Tractor police chase

Decatur, Ind. police responded to a call for a buglary. When they arrived a guy fled on this tractor, leading to a two hour police chase reaching speeds of 18 m.p.h. He drove over several spike strips, apparantly they don't work on rear tractor tires.

A neighbor kid got caught by the DNR one night when they believed he was poaching. That danged knot head jumped on his dad's Farmall 400 with a mounted corn picker and took in chasing the officers car backwards across the field. People just aren't that smart,simple as that.

Not smart at all. He would have gone a lot faster without that darn corn picker weighing him down!

Not the best getaway vehicle.

You don't have to go 18 mph to do a lot of damage. A few years ago, I read about a fellow that reinforced his bulldozer with large pieces of concrete and knocked a few buildings down in a small town

Oh God, I"d love to see video of that!

(quoted from post at 10:14:27 06/10/14) Oh God, I"d love to see video of that!

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i remember that on the news, there wasn't any video coverage, just what he left in his wake.

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I remember it happening too.

Here's the video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhzgi_armoured-bulldozer-rampage_shortfilms

The undersheriff gives a narration about what is going on in the video.

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Something very similar happened in Mannhiem, Germany back when I just got there. A fella in Armored got a Dear John letter from his girlfriend back in the states. So, he went on a rampage after taking an M60 tank from the motor pool. He tried to sign out a firing pin for its 105mm main gun. That alone should have set off some flags, but didn't. What got everyone's attention was when he plowed through the gates and headed towards downtown Mannheim. Gosh did he do some damage. He crushed everything in site. What screwed him up was the Polizei blocking the end of the bridge that he was on over the Rhein Neckar River in their Audis, as though they would have stopped him. So, he tried to spin the tank around on the bridge and go the other way, went through the concrete side rail, and over, drowning. To see that thing lifted out of the water was something else.

When I was at Ft. Hood, some fellas on manuvers forded the river there on base in an M60 and its snorkel wasn't fastened properly. They didn't know it until the turret went under water, filling quickly as the must have freaked out and didn't reverse, just kept moving forward, deeper. That's the first time I saw an M60 lifted out of the water, by an M88 tank recovery vehicle, the 3 man crew's bodies still inside.

Mark
M60 Tank Pulled Out Of The Rhein Neckar

And the home area news did not cover this. Know the area pretty well. Got stopped just one county away from me.