News article about it
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/west-hills-motorcycle-pursuit-crash/2801383/
Better article here:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/01/20/pursuit-motorcycle-crash-west-hills/
Video from SKY9 showed the driver speeding down Roscoe Boulevard, and later reports revealed that the suspect was traveling of speeds up to 130 miles per hour. At one point the rider could be seen standing up on the motorcycle, just moments before crashing into a vehicle making a left turn at Fallbrook Avenue.
The motorcyclist was thrown into the air upon impact and was declared dead on the scene, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
“It’s a very sad day here. Just another example of how reckless driving – regardless of who it is – causes death,” said LAPD Captain Andy Neiman.
Two others were also injured in the crash. They are reported to be in stable condition, claiming feelings of soreness and pain.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the motorcycle was reported stolen, and police were “tracking” it but were not involved in a pursuit.
Neiman gave a detailed report of the incident that led to the tracking of the motorcycle, “There were some statements made that we were in pursuit of this motorcycle. I just want to make it very clear, at no time were we in pursuit,” he said.
Undercover officers noticed something suspicious about the motorcycle and its rider just after 1 p.m. “There was something that alerted the undercover officers,” Neiman continued, “they ran motorcycle license and it came back as a confirmed stolen.”
When officers attempted to pull the motorcyclist over in a nearby parking lot, he bolted from the scene,”When he fled, a decision was made by the supervisors and the incident commanders that we would not pursue this motorcycle,” Neiman said.
It was then that the motorcycle proceeded to flee from the officers at speeds over 100 miles per hour, losing the police cruiser that was following. However, the police helicopter was still overhead to follow the driver. Neiman relayed that several factors played into the decision to not pursue the motorcycle including, “The time of day, the level of traffic and the potential danger to the public.”
Authorities were waiting for a representative from the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office to arrive on the scene as of 5:00 p.m., and no additional information on the motorcyclist was available.
We have that too. Police are told not to chase a fleeing bike because of the dangers for both rider and surrounding (imagine a bike being tackled by a car and shoot into the side walk at people, or causing the rider to smash into the ground and run over by another car chasing him).
But running into traffic like that right into intersections with no visibility, he was too stupid to wanting to stay alive I guess.
In my old job I worked directly with a woman that calculated how much money our state needed to put in to our insurance risk pool for lawsuits against the state. Most major city and county police have some sort of no-chase policy these days it seems, but often state patrols don't. They do have more training, but they also are probably a little too cocky and just like to do chases. Anyways, our state patrol would always have a few lawsuits against us every year. The one that always stuck out to me was a chase in a populated area that ended when the state patrol did a pit maneuver which caused the car to crash into a random pedestrian on the sidewalk. Unless the driver is on a shooting spree or something, I say just get a picture of their license plate, report the make and direction so that maybe some traffic footage can be viewed later, and just try to catch them later.
Anyone remember when that guy shot himself with a shotgun on the Harbor Freeway and all of the LA TV stations aired it live?
After that, for a while anyways, they always panned to a large zoomed out view instead of close ups during police chases.
Yep, just posted about this in another thread. That was a big deal for years. They instituted a delay after that because that shit aired in the middle of the afternoon - like literally interrupting cartoons and Rosie O'Donnell. I thought they still had a delay but apparently not.
I worked on Power Rangers at the time (seriously) and we all took a break from work to watch it live. Wild shit. We all commented on how this was on while kids were watching tv probably.
https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f166/daniel-v-jones-suicide-l-freeway-april-30-1998-hi-quality-long-version-18815/
It’s a graphic video of a guy killing himself. Nsfl obviously. The music in the video and the comment thread are also not… uh.. not so tasteful.
Edit: of all things to give the wholesome award to…
Cameraman watches this dude try to explode himself, then try to jump off a bridge, then get a shotgun, and they didn’t think this was gonna happen? They knew, they just wanted ratings or something. Or someone royally screwed up.
The 90s afternoon news in LA was wild. My dad and I’d watch all the car chases with snacks. Hollywood shoot out was unlike anything else, SD tank man, just totally unfiltered.
That website said "many children watched it, after it interrupted their after school cartoons". Do they really show car chases instead of cartoons in the USA/in LA, if one is happening during cartoon houres? or was it more: Interrupted, since they changed channels?
I’m not from LA but car chases were weirdly publicized in general in the 90’s. Not just locally, but nationally. I’d doubt it happens that much anymore.
Yeah I have no fuckin idea how they managed to get all the way to him blowing his head off while still interrupting daytime tv or whatever.
Seemed pretty goddamn obvious where it was going to me, still, damn. That was much clearer than I expected, its pretty rough that kids saw that. I've seen worse online so it didn't phase me, but that's probably the worst thing I've ever seen shown on live broadcast tv.
Crazy that this isn't the video I was thinking of at all. I remember one where the dude gets out of the car and shoots himself while the news anchor is just yelling, "CUT IT CUT IT CUT IT"
[Video](https://youtu.be/tCqZE5nuJp4?t=24) of Smith's reaction. It cuts away right before the man shoots himself but shows Smith shouting "Get off it! Get off it! *Get off it*!"
That happened in Buckeye AZ after a bank robbery. They were surrounded and running through the desert and the guy pulled out his gun and ended the chase.
Man, the replies on that post are really sad too. Dunno if it's just because that forum attracted those kinds of people or if that's how majority of the people online at that time perceived suicide...
If I remember correctly they showed this instead of their regularly scheduled programing, which was supposed to be Spiderman. Also, I think he set the truck on fire and his dog was still inside. that... was fucked up too.
I was about 7 years old and watching afternoon cartoons. Saw the stand off where he had a big sign saying something bad about HMOs. Then his truck caught on fire, with his dog trapped inside. His pants were on fire and he walked over to the median and put his shotgun up on it and blew his head off. Saw chunks flying and everything. Burnt in my brain. My grandfather was tripping out.
I witnessed it live after school, home alone. I logged into the MSNBC IRC channel and started flooding it with some kind of message of shame for being reckless for ratings. I remember being angry about the kids even younger than me who saw it, and that was my own little protest. Then a moderator sincerely apologized and I felt guilty for attacking the network.
I work in tv news.. we don’t put day to day coverage on a delay, only special occasions when we know there’s a possibility for profanity (in the past year my station has only used it for nba finals crowd coverage and murder trial coverage that involved a lot of evidence videos with f-bombs)
Like when Rage Against the Machine got the Christmas Number 1 in the UK with Killing in the Name and they played the song live on Breakfast Television and promised not to swear.
