No, I’m not commenting on the brouhaha that’s happening in Vegas. Enough people are already blabbin about that one.
What I’m talking about is the one I saw in Chandler last night. I really don’t know what was going on, but I heard a short siren go off twice, then we pulled up to Chandler Boulevard. Once we got there, we sat at a stop sign to watch the procession go by. The first car in the procession was a Toyota Camry going about 25-30 miles per hour (in a 45 mph zone), and it appeared that it may have been driven by a male of Asian descent, staring up into his rearview mirror with his mouth opened wider than the fly-catching champion of the world. The next car was a Chandler Police car, following with all of its lights going, and occasionally turning its siren on for a second to let the apparently clueless person in the Camry know that he would like him to pull over.
This alone would have been pretty funny. However, this slow-motion police chase also attracted some lookie-loos. People watching from the street? Nope. Now, keep in mind that this is a six-lane road, three lanes in each direction. But what we saw was directly behind the police car, traveling at the same slow rate of speed, were four other passenger vehicles, containing people that obviously had nothing better to do than to follow a 30 mile an hour chase through the streets of west Chandler.
We don’t know what happened next…because they turned a corner. All of them. The Camry was still going right along, the police car behind him, and the four other cars all just kept following.
The only thought that went through our heads at that time was that maybe this was our sleepy little town’s re-creation of the OJ chase….
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