--- Glenn Ellingson <geewiz@mac.com> wrote:
> On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:08 AM, J C wrote:
> Yeah, but you weren't on course the first time they
> turned on the sirens. I wasn't expecting to be
> chased!
>
> :-)
So was your first reaction to slow down or go faster
<hehe>?
> Seriously, though, I think the most fun I ever had
> with cars involved police cars, and police officers
> even. And getting chased. And chasing the cops, too.
> Am I the biggest road hazard you ever heard off?
> Maybe,but not on that day. The local (to west
> central florida) miata club autocrossed on a police
> training lot, and one day we convinced them to give
> a bunch of us a 1-day version of their police driver
> training program. The first thing they do is put you
> in the cruiser with two officers and have you
> chase a guy through a very tricky course. One of the
> officers is videotaping, and the other guy? He's
> screaming at you, yelling at you about how you're
> driving, what you're about to hit, how slow you
> are.... It's supposed to simulate the distractions
> during a real chase. It works, too :).
That sounds like a blast, I'd definitely enjoy
something like that. If you'd like to relive the
experience I'd be more than happy to sit in your
passenger seat and yell at you at the top of my lungs
<hehe>. :-D
> And it's kinda fun just plowing along in the crown
> vic with the sirens blaring, even if I did learn
> that the vic just can't catch a miata in the city
:).
Row, row, row your car gently down the road! For such
a porky car I'm surprised it didn't have more body
roll than it did. I'm sure they do a number of mods to
their vehicles though. I doubt the stock suspension is
designed to be able to drive over curbs.
> The biggest difference from what we do? When a new
> recruit takes their test they have to complete the
> course (chasing a "rabbit", of course, with as many
> distractions as the trainer can create) in a certain
> time, and the cones represent *bystanders*. So if
> you hit one cone you fail the entire driving class,
> which can derail your plans to become a cop.
>
> -- Glenn
Now that's an element of stress that I don't need on
an autocross course.
Joe
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