Did anyone watch "COPS" Saturday Night

[louisnash]

Don't know if it was a re-run, but did anyone see the police officer get his car stuck at the diamond on "Cops" Sat. night. He was chasing a motorcycle and tried to go over the tracks but got stuck and a flat tire. Showed two UP coming his way but they both took sidings in the distance.

You could tell he was a little worried when he saw them coming.

I didn't catch where that was filmed either. Could someone let me know?

Brian (KY)

[UPTRAIN]

I think I saw that...what town was it?

[pmsteamman]

Ya dispatcher, this is train such and and such,,we just hit a car, no need to call the cops it was one of theirs.

[csxengineer98]

i saw that show.... what a dumb cop.... i loved it when the female cop came up with a big smile on her face and asked....so what happend here......lol.... that rookie learned a very powerfull lesson that day....dont chase a dirt bike on the rail road tracks...you will lose...lol..... i also liked it when the cop that got the car stuck on the tracks started to run down the track when that other train was comeing... he would have never made it in time to stop it...now that would have been something to see.... a cop gets his car stuck on the tracks..and then the crew from COPS fillms his car getting creamed by a UP train.....lol....
csx engineer

[louisnash]

It was a classic, csxengineer.

Brian (KY)

[Anonymous]

I WAS LAUGHING THE ENTIRE TIME!!! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

I couldn't believe that guy thought he was going to catch that dirt bike, what was he on?

I loved the way he just went full on into the tracks, and then at the last minute threw on the brakes!

Truly classic, his face was as red as a tomato.

....WISH I HAD RECORDED THAT ONE!

[UPTRAIN]

THAT ONE!!! I wi***hat train would have hit the car also!!! Good telivision!!! [:D]

[jeaton]

No

[Anonymous]

Hey, it serves the COPS right for all the times they illegally cross through warning gates right in front of us![soapbox]

[Anonymous]

I did happen to see that segment but for you guys to wi***hat the train would have actually hit the car is just wrong. Why?... OK- I'll admit I have intentionally derailed trains on my simulator but only to test the limits of the software(maybe to see the carnage-but it's not real so no-one gets hurt!). I was actually relieved to see that train turn-off.Yeah- lesson learned by the blue-shield but do we really need more accidents?

[TH&B]

Why?? because it's on TV!!

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by toyomantrains

I did happen to see that segment but for you guys to wi***hat the train would have actually hit the car is just wrong. Why?... OK- I'll admit I have intentionally derailed trains on my simulator but only to test the limits of the software(maybe to see the carnage-but it's not real so no-one gets hurt!). I was actually relieved to see that train turn-off.Yeah- lesson learned by the blue-shield but do we really need more accidents?

becouse it would have been funny....
csx engineer

[Mookie]

It was Des Moines, Iowa. I backed the tape up just to see where it did take place.

Mookie

[Anonymous]

Sounds like I missed a good show, althouhg i have somehting to say about Cops:

First off let me say, i don't appreciate wathcing people get arrested for petty crimes, the show is swinging so far to the right it's going to become like the chinese news media, were people get executed for stealing a loaf of bread, or posting that they like baseball on the internet.

I find the show somewhat purile, to be perfectly honest

But if it was a good show, hey it was a good one, and i missed it.

[Noah Hofrichter]

There was one other cops where an old lady drove her car down the railroad tracks and got stuck. They had to call the cops and as they were waiting for the tow truck a train started comming down the track, but they got the the dispatcher to tell the train to stop. I think it was a CSX train, but i could be wrong. I don't remember where it was filmed ethier.

Noah

[BaltACD]

Cops and Railroads don't mix (at least with non-railroad cops)

Several years ago the Newark, DE police were chasing a car and forced it to stop on the Main St. crossing, right in front of the Police Station, unfortunately an Eastbound train was beyond the point of being able to stop for the car on the track. The cops never got the opportunity to question the driver....he died at the scene.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

There was one other cops where an old lady drove her car down the railroad tracks and got stuck. They had to call the cops and as they were waiting for the tow truck a train started comming down the track, but they got the the dispatcher to tell the train to stop. I think it was a CSX train, but i could be wrong. I don't remember where it was filmed ethier.

Noah

WOW, that one was a LOOOOOOONG time ago, many years.....
I forgot about it untill you mentioned it.

That old lady was totally disoriented, there was no way that she should have been driving.

She mistook the railroad right of way for a major highway.

---That must have been some rough driving! [8)][:0]

[northwesterner]

I saw the show, and was intrigued by the fact that the cop's car was just feet south of a diamond and that both north and south-bound trains cut off to the East. Here's is an aerial view of where I think it happened. Go to http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=11&x=1128&y=11510&z=15&w=1
Does anyone know whose tracks these are today?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

There was one other cops where an old lady drove her car down the railroad tracks and got stuck. They had to call the cops and as they were waiting for the tow truck a train started comming down the track, but they got the the dispatcher to tell the train to stop. I think it was a CSX train, but i could be wrong. I don't remember where it was filmed ethier.