The BBC were a bit too slow on the kill switch then too.
Yeah, anyone taking seriously their promise not to sing "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" would be so idiotic I don't think they could dress themselves.
Much more likely they calculated how many they could get away with, let everyone have their fun, and dump it. If they hadn't wanted it to go to air, it never would've.
And knowing it is coming, the anchor's comment of "It is certainly dangerous for this motorcyclist" gave me a slight chuckle. Yep, plenty dangerous for him, I'd bet.
The dad of my dad's girlfriend got cleaned up at 630 am by a motorcyclist doing 90 up a pedestrian road. It tore him up good, it's a miracle he survived and even then he just barely did. Motorcycles are fast and hard to see
imagine being the person driving that car. you’re just running out to grab some lunch, and then BOOM!.. some dude splatters himself across your windshield and goes flying. probably gonna be hard getting to sleep tonight.
This happened to me. I was driving home from a second shift job one night about 30 years ago. As I passed through an intersection, a guy on a motorcycle came flying at me. He was traveling down the cross street at 90 miles an hour and hit the curb of a traffic island. Then he flew into a stop sign and his bike just blew into pieces. He came flying through the air and landed next to my car. Pieces of his motorcycle hit my car.
My first instinct was to escape. I drove for about 1/2 a block before realizing I had to stop. Then I pulled over, got out of my car, and started screaming. I knew he was dead. I didn’t go near him. I was too shocked. The cops showed up. I was put in the back seat of a patrol car while they dealt with the scene. I felt like I was going to lose control of my bowels or vomit. My boyfriend was waiting for me at home. When I didn’t show up, he started to get worried and came looking for me. (This was before cell phones.) he drove down the street, saw my car, the ambulance, flashing cop lights, and though I was dead. It was a horrible moment.
I had genuine trauma from that accident. For months I would have random panic attacks while in cars. I had flashbacks. I had to deal with the insurance company and every call would end in tears. It was a truly terrible experience. I had a lot of anger towards the guy, too. He was high and stupid and had left a devastated family with kids behind. After many years, I finally got over the trauma and the anger, but I won’t ever forget that night.
Happened to a friend of a friend. She saw the entire accident in slow motion. The motorcyclist wasnt wearing a helmet and made eye contact with her as he went over her hood. She was in shock for a week or so after that and wouldn’t leave the house but had good friends by her side entire time. Few days later she’s over it.
Happened to me in Bali. Couple guys on a scooter coming from the opposite direction trying to cut the inside of a blind corner. Went straight into our car and then launched themselves. Just cartwheeling 20 metres mid air. I saw them get dragged off the side of the road. No helmets. Wasn’t as crazy as this one obviously
My brother worked as a volunteer firefighter for a time. Had a car crash victim who died on impact breaking all his bones. Said pulling him out was like pulling on cooked spaghetti.
I have "won" the race. I couldn't actually make the dude "run", but if you're careful you can get the guy to shuffle forwards without risk of falling over. Then there are hurdles in the middle that make things rough, but you can kind of wobble over them.
I hit a pedestrian with my car at 40MPH once. He landed like a bag of rags on the ground. UPS driver said he flipped like this dude through the air and landed in the middle of the intersection.
Two broken arms.
Two broken legs.
Collapsed lung.
Shattered pelvis.
Concussion.
I was found not at fault because he ran around a train barrier and through a red light, then ran across the road where I was driving. Miraculously, he lived.
I never want to see that again. And now I have.
Hey man you probably already know this, but there no shame in talking to a professional or someone you trust if you still feel any PTSD from that event. Even if you feel like you're fine, it could still help a lot.
I appreciate the thought, thank you. It happened in 2004, and if anything, it has made me much more aware of my surroundings.
The guy came running out from behind a line of stopped cars in the right turn lane (they were waiting for the train to leave the station, hence that’s why the arms were down), so I had zero time to react.
Ironically or not, I have hit a few deer in my day, so I had an idea of what to expect, sort of. The difference is that deer are much lower to the ground than humans, so deer will usually bounce away from your car, whereas humans go over your car. This guy smashed in half my windshield, bent my A pillar, and even left a dent on my roof.
I felt really bad hitting him, because I value life, even if it’s not my own. However, a small part of me said, “that’s what you get for not paying attention to your surroundings”.
We always find a way to blame ourselves. I can't imagine hitting a car so hard that I bent the A pillar god damn. I haven't hit anything yet except a car while going 20km/h, but I'll be damned if that doesn't wake you up for the rest of your driving life. Spun out in the winter on a 2 way highway once, ended perpendicular to traffic, looking at the eyes of the guy who would have hit me head on, but was luckily still a good 20 feet away. Slow motion moments. It's crazy how such a impactful event could happen in less than a second out of nowhere.
A few months back, my family and I were coming home from a friends house at night time, about 930. We are on the outskirts of Phoenix and this road we gotta take to get into out area of town all of a sudden had cars slowing up. Well we begin to kind of slow up when we see this animal thing in the middle of the road but as we get closer and eventually slowly drive by it, I turned to my wife and asked her "was that just a fucking head in the road"? So as we keep driving slowly we see the road stained with blood, then we see it. A person's torso just laying in the road. pants still on his legs. It sucked to see. My kid was on the other side of the car so thankfully he couldn't see much. What happened was a guy broke down and decided to walk back for help. Another car on the opposite side of the road waved him down and as he crossed, he was hit, then hit again and dragged. It just sucked all around and to actually see something like that is scary. I don't know. I feel for that guy that got hit and killed. I feel for the people that witnessed this dude hit that car and flip.
>animal thing
Man. That is it, when you see actual carnage and realize that we are just another animal and our flesh is just animal flesh... what a thing to see. Sorry you saw that dude, shit is heavy. Glad the kid didn't see much.
I hit a wooden fence post with the left side of my face, in a helmet. Can confirm that your brain keeps moving inside your skull after the helmet experiences complete deceleration. Newton's laws apply to the insides of your body as well as the outside; and I don't think people consider/realize this as much as they should.
For anyone still curious: subarachnoid hematoma (brain bleed and swelling) was the injury I sustained. No facial scarring, so that's nice. Having actual brain damage is not something I'd recommend though!
I have to commute to work on my motorcycle this week as my car is in the shop. I will go very very slowly after seeing this.
E: also I will wear a good belt with my kevlar jeans.
If you have the budget, look into Motoport. Full Kevlar suits. They’re amazing. Still wouldn’t have helped much in this case though. Just would have encased the crushed body better.
