Moment Texas SWAT team uses bulletproof DIGGER to tear apart 18-wheeler

Daily Mail ^ | 12/28/23 | Martha Williams

[Libloather]

A Texas SWAT team demolished the cab of an 18-wheeler truck with a bulletproof digger in order to pluck the driver out after he led them on an hours-long slow car-chase.

Shocking video shows the moment that a seven feet tall bulletproof vehicle, known as 'The Rook', tore apart the cab of a tractor trailer.

The Rook effortlessly ripped through the 18-wheeler's exterior and tore the door of the cab right off so that members of the Texas SWAT team could yank the driver out.

Deputies had been forced to bring the massive truck to a stop by using spike strips to puncture its tires.

The dramatic measure came after the truck's driver - later identified as Trinidad Cutshall - repeatedly ignored the officials' commands to exit and continued to rev the truck's engines as it drove down a highway east of Houston.

After the tractor trailer had finally been forced to a halt, the digger ripped an initial hole in the cab which allowed the SWAT team to throw an unknown item into the vehicle.

The SWAT members then let one of their dogs into the truck before ripping Cutshall out.

According to officials - Cutshall continued to press the gas and hold on inside the cab as officers desperately tried to drag him out.

Eventually - at around 4 pm on Wednesday - the man was plucked from the cab and officers walked towards the bloodied man with a stretcher.

Cutshall's worrying behavior came after an already alarming hours-long car chase, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez said the driver appeared to be suffering from 'heavy impairment,' but that authorities don't know what was behind his behavior.

'Still don't know why he was reacting in the erratic manner he was,' Gonzalez said.

[Libloather]

Really big stick on wheels. The traffic jam at the end is massive.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Why not send in Yogi?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I love when the city slickers take their new “SUVs” out in the woods so they can make s’mores. LOL!

[FLNittany]

Gee, I hope this traffic stop didn’t cost much money.

[Dr. Sivana]

Where is CW McCall when you need him?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Lousy reporting. What about the dog the cops let in before they went crazy on the truck?

[fso301]

And to think of all the money he paid for vehicle insurance over the years and now they won’t pay.

[Revel]

If someone else owned the truck(Including a bank) then they are screwed. Their vehicle was just legally destroyed.

[Songcraft]

Well, after he pays his $50 speeding ticket, that will offset some of the cost of the traffic stop (except for his own vehicle repair costs incurred in the stop).

(Next time, maybe they can just send in their big magnet, to lift the guy off the ground, so he can't roll anymore.)


      

[Macho MAGA Man]

Reminds me of the Bond flick “You Only Live Twice” when he helicopter with the giant magnet pics up the goons chasing Conery in Tokyo.

[Organic Panic]

Always remember. When the government orders you murdered, it will be these guys who do it. The “blue” does not serve the citizen. The “blue” serves the government.

[wally_bert]

Just a drop in the ocean.

[Songcraft]

It's probably only a matter of time until some hoodlums somewhere start using helicopter magnets like that to steal cars.   (Just pick 'em up, and take them somewhere else.)      :-)

[SaxxonWoods]

Mad over a mis-gendering at the truck stop?

[whitney69]

They sure made this difficult. Texas, huh. All they needed was Chuck. One truck one ranger. Any guy who can parallel park a train can do anything.

wy69

[roving]

Gonzalez said the driver appeared to be suffering from ‘heavy impairment,’ but that authorities don’t know what was behind his behavior.

[Does so]

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