slushpig
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Of course it was a Florida man
Saucy sauce: https://abc7.com/amp/semi-truck-police-chase-high-speed-florida-man-texas/14013911/
Nov 5, 2023 8:03 PM
slushpig
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Of course it was a Florida man
Saucy sauce: https://abc7.com/amp/semi-truck-police-chase-high-speed-florida-man-texas/14013911/
shadowrunner03
Wasn't a black trans am around the place was there ?
Bumpotato
Is he heading eastbound and down? Might have a long way to go and a short time to get there
Eypisod
They see me rollin'...
Fatalroadie00
Pure definition of the term "Freightshaker"
Illinifan88
Jesus Christ. Unless the guy killed someone or is trying to kill someone, stop chasing him. You got his plate. You'll get him eventually.
bdennis3222000
Oh damn I was certain this was going to be a Swift driver.
foster34
Alright, who volunteers to try a pit maneuver?
Zoldjah
a man of commitment
johnson442
Pointer Sisters' "Neutron Dance" playing in the background!
johnson442
oops! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-jdhorGtQI&ab_channel=PointerSistersVEVO
whizzer
He's on a schedule. They have him driving all day and night. Let him finish his shift!!
QueefMalone
Chefpnut
Waxilliam
I wasn't going to run from the cops, but I was high. I was gonna pull right over and stop, but I was high....
Pkjester
Now I’m a paraplegic and I know whyyy (why man?) cuz I got high because I got high, because I got hiiiiiiiigghhh… DA DA DUT DADA DUT DUT
PlanetLXI
Damn these people suck at videoing anything.
ProfessorMatt
Eastbound and down....
tiduszecht
loaded up and truckin'
kickahippie
We gonna do what they say can’t be done…
SickboySuperfly
We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there....
TheMightyMoto
Look at it wobble.
jammer909
Finally, some context.
Funkman418
brain dead, how can you escape
JohnThatcher
With enough meth you can think all things are possible.
MadamPuddifoot
@op of course he's from. .. CENTRAL Florida. 😂That's like 20 minutes north of me.
nicky512
Of course, he was from Florida. Of course, they found controlled substances and ammo in the cab. Of course, his name was Lebowski!
woozle
Put the hammer down, I've got a bear in the air
bunwiggle
Convoy Ah, breaker, Pig Pen, this here's the Duck. And, you wanna back off them hogs?
woozle
Yeah, that's a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen--
Yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy--
Mercy sake's alive, looks like we got us a convoy
bunwiggle
ShinyMoonPilot
someguy7734206
How do police stop semi trucks, anyway? Wouldn't the truck just be able to ram their cars out of the way?
ahnteis
Follow it by copter and wait for it to run out of gas?
onecowboytoo
bulldozers bigger than these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOb2BqiGZGA
TheNLK
Spike strips, or if they are getting crazy and hitting cars the police might open fire. Only someone fucking crazy is going to try to run in an semi. You can't outrun a two way radio, and you can't hide a truck that big.
dramaticflare
They are designed to try and deflect wind to gain what little gas mileage bonus they can, not stop cars. Also, depending on who owns that truck, it may be governed down to 80, 70, or 65 miles an hour. The police could literally just follow along behind it, it's not like it could ever accelerate away or outrun them.
jacblake
th3guy
Ramming anything still risks disabling your own vehicle either because debris gets trapped under or it defeats your own crumple zone and impacts your engine. It’s a trick, not a tank. That said, spike strips still work to remove tires and fuck up the axle and drive shaft to disable it.
th3guy
truck** not trick.
JARNSB
2 things. 1, why is this not set to East Bound and Down. And 2, where is his trans am running interference?
wiggadewah
Smokey and the Bandit /gallery/6u0UdcC
DocTanner
Did they damage it somehow? Why's it cruising along all dancy-like?
soniclettuce
you can see its got a traffic cone or something stuck under the front bumber
soniclettuce
*bumper
YouThinkImEspeciallyNotAGenius
If only a good guy with an 18 wheeler was there
Columbus43219
Wasn't this the opening scene from Beverly Hills Cop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiuBWPKHTPA
PotatoPirateTheThird
three different perspectives, all filmed vertically. ugh
Srcsqwrn
I don't really mind vertical filming, however I do have a problem with them not keeping th3 subject in focus :c
Ghlargh
If only there was some more effective way of capturing a scene that's mainly in the horizontal plane. Oh well, i can dream right?
lightfoot2
I don't get it. Why is he alive? Oh wait......
Promethianfire
Probably because a semi with a dead guy at the wheel would do incredible and likely fatal damage to anyone nearby, including the cops.
thisisjunk
I can't white put my finger on why they wouldn't just shoot the driver.
lightfoot2
It just seems white I guess.
