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A lot of guys with even just a reasonably fast car, like say a fourth-gen Chevy Camaro, think they can outrun law enforcement no problem. Maybe it’s all the chase scenes in big Hollywood movies where the police all drive like a bunch of idiots or you could blame it on video games, like people do with so many societal problems. Whatever it is, some guy in Panama City, Florida learned the hard way he isn’t so skilled after all.
Suspect running from police seems to think it’s all just a game.
It was the morning of July 30 when a Bay County Sheriff’s deputy pulled the muscle car over for a reason that hasn’t been released, says local station WMBB. It could’ve been speeding, an expired tag, failure to use a signal, or who knows what.
That part doesn’t seem so relevant to the story. What does is that during the legal traffic stop, the driver decided he didn’t like complying as the deputy tried gathering info on him and the vehicle he was driving.
As a result, the suspect fled the scene, probably thinking his fourth-gen was so fast there was no way the cop could catch him. Maybe it’s running some sweet mods we can’t see in the image of the aftermath of this horrible decision, or maybe it was bone stock and since it’s so much more powerful than the guy’s old 1992 Honda Civic he thought nothing else could be faster.
Whatever drove him to conclude he couldn’t be caught, his luck ran out in a hurry. After leading county deputies and Florida Highway Patrol troopers on a high-speed chase down West Highway 98, the guy couldn’t negotiate a simple turn.
That’s right, it was a left-hand turn which took him down. Failing to control the Camaro, he oversteered right into a stop sign pole with the driver’s side front corner of the vehicle. You can see the quarter panel is busted up and the tire was shredded, the bead slipping all the way off the wheel rims.
It’s weird how that sort of stuff doesn’t happen in the movies, almost like it’s all fake or something. At least the fourth-gen wasn’t completely wrecked.
Image via WMBB News 13/YouTube
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