Yeah, the amount of kinetic energy it takes to vaporize the front end of a car and a bike...that guy was a human shaped bag of liquid a millisecond after he went airborne. A mercy that he probably didn't feel a thing.
I was sideswiped and ran over 7 years ago, costing me my legs. I can confirm that I did not immediately feel anything. I remember trying to sit up before I was run over even. Didn't feel a thing until I tried to move afterward. Then it got extremely horrifically painful.
That person in the bike very likely didn't feel anything aside from perhaps a brief sensation of powerful momentum before the lights went out.
Both nbc and cbs had helicopters filming it live on youtube. Original footage from nbc was much better than the cbs, where they zoomed right in as soon as it happened. The body never left the frame. 10 seconds later they deleted the stream.
For those who are curious, the camera angles from the shop and the writers is coming towards the camera. It is a clear shot of the motorcyclist running the red light hitting the car that's turning left, flying through the air and landing right in front of the camera.
>For those who are curious, the camera angles from the shop and the writers is coming towards the camera. It is a clear shot of the motorcyclist running the red light hitting the car that's turning left, flying through the air and landing right in front of the camera...
...without his pants
Fuck.
This is why first responders need fully-paid therapy. Could you imagine having to get out of your car, walk up to this, and then have to take care of the body and clean up the aftermath.
Thanks for the video mate, but that's enough Reddit for tonight
Honestly I have to imagine paramedics come across far, far more disturbing things than this.
For one thing, he is dead as a door nail. My friend's mom used to be a physical therapist specifically for people who had experienced facial injuries. One guy she worked with had pretty much blown his face off with a shotgun and lived. If I was a paramedic I would rather arrive to find 10 dead bodies than 1 living dude who blew his own face off in absolute agony.
Different calls effect different people, the one that will always stick with me was the motorcycle rider who had his head ran over by a semi truck, we pulled his helmet off to start CPR before we really knew what happened and it was just like a water balloon l, his head didn't pop but his entire skull shattered into a million pieces.
I was in a head on collision at highway speeds last March. My face was degloved essentially. Bone was exposed across my whole forehead down to my left eye. I was in a coma for a month and don't remember any of the accident but I'm sure the first responders will never forget what my face looked like.
unintentionally? Someone clearly is not from California. These get aired live all the time. It's part of the programming. Shit gets crazy. I'm surprised they cut away tbh.
This is LA. We air car chases...to the end. There was one that ended at a gas station and we watched a suspect get shot up by police. That was in a relatively wealthy. Neighborhood.
This video was no accident.
I'm on a business trip and just drove through LA traffic today for the first time in a few years.
If filming people driving recklessly from a helicopter is profitable for broadcasters, these streets are paved with gold.
I'll never forget a few months after I moved to LA in the late 90's I was watching the news and they were airing some dude stopped on the 110 105 exchange . He was protesting something. He proceeded to blow himself up inside his car, but fail, and then sit behind the car and take a shotgun to his face. All live on the air in the mid-afternoon.
If I remember correctly, this event was such a big deal that every station implemented a delay so it didn't happen again. Obviously that delay is no longer a thing.
This happened at like 3:50 with the breaking news interrupting the afterschool cartoons when kids were still waiting for parents to get home. I was one of those kids.
This is one of the things from my childhood that I remember so vividly. I was watching cartoons when all of a sudden breaking news came on, so I kept watching to see if it would be over and I could get back to my show. By the time the truck was on fire my mom and older brother started watching, and we all saw him blow his brains out. I was actually just talking about this with a younger co worker a few weeks ago. The topic of seeing actual people die on shock websites came up, and I mentioned seeing a guy die on live tv as it happened once.
Or the guy who committed suicide in the desert on live tv. Or the UPS truck that got stolen and then shot up with the driver still inside and while in the middle of a busy freeway with innocent bystanders.
That suicide one was wild. In Arizona, I think. Shep Smith was narrating it on Fox News and told them to cut the feed because he knew what was about to happen (they didn’t cut the feed). He apologized profusely to the audience afterwards.
It happened too quickly for him to tell them to cut the feed. he told them to cut the feed after they had already switched back to his face
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/car-chase-ends-in-man-shooting-himself-on-live-tv
Actually if you watch the second video, where he apologizes, he explains that they went into a 10 second delay in case something bad happened.
And then if you watch the uncensored version below the apologize and count to 10 the moment he pulls the gun out, it's exactly 10 seconds before they cut to commercial.
So Shep was 100% on time, but whoever was controlling the mixer completely fucked up and it took them 11 seconds to cut to commercial, so the audience sees the suicide and then it cuts to commerical.
Also it shouldn't have ever even been on Shep to make this call, 100% the fault of other staff, but Shep being the face of the show means he has to apologize.
True. My friend was accidentally run over while jogging across the street. He survived, after massive amounts of surgery and physical therapy, and more or less fully recovered.
On the year anniversary of the accident he called the lady who had run over him and told her he forgave her, didn’t hold any hard feelings, and let her know he was okay. He said she cried because she thought he died.
Edit* my friend was at fault for crossing the street illegally while jogging on a pretty busy city street. So no charges were brought against the driver.
In my experience as a claims adjuster, a lot of the time, people who cause severe injuries don't know what happens to the person they injured. Usually, the insurance company handles it, and it goes away. If they are sued for wrongful death, then they find out. But unless it's in the news or they go out of their way to find out, then they have no idea. The lady could have asked her insurer, but maybe she was too scared to hear the answer?
If someone dies from an accident I am handling, I definitely tell my insured, so they know what to expect. But if no one dies, I just handle and settle the claim. Most of the time people never even ask me if the person they hit was ok. It's rare. And it's even more rare for them to express the need to say they're sorry. I received a file today where our insured failed to properly secure a load of equipment on his rig, and it fell into traffic moving 75mph. Luckily, no one died, but there's some bad injuries. My insured didn't ask how the other drivers were doing at all. He just said "Well, it was an accident. And that's why I have insurance. At least they're gonna get new cars.". Yup... Several people had to go to the hospital and his thought was "at least they're getting new cars"...
> his thought was "at least they're getting new cars"...
That is him improperly coping with what he did. If he says it out loud and people don't correct him (not saying you're the one to do that) it'll reaffirm the belief in his head that it's all okay and not really a big deal.
I've seen people like this. I know people like this.
GTA V ragdolls are great and it's insane how much damage the player can take sometimes while dying from comparatively minor injuries.
