Sometimes cops try to pull over incredibly fast vehicles, like this Arkansas trooper going after a Suzuki Hayabusa, only to get completely smoked in the process. While police cruisers might be reasonably fast, they’re not the quickest or fastest things on the road, so someone with enough skills and the right ride can leave cops eating their dust.
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In this case, the Hayabusa rider was spotted by the trooper passing slower traffic by using the shoulder. It’s not really a great idea, apart from being illegal, since debris on the shoulder could cause the rider to wipe out at speed, but the guy’s doing it anyway.
After activating his lights and sirens, the trooper is able to pull up to right behind the sport bike. We see the rider, who’s in a full-face helmet, turn around. He definitely knows Arkansas State Police are after him.
But the guy seems completely untroubled by that. Instead of panicking or pulling over, the guy just twists the throttle and takes off. With gobs of power in the lightweight motorcycle, it pulls away from the trooper like he’s standing still.
People have thoughts about whether or not the trooper should’ve pursued the fleeing Hayabusa. While some argue once it started to pull away the trooper should’ve just given up, we don’t think that’s realistic. After all, we’ve seen suspects in much faster vehicles wreck out shortly after running from police.
Others say the trooper could’ve just taken the guy’s plate info and caught up with him later. But there was no plate on the Suzuki. Sure, maybe with a bunch of detective work using traffic cams and plate readers they could’ve tracked this guy down and maybe they did later?
But the trooper kept pursuing for a few minutes even though not too far into the chase he was hunting a ghost. When do you think the trooper should’ve given up? Or should he have done something different at the beginning of the chase?
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