance/doublethink or whatever the pathology is, properly speaking.

    We (that’s us, everyone who isn’t an armed government worker) are advised – warned – that to drive even a single MPH faster than any posted speed limit is by definition not only illegal “speeding” but also unsafe. It is both things but chiefly the latter thing – “unsafe” – which justifies the enforcement of these speed limits – meaning the imposition of fines and more serious sanctions, escalating as the degree of “speeding” increases.

    In every state in this country, a person caught driving 140-plus MPH (even if he did so safely, on an empty road, without traffic around and without weaving all over the road, as the AGW in this video did) would be arrested and taken to jail, probably dragged out of his vehicle at gunpoint. It would be a hullabaloo.

    Certainly, the offender would be pilloried by the media – and the court. There would be no defending the offender’s actions.

    This AGW’s sanction?

    Standartenfuhrer (“Colonel”) of the Florida Highway Patrol, Gene Spaulding issued the following statement:

    “The Florida Highway Patrol is committed to public safety and troopers must balance the need to quickly intercept unsafe drivers while using due care to conduct traffic enforcement activities. In this instance, FHP immediately reviewed the incident and assigned additional training to the responding trooper [Bryan Zegers] on May 1, 2018, to improve overall public safety.”

    Note the “colonel’s” birds…

    Italics added.

    Where to begin?

    First, this “colonel” (and “general” and “captain”) business. When did the Florida Highway Patrol – or any cop shop – become a division of the Marines? AGWs are civilians – just as we are. They have no more business awarding themselves badges of rank than we have.

    The German Sturmabteilung – the infamous SA – also awarded itself ranks. Hence “standartenfuhrer” – the SA (and later SS) “rank” equivalent to an actually commissioned colonel in the actual German military.

    The SA (and SS) also considered itself an elite caste – not subject to the same standards as the folks the late great Will Grigg called “mere mundanes.”

    The same thing, auf Deutsch…

    Them being us.

    The ranks and uniforms and badges – the “high and tight” shaved heads – along with the “training” given to these AGWs – induces a kind of psychosis in them, or attracts the already psychotic and provides for them a special, insulated reality in which they can pretend they really are commissioned officers fighting some kind of war.

    Which in truth they are. It is a war against us.

    The “hero” stuff that’s been going on since the reign of The Chimp has acted like a hypergolic fuel spill – confirming their delusional (and very dangerous) Breed Apart mindset, at least in their own minds.

    Consider the “colonel’s” mind.

    He states that it is “unsafe driving” for a civilian to do 90 or so (according to the reports) on a highway with a posted speed limit of 70. But it isn’t unsafe for a government worker (Herr Zegers) to do 140-plus in order to “quickly intercept” him.

    Apparently, AGWs are enveloped by a special aura of safety – which immunizes innocent bystanders from their speeding.

    They must actually believe that. Have to believe that (enter cognitive dissonance/doublethink) else they might pop a rivet.

    Zegers has a momentary recovery of reason during the “pursuit” (AGWs love tough talk, especially when it has a military-ish flavor). He can be heard on camera sheepishly admitting that what he’s doing is ” . . .not very safe to do, but I only do it every once in a while.”

    Do you suppose Trooper Zegers would accept that as an excuse from a “civilian” he pulled over for driving 140-plus – or even 20 over?

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    He probably dropped the extinguisher and shouted at the grass to stop burning. When it didn't comply, he shot it.

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    I am rather surprised they didn't charge the speeding driver with arson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buck000 View Post
    He probably dropped the extinguisher and shouted at the grass to stop burning. When it didn't comply, he shot it.
    At about the 9:56 mark the cop (at least I think that's who's talking) asks about getting his computer out, turns on the windshield wipers , comments on all the ammo in the vehicle, and asks if he should get the fire extinguisher out.
    Last edited by Suzanimal; 11-17-2018 at 09:40 AM. Reason: wrong timestamp - missed the fire extinguisher comment
    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
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    This is unacceptable behavior from a police Officer.

    I can't believe he just let the criminal get away like that, after so skillfully pulling him over, all because of a little "fire".

    He needs to get his priorities re-trained.
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    @13:38

    You think my computer is going to be $#@!in $#@!ed up?



    Nah, it's fine. It's in there with the fire extinguisher.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Paul View Post
    The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    This intellectually stimulating conversation is the reason I keep coming here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    I am rather surprised they didn't charge the speeding driver with arson.
    And reckless endangerment.
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