World’s Scariest Police Chases
I apologize if I’m on a video kick this week, but it just so happens that a lot of cool clips have popped up on my radar screen. Today it was a clip from the show “World’s Scariest Police Chases” hosted by the ever so bronze sheriff John Bunnell. Back in my college days at UC Santa Cruz, Worlds Scariest Police Chases was one of my favorite shows on TV. It was the perfect combination of high speed driving, stupid antics, amazing crashes, and John Bunnell’s awful commentary: “This guy thinks he’ll get away by taking the off ramp, but he’s really taking the off ramp to jail!”
“This crazed madman used a cell phone while trying to escape the LAPD, but the only phone he’ll be using from now on is the one at the state pen.” -John Bunnell
There were a few episodes that stuck out in my head where people either escaped successfully from the cops, or made them look a bit foolish. One episode involved an old Toyota truck that simply used the delayed exit of the freeway technique, and got away Scot free. Another episode had a bunch of kids driving in a Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe and it was handily outrunning the normal police cruisers so they had to call in the 5.0 Mustang Police car to catch them. But perhaps my all time favorite episode involves a 15 year old boy who stole an E30 M3 and leads the cops on a wild chase. He actually proves to be a pretty good driver despite his age avoiding spike strips and weaving through traffic without losing control of the car. There is an LT1 Camaro in hot pursuit of the little BMW and it eventually pulls along side him and then, well I’ll let you watch it:
I don’t condone speeding or running from the cops, as it endangers the life of everyone else on the road, but I have to admit that I love the shoulder fake that he gave the cop, and the fact that it worked really makes chuckle. I know I know, this could have been serious, but with John Bunnell’s voice in the background how can you not laugh.
-Bill Mertz
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April 10th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Excellent pick. This is one of my favorite shows simply for the cheese factor. By the way, I always wanted a T-Bird Supercoupe, I lived through those kids.
You ever see the Cops episode where John B. is one of the cops?
April 10th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
John Bunnell says the ‘kid’ is unexperienced… he’s more experienced than that cop anyway :)))
August 8th, 2008 at 6:22 am
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