I would count it as a kill for sure, you caught him from your home and got him to act right cause he knew he wasn't getting away from the TorqueMonsta!!1 Cool story too.

 

a plate number can do so much more for finding someone than just giving the make model and color of car can. do you know how many cars can be running around that are the same color and body style of a certain car??? you're just trying to go on luck then. with the camera's in modern cruisers, plates can be picked up and the officer notified on the spot so he can turn and catch the car.

 

I've heard of this, but not really sure how much this is actually in use. I would have to guess its not very widespread yet.

 

Sweet! And lol at the kid getting his mom and the annoying neighbor. There'ed been a lot of "stfu and gtfo's" if I'd have been there. I'd even say it in internet lingo so we could have youtubed it. lol smiley face

 

A Neon a TURD????????

 

if it's being used in small towns in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota, i'm pretty damn certain it's being used elsewhere.

 

I agree with what you did s8er01z. My sister got hit by a drunk driver who then fled the scene, they had his license plate #, they had a description of the guy. They found the car broken down on the highway and not the driver. The owner claimed his friend borrowed it and he had no idea who was driving the car at the time, he didn't have insurance. except the owner matched the description of the driver it was too "generic" of a description to hold up for charges.. would have been felony jail time for the guy who already had 3 DUIs.. this happened in Phoenix.

Anyway, she never got anything out of it even though they knew exactly who did it she had to pay for repairs and back/neck injuries. So you did the right thing.

 

Holy crap... I'm glad I helped him out... the what ifs are pretty extreme but I figured the plate would have been enough to get it done. That sucks man.

 

Yeah I don't blame you for giving chase. No personal offense to any police officers here on this board, but so many cops are so ****ing lazy and wouldn't have been able to do anything anyway. I even heard it from the mouth of a cop that the reason why most people become police officers is because it lets them have power and be lazy. I am very averse to police after my repeated attempts to get them to come out to my neighborhood when I see some shady drug dealing going on (I live in a really nice area of Charlotte).

Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

 

I work with these guys all the time and know all of the officers very well. It's not a case of them being lazy.. they just have a large area to cover and not enough man power to do it. If the every day joe blow didn't think the solution to our budget problems was to cut budgets or fire/layoff police, fire, ems staff instead of maybe not building a golf course this year if might not be this bad but we have to deal with it.

I will defend my brothers in blue and don't feel that they did anything wrong here.