Just Pin a Badge on Me . .. and Call Me Deputy Barb

A few months ago we found ourselves in the middle of a high-speed chase for a few seconds. Today was a little different, but still involved speeding cars.

Susan and I were starting out on our evening walk, when a car comes speeding up the quiet subdivision street. Close to 60 mph. Crazy, it's only a few blocks long and this was much too fast. I don't recognize it. Soon we see the car come back around the other way, make a few turns and still driving around in the subdivision (one way in and out).

Now I'm annoyed and decide to call the cops. While I am calling them, the driver turns a corner and stops a little ways from me. By now I have the police on the phone and we walk up to the back of the car and tell them the make/model and license plate.
When I say we walk up to the back of the car, we're less than six feet away.

I think I tell them there are two people in the car.

The police officer on the phone repeats the color/make to me and says that car has just eluded a motorcycle cop at at nearby intersection. He asks again where the car is and I tell them, it's still stopped just a few feet away from us and I give them the intersection. Then I tell them what way the car is facing and what way to the police should drive in to approach him. He asks me to stay on the phone with him and keep an eye on the car until the police arrive. No Problem...

A few moments later I tell him I hear the sirens.. He says "what, they're supposed to be coming in silently". Well they weren't. The police car comes in the way I tell them to and stops right in front of the car, a second one shows up seconds later from the other way and stops in back of him.

So I tell the cop on the phone that they're here and taking the guy of the car. He asks me to hold on a few more seconds and gets name/phone number.

Another police car and motorcycle cop show up and we go back to our power walk.

By the time we went around one long block, the girl passenger had apparently called her mom or a friend, as another car pulls up and eventually winds up taking her home.

The driver is taken away in one of the police cars, as the local wrecker shows up and is soon towing the car away. From the first phone call to the wrecker loading the car is no longer than fifteen to twenty minutes. No kidding.. Bethany Police are the best!