Originally published at: Watch: Gentleman leads police on low-speed chase in stolen tractor | Boing Boing
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Life Imitates Art
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I salute you, good sir. And congratulations on only crashing into one church, when you could easily have demolished several, and a Dollar General or three.
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pulled into a private drive, abandoned the stolen tractor, fled on foot, turned, brandished a knife, was Tased by officers and arrested
Tased, not gunned down. Clearly, the perp was not black.
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Aren’t these cops trained in the PIT maneuver? It seems to get a lot of use in other jurisdictions, if the news reports are to be believed.
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30mph is a lot faster than I expected. I’d previously read of people fleeing police in heavy equipment that were traveling at speeds one could outrun on foot, but which persisted simply because of the danger/awkwardness of jumping on the equipment and getting the driver to stop.
I’m guessing that and spikes aren’t exactly effective on a tractor… and they’re probably more likely to damage their cars trying it, too.
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Couldn’t John Deere just shut it down remotely? 
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Well sure, but the driver wasn’t a pregnant black woman, so they weren’t sure what to do.
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That’s not fair. The police don’t need guns to murder black men on tractors.
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Maybe he didn’t understand what people mean when they talk about “jailbreaking” John Deere tractors?
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