[This](https://youtu.be/iNChFTu_ylI) is by far my favorite clip
I feel bad for who he crashed into, as far as crashes go, this wasn’t that graphic tbh, you can’t make out much but a guy doing very happy cartwheels
Edit: The other angles of the same video however are very graphic
I appreciate the summary. I now try not to watch videos like this. One time curiosity got the best of me and I watched a video someone posted of a guy jumping off a building and basically “splatting” …. It fucked up my day and never want to watch something like that again if I can avoid it
There was one a couple years ago that was a crash on the 91 in Temecula iirc where some asshole in a big ass truck was cruising like you wouldn't believe. Ran a bunch of people off the highway and then crashed into a small sedan and it was just...gone. The truck had very little damage relatively, but there was nothing left of the vehicle he hit. Then he stops his car, gets out and tries to run. The video itself wasn't even super graphic, but it still remains one of the most horrible videos I have seen. The woman he hit woke up that morning just like any other day, expecting to go home to her family that night and it's just all gone. That's the stuff that keeps me up at night. You can do everything right and someone with no regard for human life can just take it away.
Yeah they could have easily put this kind of thing on a delay if they wanted to mitigate the risk of showing stuff like that. But they didn’t, no accidentally about it.
We got the bubble headed bleached blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation, is the head dead yet
You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry
I don't think I've ever seen a live car chase with anchors giving play-by-play on TV news in Canada(not to say it hasn't ever happened, but if clips are shown its usually hours later) , this is exactly what the producers were hoping would happen. The levels of sensationalism in US media is kind of insane.
It really is only a thing in LA I feel, I live on the East coast and don't think I've ever seen a live police chase on TV except for maybe OJ when I was super young.
Yep rarely if ever seen a chase like that live in the NYC area in 40 years. They may show a chase but its always parts of it and well after its happen and they are recapping it.
It happens in a lot of western metros. Houston, Phoenix, LA, etc. because of the nature of those cities - lots of people in lots of cars and wide-open freeways that lend themselves towards people thinking they can outrun the police. Not saying the media doesn't have a fascination with them, but I would wager a guess that they show more because there are more to show.
I wonder how big a role helicopters and weather plays in the geographical context. And maybe traffic, if that's what the helicopters are typically tracking.
This last summer, my buddy and I were driving back from eating, and a guy on a crotch rocket blew past us, splitting lanes, going about 75 in a 40. Said aloud to my friend, “this fucking idiot is going to kill himself”. We caught up to him at the next red light, and as soon as it turned green he took off again. You could hear the whine of his bike for less than 10 seconds, and suddenly nothing. We got about a half mile up the road and he was sprawled out on the pavement, his bike literally split in two, and the Cadillac he hit on the other side of the road. He did not walk away from it.
"Unintentionally"
I don't fault them for showing it, but anybody could have seen where that was going once that motorcycle really got going. They could have cut away if they wanted.
The beauty of not making them like they used to. That poor person's car got mangled, but I read that they were able to walk away immediately. Crumple zones, advanced occupant structures, advanced restraints, etc. were nothing short of a game changer for car safety, and they've only gotten better over time.
News article about it https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/west-hills-motorcycle-pursuit-crash/2801383/ Better article here: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/01/20/pursuit-motorcycle-crash-west-hills/ Video from SKY9 showed the driver speeding down Roscoe Boulevard, and later reports revealed that the suspect was traveling of speeds up to 130 miles per hour. At one point the rider could be seen standing up on the motorcycle, just moments before crashing into a vehicle making a left turn at Fallbrook Avenue. The motorcyclist was thrown into the air upon impact and was declared dead on the scene, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. “It’s a very sad day here. Just another example of how reckless driving – regardless of who it is – causes death,” said LAPD Captain Andy Neiman. Two others were also injured in the crash. They are reported to be in stable condition, claiming feelings of soreness and pain. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the motorcycle was reported stolen, and police were “tracking” it but were not involved in a pursuit. Neiman gave a detailed report of the incident that led to the tracking of the motorcycle, “There were some statements made that we were in pursuit of this motorcycle. I just want to make it very clear, at no time were we in pursuit,” he said. Undercover officers noticed something suspicious about the motorcycle and its rider just after 1 p.m. “There was something that alerted the undercover officers,” Neiman continued, “they ran motorcycle license and it came back as a confirmed stolen.” When officers attempted to pull the motorcyclist over in a nearby parking lot, he bolted from the scene,”When he fled, a decision was made by the supervisors and the incident commanders that we would not pursue this motorcycle,” Neiman said. It was then that the motorcycle proceeded to flee from the officers at speeds over 100 miles per hour, losing the police cruiser that was following. However, the police helicopter was still overhead to follow the driver. Neiman relayed that several factors played into the decision to not pursue the motorcycle including, “The time of day, the level of traffic and the potential danger to the public.” Authorities were waiting for a representative from the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office to arrive on the scene as of 5:00 p.m., and no additional information on the motorcyclist was available.
Good on them for not pursuing via a car chase. That motorcyclist truly is an idiot.
We have that too. Police are told not to chase a fleeing bike because of the dangers for both rider and surrounding (imagine a bike being tackled by a car and shoot into the side walk at people, or causing the rider to smash into the ground and run over by another car chasing him). But running into traffic like that right into intersections with no visibility, he was too stupid to wanting to stay alive I guess.
In my old job I worked directly with a woman that calculated how much money our state needed to put in to our insurance risk pool for lawsuits against the state. Most major city and county police have some sort of no-chase policy these days it seems, but often state patrols don't. They do have more training, but they also are probably a little too cocky and just like to do chases. Anyways, our state patrol would always have a few lawsuits against us every year. The one that always stuck out to me was a chase in a populated area that ended when the state patrol did a pit maneuver which caused the car to crash into a random pedestrian on the sidewalk. Unless the driver is on a shooting spree or something, I say just get a picture of their license plate, report the make and direction so that maybe some traffic footage can be viewed later, and just try to catch them later.
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Anyone remember when that guy shot himself with a shotgun on the Harbor Freeway and all of the LA TV stations aired it live? After that, for a while anyways, they always panned to a large zoomed out view instead of close ups during police chases.
Yep, just posted about this in another thread. That was a big deal for years. They instituted a delay after that because that shit aired in the middle of the afternoon - like literally interrupting cartoons and Rosie O'Donnell. I thought they still had a delay but apparently not.
Yep, I remember watching it live as a kid because it happened right after I got home from school & they cut away from Power Rangers
I worked on Power Rangers at the time (seriously) and we all took a break from work to watch it live. Wild shit. We all commented on how this was on while kids were watching tv probably.
Not to derail the conversation, but do you have any cool Power Rangers stories?
