Adrenaline levels skyrocket when cops have to engage in a high-speed vehicle chase, but just imagine how this cop must have felt when he was trying to apprehend the felonious driver while hanging onto the suspect’s car through the open door.
The incident took place in Ferndale, Michigan, last month and was sparked off when officers spotted a Jeep Wrangler speeding and driving erratically near 8 Mile Road. The Jeep was clocked at 30 mph (50 kmh) above the speed limit and the SUV’s wayward behavior suggested to officers that the driver could be drunk.
But what should have been a regular stop soon escalated when the police began to suspect that there was something fishy about the license and registration details the driver had handed them. The Jeep was wearing a Michigan manufacturer’s plate but officers but officers failed to find a VIN on the SUV that matched the details in the supplied documents. Unbeknown to them at the time, the Jeep had been stolen months earlier from White Lake Township, but the police did know they needed to do some more digging.
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The driver had played it impressively cool so far, but when one of the officers asked him to remove his seatbelt and reached into the car, he fired up the V8 and punched the gas, accelerating away with the cop clinging on through the open door.
He didn’t get far, coming to a stop in a parking lot with he and the cop wrestling in the driver’s seat, the engine screaming away, but the Jeep not moving. Eventually the second officer from the original stop catches up with the pair in his cop car and helps handcuff the fleeing driver. It turns out that the driver already had warrants out on him for fraud and concealing stolen property, but he now he has a bunch of felony charges to deal with including resisting and obstructing police and fleeing. The officer taken on the unwanted thrill ride suffered a knee injury but was reported to have returned to work by the time the video was posted.