Stories of Badassity
Cops Stop Runaway Car, Evoke Erik Estrada
It took some quick thinking, and maybe an old TV show, for two Denver cops to stop a runaway car.
Twenty-year-old Angel Eck was driving her 1997 Pontiac Gunfire westbound on I-70 Friday night when the brakes failed and the accelerator stuck, sending her hurtling uncontrolled down the freeway.
"It had a mind of its own," Eck told The Associated Press Sunday. The car "kept accelerating, and my foot wasn't even down on the gas."
Eck turned on her hazard lights and dodged other vehicles, including tractor-trailers and a van full of children, at speeds of up to 100 mph. Nothing she tried slowed the car down.
"I probably went off the road three times trying to get around traffic," Eck told TheDenverChannel.
She tried calling the police, but her cell phone couldn't get a signal. After 45 frantic minutes, she reached a friend, who called 911.
Police cleared the freeway as Eck sped westwards. Meanwhile, officers Gary Ayers and Troy Bisgard decided to try something radical.
They got their cruiser right in front of Eck's car, then slowed down slightly so that she bumped them. It took miles, but both vehicles finally came to a peaceful stop.
Officer Kim Lovato said Ayers and Bisgard joked that they'd gotten their idea from an old episode of "CHiPs," the 1977-1983 television show about two motorcycle-riding California Highway Patrol officers.
"Whenever they had a runaway car on 'CHiPs,' this is exactly what Ponch and Jon would do," Lovato told TheDenverChannel. "One is brunette and one is blonde just like Ponch and Jon, and they did what they needed to do and it turned out just perfect."These are two bad ass mother fucking cops. For fuck's sake, they stopped a runaway car that was going 100 mph by ramming their own patrol car into it. I thought the only person who had ever done something like that before was me.
There is more to this story then we are getting from the media. I bet I know the whole deal here, for I have watched a lot of cop movies. In the article, a fellow officer says of the two cops that "one is brunette and one is blonde." Obviously he meant that one is a by the book White Cop who was recently paired up with a street wise and unconventional Black Cop. You see, the White Cop's former partner was gunned down in a 7-11 just a day before retirement.
Why was White Cop's partner killed? That's a dumb question. Obviously, weeks earlier, the partner had led a bust of some members of a major Hong Kong diamond smuggling ring and was going to testify against them in court. Now the chief witness has been eliminated and the Hong Kong crime lords will continue to smuggle diamonds, depriving revenue from the honest hard working executives at the DeBeers Corporation.
White Cop then made it his mission to bring down the diamond smuggling ring and get revenge for his partner. As fate would have it, the chief of police assigned him Black Cop a new partner. The two were complete polar opposites and didn't get along well at first. White Cop liked to listen to Bob Dylan, but Black Cop liked the rap. White Cop enjoyed grilled cheese sandwiches, while Black Cop enjoyed fried chicken and grape soda. They were quite a pair.
And it took awhile for the two to overcome their differences and get the bad guys. In fact, the first time they encountered two members of the diamond smuggling ring, they failed to catch them after a action packed and hilarious pursuit on foot through downtown Chinatown. The cops and smugglers were pushing over street vendors and falling into piles of fireworks. Then there was the confusion as the chase went straight through the parade for the stupid Chinese New Year. The cops nearly lost the smugglers in the confusion and the paper mache dragon.
Finally, White Cop spotted the smugglers carjack a sports car and take off. It looked like they had gotten a way for good. But Black Cop showed up on the scene with the patrol car, and a high speed chase to the freeway ensued. It was a dangerous maneuver. They had to swerve past civilian cars on the freeway as well as drive straight in between two semi trucks going the opposite way. All the while engaged in a gun fight with the fleeing smugglers.
Unfortunately, the smugglers got away by driving to the pier and flooring it as their car drove off a dock, flew through the air and landed on the top of a ship headed back to Hong Kong. The cops didn't attempt to jump the dock as well, because they were too busy arguing amongst themselves. Looking out at sea at sunset as the crooks were safely onboard the ship put a big dent in the egos of both cops. It appeared that their partner ship was over.
But saving the woman in the runaway car gave them new resolve. They had to work together to save her, and save her they did. Now they were ready to get back in action and bring the smugglers DOWN!
Girl survives 25-meter fall from 10th floor
NAGOYA -- A 4-year-old girl fell from the 10th-floor of an apartment block but evaded death after she landed on the roof of a car below, cushioning her fall, police said.
The girl reportedly suffered a broken leg and a fractured skull in the 25-meter fall, but remained conscious, police said.
