BMW versus Camaro

[Kooldino]

http://www.mazdamp3.com/vbb230/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42343

[KvHagedorn]

I'm surprised that 15yo kid didn't kill himself.. doing 150 on a crowded American Interstate trying to outrun the cops.. what a dumbass.

[Wombat]

I'm not supporting the kid here, but:

The road wasn't exactly crowded.

The only person I saw get in an accident was the police car.

It looks like the BMW got away.

[KvHagedorn]

Nope.. he broke down.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Nope.. he broke down.

According to whom? Frankly, I think the cops and Fox (nah, not Fox! ) are lying.
They had everything else on video, why not the capture (yeah, I know the kid's a minor, but they could show the breakdown)? They reused the same video multiple times (the "breakdown" was the u-turn, edited). And the "he was going to ram me" bit looks like a big fat lie. The cop looks & sounds like he's lying, and the video makes it look like the officer f*cked up a ram job (the police car appears to clip right before going left). Why would the BMW ram the bigger, heavier camaro? They'd both probably lose control, which is the opposite of what the BMW needs.

It's evident they misled. That makes it more likely to me that they outright lied.

[XHotKolaX]

This picture too. Where he made the U-turn. Where they said he broke down.

http://www.mazdamp3.com/members/pr5owner/copslose.jpg

[Podfrog]

is that I-35 the kid was on? i have to say though, he made a nice dodge around the spikes. unusually nimble for a kid of fifteen years [i.e. no driver's license].

[Novdid]

When I read the thread title, I thought it was a joke. Comparing an american car to a german one, HA!!!

[gt40]

Originally posted by Novdid
When I read the thread title, I thought it was a joke. Comparing an american car to a german one, HA!!!

You get what you pay for.

[Novdid]

I guess that's true.

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by XHotKolaX
This picture too. Where he made the U-turn. Where they said he broke down.

http://www.mazdamp3.com/members/pr5owner/copslose.jpg

You obviously have never been to Kansas before. It all looks the same. Especially on I-70 west of Topeka (where the chase took place). Trust me, I have driven that stretch MANY times.

Jammrock

[Novdid]

Maybe, but that really is the same place. Note the not highlighted objects to the right of the road.

[az]

Note his smiley

AZ

[Jammrock]

You think I'm joking. I asure you I'm not. Just ask Jon P. about Kansas highways. Almost every single highway entrance/exit on I-70 west of Topeka look exactly the same, with the exception of the Flint Hills area.

Each one has the merger sign, each one the speed limit posted after the entrance, on the other side there is always some sort of sign showing the services and/or the name of the exit and city there, etc.

To the well trained Kansan eye, these are two different streatches of highway. The wear on the roads are different. The slow lane in the top picture has less wear than the bottom. There is a road artifact on the left side that is on the bottom pic, but not the top. The horizon is different. The spacing on the structure or trees to the right of the speed limit signs are off. Spacing, thickness and wear on the road lines is different.

This is honestly two different stretches of highway in Kansas.

Jammrock

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Wombat
I'm not supporting the kid here, but:

The road wasn't exactly crowded.

The only person I saw get in an accident was the police car.

It looks like the BMW got away.

Yep.