Originally posted by Rightwire: Grand Rapids is the 2nd largest city in Michigan, population near 200K. It can be an awesome fun city, a bit crazy, and areas of down right scary.
Metropolitan area is over 1,000,000. It becomes a numbers game in a big city when you consider x% are criminals and y% are cookoo for cocoa puffs.
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Posts: 23816 | Location: Northern Suburbs of Houston | Registered: November 14, 2005
Looks like he suffered a little road rash. Too bad.
_________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902
Posts: 9343 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
Not sure if that’s officially endorsed police procedure, but I’m okay with that ending. Guy killed his girlfriend and then shot at pursuing officers? Got what he deserved.
Posts: 3561 | Location: SE Michigan | Registered: February 25, 2007
When I first started driving, I knew an older truck driver. A SUV pulled up beside him with the passenger pointing a 12ga shotgun out the window at his cab. Probably for some road rage incident, IIRC.
Anyway, he steered hard left into the SUV, sent it into the median where it went over front to back half a dozen times. Killed both of the occupants DRT.
After a short investigation, Tennessee authorities basically said you gotta do what you gotta do when a gun is pointed at you. A large vehicle is preferable to a handgun in my book. Whats the power factor of 80 tons at 65mph?
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus
Posts: 8292 | Location: Utah | Registered: December 18, 2008
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
Posts: 10602 | Location: Southeast Tennessee...not far above my homestate Georgia | Registered: March 10, 2010
Methinks the officer needs to work on his tire placement. Center mass or cranio-ocular cavity. None of this “hit ‘em In the leg nonsense.”This message has been edited. Last edited by: slosig,
Posts: 7165 | Location: Lost, but making time. | Registered: February 23, 2011
...that he is still breathing air DOES surprise me 