Uscombs
Whats the deal with the shaking cab?
DALLASLAVOWNER
as eddie money sang, there's a whole lot of shaking going on /gallery/6u0UdcC
HsuDoNihm
The driver was super-pissed at all the people vertically filming a landscape action scene; his tantrum shakes the cab.
GSA1386
At some point during the pursuit the 18 wheeler realized the jig was up and started shaking its head no as a form of protest. Unfortunately it was being controlled by the person inside so it had no choice but to continue on.
backrideup9
The driver is doing it on purpose. There's another gif going around of it on the freeway just wobbling in synch for the whole gif.
Gooooodmoooorrrningmuchwow
Well...it is a freight shaker for a reason
akmck
If this truck is a'rockin then don't bother knockin'.
triggrhaapi
The driver. You can see the wheels turning very slightly from this angle. /gallery/6u0UdcC
flordelasantillas
The link has the reporter claiming a broken front axle.
MageMana
The poor thing is scared to death :(
RenaissanceFaireMan
Did one of the sheriffs throw some spike strips?
CrispyNougat
That's what I thought he did, but can't be sure from the video.
ChristopherHallett
It's a Freightliner, they all do that over about 50 mph.
KirbyUOR
Freightshaker!
nobodyspecial995
Known as a death wobble, I've never seen it in an 18-wheeler before. It's pretty easy to correct from, but requires that you reduce speed, and know what you're doing.
onecowboytoo
It definitely looks like they hit a curb or something and knocked it out of alignment.
ryukochan
On a skateboard that’s called speed wobbles. And it’s terrifying.
T3NM1DG3TS
Can’t you also accelerate into it?
GreenMnM
It is possible to accelerate through it but it's MUCH safer to alow down to stop it. It's possible the death wobble will get so bad it'll brake your axles or sheer the lug nuts off of your car or truck before you can fix it with speed. You have to have a whole lot of faith in your vehicles parts before you can do that and I for one, will never have that much faith in car parts no matter how much I love my truck
T3NM1DG3TS
OldnFatBobba
death wobble would be much, much higher frequency. I've hand to handle them on bicycle, motorcycles, and old farm trucks with manual steering.
theredacted
I don’t think anything more than 3 wheels do that, but alright
theredacted
Except skateboards
nobodyspecial995
I've had it happen to me in trucks
theredacted
Fair enough than I’ve definitely had it happen to me on motorcycles but never in my truck or car
TotallyNotVillain
Death wobble only happens with certain types of suspensions, most commonly solid axles like those found on Jeeps and older pickups. New Jeep Wranglers actually have a steering damper to try to prevent and reduce the severity of death wobbles.
ElbowDeepInUserSub
When you want to be a silly goose, you can crank the wheel back and forth rapidly and it'll do that. Never seen anyone do that in an 18 wheeler before though.
Uscombs
Looks like he won't be running for too long
myotheralt
I do that often in my car. Dance with the music.
myotheralt
Not the running from the cops part, though.
nicky512
They said he was shaking the steering wheel. …and guess what they found in the cab? I guess the meth was so good he couldn’t keep still. Florida man strikes again!
Acc87
too consistent even through corners to be induced by the driver. Pretty sure its just fucked up front alignment, maybe hooped a curb or somethuing
nicky512
Yeah, I agree, it had to be something else. I’m a truck driver myself, but I’ve never experienced something like that. I was just mentioning what the report said, it was the reason they pulled him over in the first place.
jabike2424
At about 44-45 seconds in, you can see something stuck under the front bumper. I’m assuming that’s what’s causing it.
KilledbyEnnui
You can see the cop throw something under it right before it gets onto the entrance ramp, i had just assumed it was spike strips and it didn’t blow out all the tires or something
jabike2424
Or just whiffed…
onecowboytoo
That just looks like one of those plastic road drums. I's say they hit a curb at some point and knocked the alignment out.
TomBrokaw
The linked video says the chase started when other drivers reported the wobble
KilledbyEnnui
Where does it say that? They reported wreck less driving when he almost hit someone head on
TomBrokaw
In the video that OP linked, it's at 3:25: "the chase began after multiple drivers reported the front cabin wobbling"
Waxilliam
yep, that's way more likely than the "silly goose" theory :-D
thedarkcanuck
I had a coworker at a trucking company who was heading back from Montreal when a goose crashed through his windshield. Somehow the goose was okay, and apparently it spent a few minutes sitting on the floor of the truck, staring down the driver and his little dog before eventually leaving through the open passenger door. Didn't even offer to pay for the windshield.
Waxilliam
we are farmers, bum bum bum bum bumbumbum
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