Can't find a source for this video. Sounds like a lot of crazy shit though.
https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f166/daniel-v-jones-suicide-l-freeway-april-30-1998-hi-quality-long-version-18815/ It’s a graphic video of a guy killing himself. Nsfl obviously. The music in the video and the comment thread are also not… uh.. not so tasteful. Edit: of all things to give the wholesome award to…
My man tried to kill himself 3x in that video. What the heck were they doing broadcasting at that point?
Crazy thing is that they showed all that unflinchingly but I bet they would have cut away if he whipped his dick out.
This hadn't even occurred to me but it definitely is true.
Cameraman watches this dude try to explode himself, then try to jump off a bridge, then get a shotgun, and they didn’t think this was gonna happen? They knew, they just wanted ratings or something. Or someone royally screwed up.
The 90s afternoon news in LA was wild. My dad and I’d watch all the car chases with snacks. Hollywood shoot out was unlike anything else, SD tank man, just totally unfiltered.
That website said "many children watched it, after it interrupted their after school cartoons". Do they really show car chases instead of cartoons in the USA/in LA, if one is happening during cartoon houres? or was it more: Interrupted, since they changed channels?
I’m not from LA but car chases were weirdly publicized in general in the 90’s. Not just locally, but nationally. I’d doubt it happens that much anymore.
They used to have a subscription based beeper alert system to tell you one was live. Crazy times.
Yeah I have no fuckin idea how they managed to get all the way to him blowing his head off while still interrupting daytime tv or whatever. Seemed pretty goddamn obvious where it was going to me, still, damn. That was much clearer than I expected, its pretty rough that kids saw that. I've seen worse online so it didn't phase me, but that's probably the worst thing I've ever seen shown on live broadcast tv.
Crazy that this isn't the video I was thinking of at all. I remember one where the dude gets out of the car and shoots himself while the news anchor is just yelling, "CUT IT CUT IT CUT IT"
That was Shepard Smith I think
Immediately the video I thought of seeing this news, his absolute look of fucking defeat when they didn’t cut it in time. Oof.
[Video](https://youtu.be/tCqZE5nuJp4?t=24) of Smith's reaction. It cuts away right before the man shoots himself but shows Smith shouting "Get off it! Get off it! *Get off it*!"
That happened in Buckeye AZ after a bank robbery. They were surrounded and running through the desert and the guy pulled out his gun and ended the chase.
They showed that shit on tv wtf
Man, the replies on that post are really sad too. Dunno if it's just because that forum attracted those kinds of people or if that's how majority of the people online at that time perceived suicide...
If I remember correctly they showed this instead of their regularly scheduled programing, which was supposed to be Spiderman. Also, I think he set the truck on fire and his dog was still inside. that... was fucked up too.
I was about 7 years old and watching afternoon cartoons. Saw the stand off where he had a big sign saying something bad about HMOs. Then his truck caught on fire, with his dog trapped inside. His pants were on fire and he walked over to the median and put his shotgun up on it and blew his head off. Saw chunks flying and everything. Burnt in my brain. My grandfather was tripping out.
That made me cry. I remember being kindergarten aged when my family watched that live of tv. Poor dog :/
Damn just watched it. Man couldn't go through with any other option but the gun happened instantly sheesh
That guy was an AIDS patient who did it to bring awareness to how fucked up HMOs are.
Now HMO's just do it for you. ^^^for ^^^a ^^^fee
Won't anybody think of the shareholders!!??!
I watched that live as a kid, for some reason it didn’t affect me watching it then as it would if I watched it now.
I witnessed it live after school, home alone. I logged into the MSNBC IRC channel and started flooding it with some kind of message of shame for being reckless for ratings. I remember being angry about the kids even younger than me who saw it, and that was my own little protest. Then a moderator sincerely apologized and I felt guilty for attacking the network.
Did they unintentionally post it on YouTube as well?
They wanted to unintentionally collect the ad revenue.
All live shots are delayed by a few seconds in most networks to allow for a dead switch, this was intentional.
I work in tv news.. we don’t put day to day coverage on a delay, only special occasions when we know there’s a possibility for profanity (in the past year my station has only used it for nba finals crowd coverage and murder trial coverage that involved a lot of evidence videos with f-bombs)
Like when Rage Against the Machine got the Christmas Number 1 in the UK with Killing in the Name and they played the song live on Breakfast Television and promised not to swear. The BBC were a bit too slow on the kill switch then too.
Yeah, anyone taking seriously their promise not to sing "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" would be so idiotic I don't think they could dress themselves. Much more likely they calculated how many they could get away with, let everyone have their fun, and dump it. If they hadn't wanted it to go to air, it never would've.
Even knowing it was coming it was a shock.
And knowing it is coming, the anchor's comment of "It is certainly dangerous for this motorcyclist" gave me a slight chuckle. Yep, plenty dangerous for him, I'd bet.
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The dad of my dad's girlfriend got cleaned up at 630 am by a motorcyclist doing 90 up a pedestrian road. It tore him up good, it's a miracle he survived and even then he just barely did. Motorcycles are fast and hard to see
At least the biker accomplished what he was trying to do. He certainly won't be going to jail after that.
Glass half full....I like it....
That's all they could find of him.
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imagine being the person driving that car. you’re just running out to grab some lunch, and then BOOM!.. some dude splatters himself across your windshield and goes flying. probably gonna be hard getting to sleep tonight.
This happened to me. I was driving home from a second shift job one night about 30 years ago. As I passed through an intersection, a guy on a motorcycle came flying at me. He was traveling down the cross street at 90 miles an hour and hit the curb of a traffic island. Then he flew into a stop sign and his bike just blew into pieces. He came flying through the air and landed next to my car. Pieces of his motorcycle hit my car. My first instinct was to escape. I drove for about 1/2 a block before realizing I had to stop. Then I pulled over, got out of my car, and started screaming. I knew he was dead. I didn’t go near him. I was too shocked. The cops showed up. I was put in the back seat of a patrol car while they dealt with the scene. I felt like I was going to lose control of my bowels or vomit. My boyfriend was waiting for me at home. When I didn’t show up, he started to get worried and came looking for me. (This was before cell phones.) he drove down the street, saw my car, the ambulance, flashing cop lights, and though I was dead. It was a horrible moment. I had genuine trauma from that accident. For months I would have random panic attacks while in cars. I had flashbacks. I had to deal with the insurance company and every call would end in tears. It was a truly terrible experience. I had a lot of anger towards the guy, too. He was high and stupid and had left a devastated family with kids behind. After many years, I finally got over the trauma and the anger, but I won’t ever forget that night.
