Georgia Troopers Smack Down Car Theft Suspect

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Georgia Troopers Smack Down Car Theft Suspect

Georgia troopers are known for not treating fleeing suspects kindly, so to see them smack down this car thief is no surprise. The guy was in the wrong kind of car for running from Georgia State Patrol: a Ford Fusion. There’s been a bad track record with those sedans and police chases in the past.

Watch an Arkansas trooper PIT out a stolen C5 Corvette.

At least in this pursuit nobody died or was seriously injured, although the suspect got close to hitting innocent bystanders. He even caught some air.

Image via State Boyzzz/YouTube

In the dashcam footage you can see everything started off calm enough. Two troopers move into position behind the suspect vehicle after it’s been identified. Once they go lights and sirens the guy doesn’t just take off but instead drives like he’s trying to find a place to pull over.

The thing is there are a lot of good places to pull over and get arrested. He obviously is stalling, looking for an escape route with less traffic. Turning left, he finds it and punches the accelerator.

While a Ford Fusion might be great for blending in and stealing hotter rides, it’s not a good getaway vehicle. He can’t out-accelerate the GSP Dodge Chargers, even when he sends it at the railroad crossing and catches some decent air.

But the guy is obviously determined to make something out of nothing, so he keeps flogging the poor Fusion. But as he enters a freeway, one trooper swoops in and PITs him. The suspect obviously has done this before, because he just drives out of the PIT and keeps going.

That’s when a second trooper delivers one hell of a PIT, sending the Ford careening into a roadside barrier hard. It’s the end of the line for the sedan, but the suspected car thief seems to believe he’s some sort of track star.

For that effort, the guy earns a chomp in the leg by a K9 and a taser deployment before getting arrested.

Images via State Boyzzz/YouTube

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