Another crazy-ass car chase

[Uncle Larry]

Holy shit! (http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1147261332/Alleged_Murderer_Gets_Owned_in_Intense_Shootout)

[Marcus]

Pfft they needed better footage. They prolly had some good shit there.

[Uncle Larry]

Pfft they needed better footage. They prolly had some good shit there.

Um, everything relevant is in that last dashcam shot. Look closely.

[Old Man Gravy]

"Sadly"? That's one less backwoods Montana motherfucker the taxpayers have to feed and house in Deer Lodge for the rest of his stinking, worthless days. Every time a cop car rams a felon at 75 mph, an angel gets its wings.

[awdougherty]

I assume that the guy is halfway out the door when he gets hit? Was that his body off to the side at the end?

[TomChick]

The guy lived. I believe the voiceover said he was sentenced to life x 11. I don't think they do that posthumously. :)

Also, I presume the seven wounded and one killed were among the police involved in the chase? Jeeze. That makes the use of the cop car as a weapon at the very end understandable.

-Tom

[Steve Canyon]

The guy lived. I believe the voiceover said he was sentenced to life x 11. I don't think they do that posthumously. :)


Good point! After that crash, I bet he is just a little head on a pedestal in some high security prison.

[fuzzyslug]

This is a good argument for police issued grenade launchers.

[jpinard]

Wow, what a video. And how much does it cost us taxpayers to house him per year? Wish we could make a giant island out of garbage and dump people like this there where they can live out their lives in putrid peace (at no expense to us).

[Stroker Ace]

Wow, what a video. And how much does it cost us taxpayers to house him per year? Wish we could make a giant island out of garbage and dump people like this there where they can live out their lives in putrid peace (at no expense to us).Is that a joke, mate?

[Squirrel Killer]

Wish we could make a giant island out of garbage and dump people like this there where they can live out their lives in putrid peace (at no expense to us).
Modern day Snake Plisskens don't come cheap.

[Rward]

Chuck in a coupla dingo's, some baby's and we're all good.

Barbie time anyone?

[Guido Jones]

The guy lived. I believe the voiceover said he was sentenced to life x 11. I don't think they do that posthumously. :)

Also, I presume the seven wounded and one killed were among the police involved in the chase? Jeeze. That makes the use of the cop car as a weapon at the very end understandable.

-Tom

Doesn't appear so - according to this article (http://www.kxlf.com/Global/story.asp?S=2372372&nav=LpDlMPod) the person he killed was at a bar, and no one was killed during his chase (although he did would a deputy at a point just before where the video started).

[Aeon221]

Wouldn't it be hot if you could go to his jail cell, watch the footage of his chase in a little tv under the door, and then throw peanuts at him while he told you how innocent he was?

It'd be like that Alcatraz tour, but more interactive and less mind meltingly boring.

Especially if there were pokin sticks for sale at the front door!

[jpinard]

Is that a joke, mate?

He SHOT 7 people, killed one person, and tried to kill a bunch of others including police. My sister is a cop, and I don't take kindly to people shooting at them...

Hasn't anyone ever wondered if we could "create" a tropical island that can easily sustain people, section off the water boundaries, and drop super violent felons (people like this guy) so they can live out their days amoungst their own kind... and not cost taxpayers over $30,000 per inmate?

[JPR]

That was a joke about Australia's history as a British penal colony.

[Peter Frazier]

Very funny, mate.

[Bill Dungsroman]

He SHOT 7 people, killed one person, and tried to kill a bunch of others including police. My sister is a cop, and I don't take kindly to people shooting at them...

Hasn't anyone ever wondered if we could "create" a tropical island that can easily sustain people, section off the water boundaries, and drop super violent felons (people like this guy) so they can live out their days amoungst their own kind... and not cost taxpayers over $30,000 per inmate?
A lot of people have over time. That's part of why the US has had a steady influx of immigrants and some nation's governments get overthrown. It's the admittedly arguable first step to a slippery slope of passive brutality that no government should find itself at the bottom of. So they say.

It's like this: devise an horrific and almost certainly brutally fatal sentencing like being dumped on an island full of sociopaths to people who "deserve" it, and then you must contend with:

-How potential inmates of Pwnd Island may react while still at large, knowing as they may their ultimate fate should they be captured. Look how they already react to the possibility of going to prison.

-Drawing the line. Who goes? Who stays? Anyone can say "Well, the guy who shot an armed assailant breaking into his house stays, and that crazy dude who shot 6 people goes," but that's no line.

-Essentially re-writing parts of the Constitution.

[Lunch of Kong]

That was a joke about Australia's history as a British penal colony.

Yeah, but that's ignoring the fact that the British only opened up Australia as a penal colony after their previous penal colony, America, revolted.

[Lunch of Kong]

a tropical island ...not cost taxpayers over $30,000 per inmate?

Have you checked the real estate listings for tropical islands recently?

[WarrenM]

Put that island on pay-per-view and you'd turn a profit on the thing.

[shift6]

-Essentially re-writing parts of the Constitution.
I dunno about all that. I think the only thing the Constitution prohibits w.r.t. sentences is cruel and unusual punishments. I don't believe the Fathers would have seen a penal colony as either. And what is a prison anyways besides an artificial island?

[jpinard]

Putting them in an island (well, now moving island) like the Roth Ice Sheet? Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Put them on an island with all the things necessary to live off the land? That'd be better than jail for most of them.

As was mentioned - put a few cameras up on the island to see whether violent felons get along together, or kill each other outright... it'd be the best selling reality tv show ever. Not to mention all the sociological discussion/research it'd jump-start at Universities.

Who goes? Well, a person who gets sentenced to more than one consecutive life term.

[Lunch of Kong]

Yeah. Bad idea.

[Guido Jones]

Ray Liotta already made a movie about that (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110678/) - it's not *that* bad actually.

[Marcus]

I kinda liked the movie actually.