By Steven Symes 
This guy wanted for felony battery uses a junky Hyundai to doggedly flee from Florida Highway Patrol at high speeds. What should’ve been a pursuit of less than two minutes stretches on for about ten as the suspect’s sheer determination to keep going draws things out.
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Determination can take you far in life, when applied in the right ways. This is obviously the wrong application of determination. If only this guy had this kind of resolve to not break the law, work hard at a legitimate career, and so forth, he wouldn’t have been leading troopers on a high-speed chase in a crappy Hyundai.
An underpowered, lightweight, and easily broken car like this normally should give up the ghost rapidly in a high-speed chase. After all, the thing wasn’t exactly developed for rally races, NASCAR, or demolition derbies.
But even after this guy blows the driver-side front tire, then gets pitted by a trooper, he just keeps on trucking. Using the fact he was spun out into the median to his advantage, he uses the one drive wheel that still has traction to cross the grassy median, then go the opposite direction.
We suspect this guy is fully in his lizard brain at this moment. He has a whole string of FHP and other law enforcement vehicles after him. Even if the Hyundai were undamaged, there’s no way he could get away from them all.
Still, he presses on and others pay the price for his dogged determination. But first, he throws stuff out of the car at the lead trooper while avoiding Stop Sticks sitting plain as day in the middle of the left lane. Clearly, the guy isn’t just going to lay down and surrender.
He eventually pushes until the Hyundai’s wheel is smoking and he runs into two innocent bystanders’ vehicles before troopers swarm and PIT him repeatedly. It’s a messy ending to the chase.
Should FHP have been more aggressive earlier in this chase, pitting the Hyundai out with greater ferocity, for sure ending the chase? Or were they balancing the need to stop the suspect with the risk of harming members of the public?
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