Investigators said the girl had been with her mother in her 10th floor apartment in Nagoya's Kita-ku early on Monday evening. When her mother went outside to get some belongings, the girl used a chair to climb over the 110-centimeter-high fence on the veranda outside, but lost her grip and plummeted down.
A car was parked directly below where she fell, and she landed on the roof. The roof was dented by the impact of the fall, but the girl survived.
The mother heard the loud crash when the girl landed, and realized that her daughter had fallen down when she saw the door leading to the veranda open. (Wire reports, Japan, Feb. 3, 2004
This little girl is a pretty big badass too. She jumps out a 10th floor window and lands full force right onto a car. She has to be involved in this whole story somehow. No doubt she is the daughter of an important Hong Kong politician. The diamond smugglers were trying to kidnap her to force the Hong Kong politician to stop his crackdown on their smuggling. But she is a feisty little chink and escaped her would be captures Home Alone style by hitting them on the head with paint cans and such. Then they cornered her in one room, thinking they had her, but she knew her only way out was to jump out the window and she did. 10 stories on to a car. Let's see you do that and live. Fuck you, because you can't, because you're not as tough as a little girl.
Anyway, she came with her family to America, where White Cop and Black Cop were assigned to protect her after the saving the woman with the runaway car. The took the girl to the motel on the edge of town. But bad luck hit them again as the smugglers sent a whole shitload of ninjas to track down the girl. Of course the ninjas were able to locate her at the motel because you can't hide from a ninja, no way.
A fight broke out between the ninjas and cops, with the little girl kicking some ass as well. Luckily, the ninjas were not highly skilled; they were the type of ninjas who will always lose a fight even when they outnumber their opponents 10-1 because they always attack individually and never attack at the same time. That is not a good ninja attack plan, because you have at most three ninjas doing fighting at any moment while the other 27 ninjas are just standing around the room, leaning against the wall, waiting for their turn and watching some free HBO. This isn't baseball, and your team isn't up to bat, ninjas; you not supposed to take take turns. This is an honest to god ninja fight and you can't sit around. For some reason, few ninjas pick up on this.
The cops and little girl were winning the ninja fight and had beaten back almost all the ninjas when all of the sudden 300 pound Big Ninja Dude burst onto the scene. In one fell swoop, he grabbed the girl and took off. The cops tried to fight him, but Big Ninja Dude was impervious to their blows. White Cop tried to punch him in the stomach, but the stomach was so hard, White Cop busted his hand and had to back away while Black Guy was being held back by two ninjas. Big Ninja Dude just laughed as he disappeared into the night with the little girl and ninja crew. It looked like the cops were defeated, but they still had one card up their sleeve. They grabbed a ninja before he could escape, and beat his ass until he told him where they took the girl. Captured Ninja revealed that the secret base of the diamond smugglers was an empty warehouse at the docks. The two cops knew what was up next. It was time for:
THE FINAL SHOWDOWN AT THE WAREHOUSE AT THE DOCKS!
It was the dead of night when White Cop and Black Cop snunk into the docks. For some reason, they went alone without contacting the station for extra men, but we have to just chalk this up to these two bad motherfuckers knowing the score. They took out several guards using stealth attacks. Behind some crates they observed the criminals packing diamonds and loading them into boats. They also saw the Criminal Mastermind atop the warehouse, with Big Ninja Dude next to him holding the girl. The Criminal Mastermind was overseeing the shipment of smuggled diamonds. It was time for action.
An explosion occurs! The two cops charge, fighting off various ninja gang members in hand to hand combat. Using the sudden confusion, the little girl bit the hand of Big Ninja Dude, making him cry in pain and allowing the girl to escape. Criminal Mastermind saw that the cops were winning, so he made haste to flee the scene. With the warehouse on fire, everyone scrambles to get out. The Cops find Criminal Mastermind out on the docks preparing to get away by boat. A brief gun fight occurs in which White Cop is wounded in the leg. The docks explode and everyone fall into the water.
Out of no where, police back up arrive and what's left of the docks are swarming with squad cars as police pull our heroes from the water and round up all of the diamond smuggling crew including Criminal Mastermind. Little girl is reunited with her father, and White Cop is loaded onto an ambulance. Black Cop catches up to him.
The two cops stood by the pier looking out into the sunrise. They had to admit to each other that in the end, they do make a great team and it was good to know each other. Just then, the chief popped by. He told the two that he wants them to look into some factory break ins that might be related to the Russian Mafia, as soon as White Cop heals. It looks like the two cops have a new assignment, and are going to be partners for awhile longer. Fade out, cue credits.
