Posted on 11/08/2018 12:33:51 AM PST by familyop
Jalopnik, the automotive website, posted the hair-raising video of a Florida Highway Patrol officer giving chase to a speeding car and hitting 142 mph on the speedometer.
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It was not only a hot engine catching the grass on fire. Remember, it's Florida. I could hear from the audio that it was a blown engine leaking burning oil (experience). Hear the loose rod banging before he stopped. That's also apparent as the video goes on.
And BTW, notice his difficulty with the fire extinguisher, and what he said about that. Then he repeatedly asked the fireman to get his things out of the vehicle.
Catalytic converter was my first guess .....
I don’t believe the engine blew, and it was still running. He backed up normally after the fire started. If he had backed up back onto the highway then he could have saved his car. This is a case of Hot exhaust meets tall dry grass. And for multiple reasons then this officer is a dim bulb in the bunch. He does everything wrong. Every police academy in the nation will be able to use this as a training video for how not to be a moron.
I don’t think the cop had ever operated a fire extinguisher in his life. I’d like to see the report on this one and how they explain the loss of the vehicle.
142 mph? Around here (Stuttgart, Germany) on the autobahn, that’s cruising speed. I normally keep it to 85-90 mph, and I periodically get passed like I am standing still.
My takeaway on that video is that cops have a wide leeway to endanger life and limb by driving like maniacs to hand out a simple moving violation.
True. A catalytic converter could get hot enough to light some grass.
It’d be a lot simpler to set up a bunch of speed-cameras and just mail the guy a ticket. Like the stretch between Macon and Atlanta (70 miles)....just throw up forty speed cameras and suddenly everybody will be going within the speed-limit.
As soon as he stopped, he said “I don’t recommend doing that. What I just did, but...I don’t do it that often, so...”
Then he sniffed, and said more quietly, “Smells like smoke.”
That was fast.
Type of vehicle? Dodge Challenger most
likely. I don’t know why they make a
big deal of the speed, but my Mustang
GT will do well over 142 at least by
15 mph. Maxed it out when I first
purchased it. Scary, haven’t done it
since.
Catalytic converters and tall grass do
not mix well.
Burned a few like that back when ..... Our sheriff recently chased a bad guy into CRP grass and burnt his SUV to the ground !!!
Fastest I’ve “ever” been on the ground was 203mph in a buddies vet he had built. Back road in Texas etc etc .
But have to admit some new vehicles these days are soooo smooth and quiet on good roads at high speeds. I was in my 2WD Tundra Crewmax and looked down at the speedo and was doing 100 plus comfortably .....
Now I use a Escort 360C radar detector with a “limit” setting of 75mph that alerts me when / if I’m speeding.....
Texas !
Bite your tongue. We don’t have speed cameras in GA, don’t need them, and don’t need you giving ideas to any idiots at the Gold Dome who might want to pass such a thing. Slower traffic keep right.
No, we don’t have speed cameras in GA. What we do have is about a million cops sitting on the shoulder of the road with a window rolled down shooting laser. My veteran Beltronics STI-R radar detector does great on radar but laser is something else, no way to counteract it unless you have high dollar laser jammers (which are legal her in GA btw).
“Catalytic converter was my first guess .....”
Yeh, looks to me that the RAV4 May have been the cause of the grass fire directly in front of the cruiser. Btw, anyone know the make/model of the cruiser? In Texas most of our LEO’s now drive Tahoe’s. 140 mph is impressive for a Tahoe.
Don’t see how he was a public safety officer so much as a not atypical ego under cover of law.
I mean really 142mph for a traffic violation ? Looks to me like he was endangering the other motorists.
My little 2 liter Mercedes would do it if it weren't governed...
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