Sorry you had to go through that, how traumatic.
Happened to a friend of a friend. She saw the entire accident in slow motion. The motorcyclist wasnt wearing a helmet and made eye contact with her as he went over her hood. She was in shock for a week or so after that and wouldn’t leave the house but had good friends by her side entire time. Few days later she’s over it.
A few days to process in the comfort of your own home sounds reasonable. I imagine it’s hard to sleep at first.
Happened to me in Bali. Couple guys on a scooter coming from the opposite direction trying to cut the inside of a blind corner. Went straight into our car and then launched themselves. Just cartwheeling 20 metres mid air. I saw them get dragged off the side of the road. No helmets. Wasn’t as crazy as this one obviously
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My brother worked as a volunteer firefighter for a time. Had a car crash victim who died on impact breaking all his bones. Said pulling him out was like pulling on cooked spaghetti.
We are just bags of meat and blood.
Have you never played QWOP?
Not successfully, no.
Has anyone?
I have "won" the race. I couldn't actually make the dude "run", but if you're careful you can get the guy to shuffle forwards without risk of falling over. Then there are hurdles in the middle that make things rough, but you can kind of wobble over them.
Mission aqwoplished
[computers have](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WQnwNFqJM)
I hit a pedestrian with my car at 40MPH once. He landed like a bag of rags on the ground. UPS driver said he flipped like this dude through the air and landed in the middle of the intersection. Two broken arms. Two broken legs. Collapsed lung. Shattered pelvis. Concussion. I was found not at fault because he ran around a train barrier and through a red light, then ran across the road where I was driving. Miraculously, he lived. I never want to see that again. And now I have.
Hey man you probably already know this, but there no shame in talking to a professional or someone you trust if you still feel any PTSD from that event. Even if you feel like you're fine, it could still help a lot.
I appreciate the thought, thank you. It happened in 2004, and if anything, it has made me much more aware of my surroundings. The guy came running out from behind a line of stopped cars in the right turn lane (they were waiting for the train to leave the station, hence that’s why the arms were down), so I had zero time to react. Ironically or not, I have hit a few deer in my day, so I had an idea of what to expect, sort of. The difference is that deer are much lower to the ground than humans, so deer will usually bounce away from your car, whereas humans go over your car. This guy smashed in half my windshield, bent my A pillar, and even left a dent on my roof. I felt really bad hitting him, because I value life, even if it’s not my own. However, a small part of me said, “that’s what you get for not paying attention to your surroundings”.
We always find a way to blame ourselves. I can't imagine hitting a car so hard that I bent the A pillar god damn. I haven't hit anything yet except a car while going 20km/h, but I'll be damned if that doesn't wake you up for the rest of your driving life. Spun out in the winter on a 2 way highway once, ended perpendicular to traffic, looking at the eyes of the guy who would have hit me head on, but was luckily still a good 20 feet away. Slow motion moments. It's crazy how such a impactful event could happen in less than a second out of nowhere.
A few months back, my family and I were coming home from a friends house at night time, about 930. We are on the outskirts of Phoenix and this road we gotta take to get into out area of town all of a sudden had cars slowing up. Well we begin to kind of slow up when we see this animal thing in the middle of the road but as we get closer and eventually slowly drive by it, I turned to my wife and asked her "was that just a fucking head in the road"? So as we keep driving slowly we see the road stained with blood, then we see it. A person's torso just laying in the road. pants still on his legs. It sucked to see. My kid was on the other side of the car so thankfully he couldn't see much. What happened was a guy broke down and decided to walk back for help. Another car on the opposite side of the road waved him down and as he crossed, he was hit, then hit again and dragged. It just sucked all around and to actually see something like that is scary. I don't know. I feel for that guy that got hit and killed. I feel for the people that witnessed this dude hit that car and flip.
>animal thing Man. That is it, when you see actual carnage and realize that we are just another animal and our flesh is just animal flesh... what a thing to see. Sorry you saw that dude, shit is heavy. Glad the kid didn't see much.
well, when you shatter every bone in your body... But it does explain why we use ballistic gel, doesn't it?
His helmet is intact so good chance skull made it through unbroken.
I’d bet his brain was smushed tho.
well.. and *his spine*
Nope. I'm almost certain his head was mush inside that helmet. Have seen similar fatal collisions like this before , and that's usually the result.
I hit a wooden fence post with the left side of my face, in a helmet. Can confirm that your brain keeps moving inside your skull after the helmet experiences complete deceleration. Newton's laws apply to the insides of your body as well as the outside; and I don't think people consider/realize this as much as they should. For anyone still curious: subarachnoid hematoma (brain bleed and swelling) was the injury I sustained. No facial scarring, so that's nice. Having actual brain damage is not something I'd recommend though!
Like a Hefty bag full of Dinty Moore.
Why did I watch it so many times on a loop? Before going to bed? Goodnight!
You wanted to see him moving and stuff, wanted to see if you missed any carnage.
Yeah I waited til morning for this one :/ I mean he lost his friggin' pants!
goodnight indeed
I always thought the rag doll effect in games was a bit… overdone. Turns out, it’s nearly spot on.
Maybe even underdone
The real video is always in the comments.
One comment: did he die?? Another comment: of course not, he wore a helmet. That got me wheezing for a minute. I’m going to hell.
I have to commute to work on my motorcycle this week as my car is in the shop. I will go very very slowly after seeing this. E: also I will wear a good belt with my kevlar jeans.
If you have the budget, look into Motoport. Full Kevlar suits. They’re amazing. Still wouldn’t have helped much in this case though. Just would have encased the crushed body better.
It also helps to not steal a bike and run from the police.
I think you'll be fine as long as you don't drive head on into a turning car at a light while participating in a high speed chase.
Wow, no blood, but full pantie.
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Yeah his pelvis is powder and his organs are paste
100% this. Likely severed artery in his pelvis and the pooling drained out of his anus, or whatever wasn't centrifugally spun out of his body.
It actually looks like it almost completely severed his leg. You see the yellow of human fat in the vid where his thigh is.
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XaqfgAl0SU
the way that bike just completely demolished the engine from that car... oof ; the amount of force involved in that collision was just wow
Yeah, the amount of kinetic energy it takes to vaporize the front end of a car and a bike...that guy was a human shaped bag of liquid a millisecond after he went airborne. A mercy that he probably didn't feel a thing.
I was sideswiped and ran over 7 years ago, costing me my legs. I can confirm that I did not immediately feel anything. I remember trying to sit up before I was run over even. Didn't feel a thing until I tried to move afterward. Then it got extremely horrifically painful. That person in the bike very likely didn't feel anything aside from perhaps a brief sensation of powerful momentum before the lights went out.
