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Thomas wrote:

texasmusic wrote:Seems to me that the dust would have made it all the easier to speed away! Duke boys at it again!

At one point I kinda wished we were further away from the point where the officer turned around, and then I realized it would have been extremely bad if I were to try to evade the police (even if I was very sure I couldn't be identified).

TxRVer wrote:I grew up on dirt roads. When it was dry, you couldn't avoid kicking up dust at any speed.

texasmusic wrote: Duke boys at it again!

gigag04 wrote:

C-dub wrote:Might have been interesting if you pointed out the same observation from his car after you passed him.

Emergency vehicles don't have to obey traffic laws, even fictional ones

gigag04 wrote:

C-dub wrote:Might have been interesting if you pointed out the same observation from his car after you passed him.

Emergency vehicles don't have to obey traffic laws, even fictional ones

And once they activate the in car camera it back tracks 15-90 seconds - which would most likely show your plates and maybe face.

Purplehood wrote:

And once they activate the in car camera it back tracks 15-90 seconds - which would most likely show your plates and maybe face.

What? It goes back in time and starts recording?

Purplehood wrote:

And once they activate the in car camera it back tracks 15-90 seconds - which would most likely show your plates and maybe face.

What? It goes back in time and starts recording?

texasmusic wrote:

Purplehood wrote:

And once they activate the in car camera it back tracks 15-90 seconds - which would most likely show your plates and maybe face.

What? It goes back in time and starts recording?

Probably does like a DVR where it records constantly but deletes everything after it's been on the drive for 60 sec or whatever, unless you hit the rewind then you can go so far back and watch it, while recording the real time stuff and adding it to it. No Idea how they really work just a wild guess

jimlongley wrote:Many years ago, when telephone trucks were OD green with gold bells on the sides, my boss was following "Charlie" from one job to another down a dusty country road. Boss' Dodge Dart had a "Bell Boy" mobile telephone in it, and said telephone had a switch to allow the phone to honk the horn and flash the lights when it rang, if the driver was away from the car. Every once in a while a telephone car would be observed going down the street beeping and flashing because the guy driving forgot to switch back to the internal ringer.

So Boss and Charlie are running hard and fast over Bradt Hollow Rd in Berne NY, with Boss behind in the cloud of dust from the unpaved road. And Boss' phone rang, flashing the lights and honking the horn. Charlie, in the lead and in the clear, saw Boss' lights flashing and heard the horn honking and assumed that Boss meant for him to stop, so he stomped on the brakes. And of course, just as Charlie began his sudden stop, Boss glanced down at the phone to throw the switch and then pick up the receiver.

And then boss glanced up just in time to note that when a telephone truck was braking hard, its read end had a tendency to raise up some just as he stomped on his own brakes, causing the Dart's front end to dip and plow right under the back of the phone truck. Neither was injured beyond their pride, but due to the way the phone company ran investigations into such things, they self insured, the vehicles stayed embedded like that until an adequate number of photographs were taken, photographs which circulated far and wide, and were posted an all of the local garage bulletin boards. I remember those photos well.