Noah

WOW, that one was a LOOOOOOONG time ago, many years.....
I forgot about it untill you mentioned it.

That old lady was totally disoriented, there was no way that she should have been driving.

She mistook the railroad right of way for a major highway.

---That must have been some rough driving! [8)][:0]

Mr Magoo did that in one of his episodes; he read "railroad crossings" as "right turn on Albaquerky" and almsot hit a train.

[kschmidt]

Greetings,

I wi***hat I would have seen that episode of "COPS". Especially since I am one. Well actually a Deputy Sheriff. "macguy" mentioned in his post "What was this cop on". Well he was on adrenaline. The adrenaline dump during a chase is incredible. Just running anytime with lights and sirens is going to get things pumping. Especially if this was a rookie cop he probably also had the attitude - "He committed a crime that son of a ^&* isn't going to get away from me because I'm the police. "

That attitude causes alot of stupid mistakes to be made. Like chasing a motorcycle and trying to drive over railroad tracks. He probably had to write alot of reports over that one. Although I see a similar attitude while railfanning, especially when chasing steam trains. Some of the driving that I witness from people trying to get that shot and no one is going to get in my way are scary. Like driving the wrong way on two-lane roads and of course speeding (because they're speeding more than me).

But to fini***hat officer will definitely learn from that one, in fact his co-workers probably didn't let him forget for a long time.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE:
Especially if this was a rookie cop he probably also had the attitude - "He committed a crime that son of a ^&* isn't going to get away from me because I'm the police. "

That's gotta be the case, watching this clip in retro-spective this guy must have been thinking "What was I thinking?"

Just watching the clip you knew there was no way he could of ever caught up to that dirt bike, especially not off-road.

----I'm sure the camera's added a little pressure to to the situation too. [:)]

[dekemd]

Chases look good on TV but in reality they're hard to do. You're trying to operate the lights and siren, trying not to hit anything, watch the suspect, drive, and use the radio all at the same time. The little road he turned onto was actually the sevice road to the diamond. It also ended at the diamond. When you have lots of adrenaline in your body, your senses start to do strange things. You get tunnel vision, where you eyes focus only on the threat or suspect and everything else just kind of blurs out. That's why he never saw the cross track until he was about to hit it.

I'm sure he got a major butt-chewing. Hopefully, he will realize that you can't catch them all and lose a little of that no-one-gets-away-from-me attitude.

Derrick

[Anonymous]

I saw the episode. Reminds me of an incident that happend just a few miles up the tracks from me last year. Seems a kid and his buddy decided to do a little drinking while Mom and Dad were out of town for the weekend. They jumped in the Cadillac, drove to the end of the road, and after going through the reflective markers, warning sign, and across the berm, managed to park the parents car crosswise of the UP tracks. They left the car to go and get a tow...only to return and find it had been converted to a compact...and moved several hundred feet south! One can only wonder the explaining that went on later that weekend.

[eolafan]

That officer will likely have quite a nick name from now on...perhaps "Choo Choo Charlie" or something similar.

[Anonymous]

That was hysterical...........

I have no idea why that Cop thought he could be able to clear that diamond......

The funniest thing was ....he was concerned about the tow truck driver messing up a tie-rod....I kind of think that that Crown Vic's suspension was pretty much toast after that incident.....

[Anonymous]

East side of Des Moines, Iowa.....along the UP Iowa Interstate...Good yard action on that side of town. DMPD aren't the smartest guys at times.

[DSchmitt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman



First off let me say, i don't appreciate wathcing people get arrested for petty crimes, the show is swinging so far to the right it's going to become like the chinese news media, were people get executed for stealing a loaf of bread, or posting that they like baseball on the internet.

Actually thats far to the LEFT, not right.

Most Cops are good people trying to do a very tuff job. They don't recieve the appreciation they deserve and when they make a mistake they are often held to an impossibly high standard.

They don't make the laws, they are charged with enforcing them,

[Anonymous]

I missed that one but I suspect my Chief of Patrol caught it on tape and will turn it into a training session about "stupid things not to do in front of TV cameras." It will probably rank up there with the Ft. Worth patrolman who broke in to and rescued an old woman from a raging house fire... only problem being that the house he broke into (camera crew in tow) wasn't on fire.
When I lived in Phoenix, AZ, the COPS crew came by. The public afffairs guy made sure that everyone was on their best behavior. The cops loved it because they didn't have to transport detainees- just call for a backup to take the bad guys away. Best of all, the police officers didn't have to spend time in some parking lot filling out tons of paperwork... someone else did it. Boy, a day without paperwork...
what a pleasant dream....
Erik

[tree68]

It wasn't COPS, and it wasn't a chase, but a young soldier got tired of waiting for a train that was tying up a crossing while doing some switching and headed off cross country in his Ford Explorer pickup. Probably figured that mighty 4 wheeler would have no problem clearing the tracks. He had a problem.

When I happened on the scene, it looked for all the world like train vs truck. Train never touched him, and may not have even been in motion when he tried to cross the tracks. I heard the engineer saying on the scanner "damnedest thing I've ever seen..."