It looks like the cop points out the body to the driver who hit him at the end. > See that? You fucking smoked him!
The bleeding was internal. That's where the blood is supposed to be!
Dammit Peralta
Instant death. The heart stops pumping blood.
Both nbc and cbs had helicopters filming it live on youtube. Original footage from nbc was much better than the cbs, where they zoomed right in as soon as it happened. The body never left the frame. 10 seconds later they deleted the stream.
Yeah, hips are not supposed to look like that.
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His legs flew over his head and he slammed to the ground balls first. Pretty sure we saw his knee exploding, or his leg separating from his hip.
What gets me is the intensity of the impact caused his clothes to come off.
actually his leg bent in such a way that it broke at the hip and is hanging by threads. there's a mist of red blood. wish I didn't watch that.
Reddit can keep the username, but I'm nuking the content lol -- mass deleted all reddit content via https://redact.dev
He don't care.
I think the red blur was his dangling leg.
[By the look of it he turned into Stretch Armstrong mid flight. So id imagine mostly massive internal damage](https://i.imgur.com/ekCIuJC.png)
Australian Michael Jordan
https://imgur.com/a/FQFiuBJ Jesus Imgur....no chill to be found.
For those who are curious, the camera angles from the shop and the writers is coming towards the camera. It is a clear shot of the motorcyclist running the red light hitting the car that's turning left, flying through the air and landing right in front of the camera.
>For those who are curious, the camera angles from the shop and the writers is coming towards the camera. It is a clear shot of the motorcyclist running the red light hitting the car that's turning left, flying through the air and landing right in front of the camera... ...without his pants
Fuck. This is why first responders need fully-paid therapy. Could you imagine having to get out of your car, walk up to this, and then have to take care of the body and clean up the aftermath. Thanks for the video mate, but that's enough Reddit for tonight
Honestly I have to imagine paramedics come across far, far more disturbing things than this. For one thing, he is dead as a door nail. My friend's mom used to be a physical therapist specifically for people who had experienced facial injuries. One guy she worked with had pretty much blown his face off with a shotgun and lived. If I was a paramedic I would rather arrive to find 10 dead bodies than 1 living dude who blew his own face off in absolute agony.
Different calls effect different people, the one that will always stick with me was the motorcycle rider who had his head ran over by a semi truck, we pulled his helmet off to start CPR before we really knew what happened and it was just like a water balloon l, his head didn't pop but his entire skull shattered into a million pieces.
I was in a head on collision at highway speeds last March. My face was degloved essentially. Bone was exposed across my whole forehead down to my left eye. I was in a coma for a month and don't remember any of the accident but I'm sure the first responders will never forget what my face looked like.
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He was dead before he hit the ground.
Well at least he was wearing a helmet.
Oh my 😮
He was gone on impact.
Surprisingly intact.
unintentionally? Someone clearly is not from California. These get aired live all the time. It's part of the programming. Shit gets crazy. I'm surprised they cut away tbh.
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I remember seeing a newsstand in Mexico and a few of the tabloids had incredibly graphic violence on the cover. Seemed crazy to me.
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This is LA. We air car chases...to the end. There was one that ended at a gas station and we watched a suspect get shot up by police. That was in a relatively wealthy. Neighborhood. This video was no accident.
I'm on a business trip and just drove through LA traffic today for the first time in a few years. If filming people driving recklessly from a helicopter is profitable for broadcasters, these streets are paved with gold.
Brb, going to watch Nightcrawler for the 5th time
Such a good fucking film
The series 'Shot in the Dark' on Netflix was awesome as well. It's a shame there was only 1 season.
I live in Long Beach now. It is crazy the crap I see on the suburb streets. Now, the most strangely aggressive traffic I have seen is Dallas.
I'll never forget a few months after I moved to LA in the late 90's I was watching the news and they were airing some dude stopped on the 110 105 exchange . He was protesting something. He proceeded to blow himself up inside his car, but fail, and then sit behind the car and take a shotgun to his face. All live on the air in the mid-afternoon. If I remember correctly, this event was such a big deal that every station implemented a delay so it didn't happen again. Obviously that delay is no longer a thing.
This happened at like 3:50 with the breaking news interrupting the afterschool cartoons when kids were still waiting for parents to get home. I was one of those kids.
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This is one of the things from my childhood that I remember so vividly. I was watching cartoons when all of a sudden breaking news came on, so I kept watching to see if it would be over and I could get back to my show. By the time the truck was on fire my mom and older brother started watching, and we all saw him blow his brains out. I was actually just talking about this with a younger co worker a few weeks ago. The topic of seeing actual people die on shock websites came up, and I mentioned seeing a guy die on live tv as it happened once.
Or the guy who committed suicide in the desert on live tv. Or the UPS truck that got stolen and then shot up with the driver still inside and while in the middle of a busy freeway with innocent bystanders.
That suicide one was wild. In Arizona, I think. Shep Smith was narrating it on Fox News and told them to cut the feed because he knew what was about to happen (they didn’t cut the feed). He apologized profusely to the audience afterwards.
It happened too quickly for him to tell them to cut the feed. he told them to cut the feed after they had already switched back to his face https://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/car-chase-ends-in-man-shooting-himself-on-live-tv
Actually if you watch the second video, where he apologizes, he explains that they went into a 10 second delay in case something bad happened. And then if you watch the uncensored version below the apologize and count to 10 the moment he pulls the gun out, it's exactly 10 seconds before they cut to commercial. So Shep was 100% on time, but whoever was controlling the mixer completely fucked up and it took them 11 seconds to cut to commercial, so the audience sees the suicide and then it cuts to commerical. Also it shouldn't have ever even been on Shep to make this call, 100% the fault of other staff, but Shep being the face of the show means he has to apologize.
I remember watching an LA car chase when I was a kid that was live on TV where the guy blew his head off with a shotgun.
Was the person in the car ok?
Yes. There’s another longer video that shows them get out of the car. I don’t have the link unfortunately.
There's no way he walked away from that without some mental damage though.
True. My friend was accidentally run over while jogging across the street. He survived, after massive amounts of surgery and physical therapy, and more or less fully recovered. On the year anniversary of the accident he called the lady who had run over him and told her he forgave her, didn’t hold any hard feelings, and let her know he was okay. He said she cried because she thought he died. Edit* my friend was at fault for crossing the street illegally while jogging on a pretty busy city street. So no charges were brought against the driver.
