News of the weird

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

OMG! That episode was just on CHiPS last week! That may be the
quintessential episode of CHiPS, just as the _Blue Boy_ episode of
Dragnet is.

Nothing like sappy late 70s early 80s TV at 4:00 AM on TBS!

-Marc



-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Julie Macfarlane
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:00 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: News of the weird



On Jan. 30, as Angel Eck, 20, drove her Pontiac Sunfire on Interstate
70 
toward Denver, she suddenly could not slow down. The car was locked in

overdrive and climbed to 100 mph; the ignition would not disengage;
and the 
clutch and accelerator were stuck. A half-hour later, two enterprising

Denver police officers, having been alerted by cell phone and
reprising a 
tactic from the old "CHiPs" TV show, slowed the car by allowing it to 
repeatedly bump the rear of their squad car until it came to a stop. A
few 
days later, idling in the shop at Green Mountain Auto Service, the car

jumped gears and pinned a mechanic against an inside wall until a
colleague 
set the emergency brake. [Rocky Mountain News, 2-2-04; Denver Post,
2-13-04]


Julie Macfarlane
1981 MKI 2L 16v w 2Y
"For good health : EAT RICE!"
Amsterdam NY

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