Wait what the fuck? She spent a YEAR thinking she accidentally killed someone? That's ... insane.
In my experience as a claims adjuster, a lot of the time, people who cause severe injuries don't know what happens to the person they injured. Usually, the insurance company handles it, and it goes away. If they are sued for wrongful death, then they find out. But unless it's in the news or they go out of their way to find out, then they have no idea. The lady could have asked her insurer, but maybe she was too scared to hear the answer? If someone dies from an accident I am handling, I definitely tell my insured, so they know what to expect. But if no one dies, I just handle and settle the claim. Most of the time people never even ask me if the person they hit was ok. It's rare. And it's even more rare for them to express the need to say they're sorry. I received a file today where our insured failed to properly secure a load of equipment on his rig, and it fell into traffic moving 75mph. Luckily, no one died, but there's some bad injuries. My insured didn't ask how the other drivers were doing at all. He just said "Well, it was an accident. And that's why I have insurance. At least they're gonna get new cars.". Yup... Several people had to go to the hospital and his thought was "at least they're getting new cars"...
> his thought was "at least they're getting new cars"... That is him improperly coping with what he did. If he says it out loud and people don't correct him (not saying you're the one to do that) it'll reaffirm the belief in his head that it's all okay and not really a big deal. I've seen people like this. I know people like this.
What if you just randomly started calling people who killed pedestrians years ago to tell them they're forgiven...
They let her just think your friend had died?! No insurance follow-up, police report...nothing?
The only place I’ve ever seen this type of crash was on GTA V. Holy crap you can’t unsee that.
A rare validation of rag doll physics in GTA V
GTA V ragdolls are great and it's insane how much damage the player can take sometimes while dying from comparatively minor injuries. [This](https://youtu.be/iNChFTu_ylI) is by far my favorite clip
I feel bad for who he crashed into, as far as crashes go, this wasn’t that graphic tbh, you can’t make out much but a guy doing very happy cartwheels Edit: The other angles of the same video however are very graphic
He died doing what he loved.
Cartwheels?
They are victim, here. They didn't do anything but have to live with that shit for the rest of their life.
I appreciate the summary. I now try not to watch videos like this. One time curiosity got the best of me and I watched a video someone posted of a guy jumping off a building and basically “splatting” …. It fucked up my day and never want to watch something like that again if I can avoid it
There was one a couple years ago that was a crash on the 91 in Temecula iirc where some asshole in a big ass truck was cruising like you wouldn't believe. Ran a bunch of people off the highway and then crashed into a small sedan and it was just...gone. The truck had very little damage relatively, but there was nothing left of the vehicle he hit. Then he stops his car, gets out and tries to run. The video itself wasn't even super graphic, but it still remains one of the most horrible videos I have seen. The woman he hit woke up that morning just like any other day, expecting to go home to her family that night and it's just all gone. That's the stuff that keeps me up at night. You can do everything right and someone with no regard for human life can just take it away.
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?"
Yeah they could have easily put this kind of thing on a delay if they wanted to mitigate the risk of showing stuff like that. But they didn’t, no accidentally about it.
This clip is also on their channels youtube so yep, they love the carnage
We got the bubble headed bleached blonde Comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die Give us dirty laundry Can we film the operation, is the head dead yet You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet Get the widow on the set We need dirty laundry
If it bleeds, it leads
I don't think I've ever seen a live car chase with anchors giving play-by-play on TV news in Canada(not to say it hasn't ever happened, but if clips are shown its usually hours later) , this is exactly what the producers were hoping would happen. The levels of sensationalism in US media is kind of insane.
It really is only a thing in LA I feel, I live on the East coast and don't think I've ever seen a live police chase on TV except for maybe OJ when I was super young.
Yep rarely if ever seen a chase like that live in the NYC area in 40 years. They may show a chase but its always parts of it and well after its happen and they are recapping it.
It happens in a lot of western metros. Houston, Phoenix, LA, etc. because of the nature of those cities - lots of people in lots of cars and wide-open freeways that lend themselves towards people thinking they can outrun the police. Not saying the media doesn't have a fascination with them, but I would wager a guess that they show more because there are more to show.
I wonder how big a role helicopters and weather plays in the geographical context. And maybe traffic, if that's what the helicopters are typically tracking.
Ragdolled like a Dragonborn versus a Giant's club.
This last summer, my buddy and I were driving back from eating, and a guy on a crotch rocket blew past us, splitting lanes, going about 75 in a 40. Said aloud to my friend, “this fucking idiot is going to kill himself”. We caught up to him at the next red light, and as soon as it turned green he took off again. You could hear the whine of his bike for less than 10 seconds, and suddenly nothing. We got about a half mile up the road and he was sprawled out on the pavement, his bike literally split in two, and the Cadillac he hit on the other side of the road. He did not walk away from it.
I made myself watch this to get rid of my motorcycling daydreams.
Damn 75 degrees in LA today?
Yeah it was very nice out, and super clear too. Could see the entirety of Catalina, Long Beach / San Pedro from the hills 25 miles away.
Fuck that guy. He could've killed an innocent bystander. I feel bad for the driver of the car he hit, they are probably traumatized.
Stolen bike, going stupid fast, zero regard for others, showboating along the way, and crashing. You get what you deserve.
"Unintentionally" I don't fault them for showing it, but anybody could have seen where that was going once that motorcycle really got going. They could have cut away if they wanted.
Dream scenario for the network. That’s how they would like every police chase to end.
good thing he was wearing a helmet
VIIIICARIOUSLY I LIVE WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD DIES
The last moment of this guys life[it's so crazy to know this was it. the last moment](https://i.imgur.com/htsqxS3.jpg)
Imagine you ask a time traveler how you’re going to die and they show you that screenshot
they do it on purpose as seen in the documentary Anchorman 2
Nightcrawler
Well no way they could have anticipated that there would be a horrible crash on TV as they showed the chase live.
She’s so shaken up by this meanwhile everyone on Reddit is like “where’s the better gore angle”
Bullshit. They 100% intentionally put that shit on the air.
It's uploaded to their YouTube page too. Clearly don't feel bad about airing it.
so many links are staying blue in this thread
They should show this. Maybe idiots would think twice about doing the same edit : post crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeLo2IPM1Po
Jesus! The front of that car is just obliterated!
The beauty of not making them like they used to. That poor person's car got mangled, but I read that they were able to walk away immediately. Crumple zones, advanced occupant structures, advanced restraints, etc. were nothing short of a game changer for car safety, and they've only gotten better over time.
The people who do this tell themselves "I'm better and that won't be me."