A car chase is the vehicular pursuit of suspects by law enforcers. Car chases are often captured on film and broadcast due to the availability of video footage recorded by police cars and police and media helicopters participating in the chase. They are a popular subject with media and audiences due to their intensity and drama and the innate danger of high-speed driving.
Car chases occur when a suspect attempts to use a vehicle to escape from law enforcement attempting to detain or arrest them. The assumed offence committed may range from misdemeanours such as traffic infractions to felonies as serious as murder. When the suspect realizes that they have been spotted by law enforcement, they attempt to lose their pursuers by driving away, sometimes at high speed. In 2002, 700 pursuits were reported in the city of Los Angeles.
Police use a number of techniques to end chases, from pleading with the driver, waiting for the driver's vehicle to run out of gas, or hoping the driver's vehicle becomes somehow disabled to more forceful methods such as boxing in the vehicle with police cruisers, ramming the vehicle, the PIT maneuver, shooting out the tires, or the use of spike strips, though all efforts, many of which pose risk to all involved as well as bystanders, will be aimed at avoiding danger to civilians. When available, a helicopter may be employed, which in some cases, may follow the vehicle from above while ground units may or may not be involved. The StarChase system as of summer 2009 was in use by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.
The term motorcar has also been used in the context of electrified rail systems to denote a car which functions as a small locomotive but also provides space for passengers and baggage. These locomotive cars were often used on suburban routes by both interurban and intercity railroad systems.
There are approximately 600 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; the engines of these burn over a billion cubic meters (260 billion US gallons) of petrol/gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.
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Kevin Joseph "Chuck" Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best-known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman.
Connors was born Kevin Joseph Connors in Brooklyn, New York, second of two children and only son of Allan and Marcella Connors, emigrants from the Dominion of Newfoundland. He was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
His sister found out Connors didn't like his first name and was looking at a number of possible first-name changes: he tried out "Lefty" and "Stretch" before settling on "Chuck", because while playing first base, he would always yell, "Chuck it to me, baby, chuck it to me!" to the pitcher. The rest of his teammates and fans soon caught on and the name stuck. He loved the Dodgers despite their losing record during the 1930s. Connors knew that he too would be a Dodger, like: Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Billy Cox, Ralph Branca, Preacher Roe and Carl Erskine, the participants of the great championship team that Connors was part of, the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1949.
(Alright)--> James Brown
(Hit me)
[ VERSE 1 ]
Turn up the bass... I'm in a car chase
Cops on my tail, but can't keep pace
Just robbed a bank, now I'm pullin rank
Step to the curb of my tank
Sirens sound aloud, police gettin their orders
To stop me from reachin the border
Come on, coppers, you got to move faster
My Suzy with the Uzi, she's a cop-blaster
Gunnin, runnin red light after red light
Oh shit, I just hit a dyke - sike
Cops thought they had me
But a 360 turn just freed me
Road block is nothin but a fragile line of defense
It got me so damn tense
This is no fantasy, no dream
Put yourself into my scene
One hand on the steering wheel, the other holds a nine
At the same time bustin a rhyme
In like Flynn, out like Scout
Bustin caps, flexin, plexin criminal clout
In a car chase
[ VERSE 2 ]
Not one but two forces are tailin me
There's no way those suckers will jail me
My honey with the money said, "Look, Dee
Gas tank getting closer to E"
I spare the fifth gear, spillin my beer
Olde Gold all over my gear
Now I'm madder than a pitbull ready to clam down
On my face is a evil frown
In hyper space like a Indy car race
Another clip in the nine I place
Police car pulls up to the left of me
So I go on and shoot in spree
I stopped when it smashed head on with a Mack truck
Then explode, as I watch it and even duck
For cover I'm fiendin just like a demon
Jump out of my car, people are screamin
I dragged this dude with an attitude from his car
Right in front of Silky Slim bar
Pedal to the metal, power I'm flexin
Yeah, I'm fuckin up today's election
Cause on the headlines I will take his place
Cops gonna catch him in a wild car chase
[ VERSE 3 ]
Their all-out bulletin is gettin furious
I guess now they will take me serious
As a cop was bustin at me but missin
(You stupid nigger!) Yo, who are you dissin?
Then I thought to myself I wanted to choke him
Oh fuck it, the Dee will smoke him
Bang! Then hit acceleration
That's what you get for trying my patience
Kid cross the street, I can't come to a halt
So I drive up the sidewalk
My girl was trigger-happy as she bust around
Two more cop cars are down
Helicopter sounds getting closer to the ground
??? border-bound
Air raids goin off as they're warnin the people
That this brother is lethal
I'm tellin you, don't try to equal
There will be no sequel
For the faces of death I'm leavin behind
With a passion for crime
In a car chase
[ VERSE 4 ]
It seem like a nation of cops are goin my way
As I wheel and deal on to the highway
Causing panic to the other motorists
They never seen a underground terrorist
Pull a grenade and blow up a cop barricade
As the clouds of smoke start to fade
Out of the frame I'm faster than the speed of light
As I hold my weapon real tight
The force of steel show just how I feel
Police bullet shatters my windshield
Bonnie & Clyde, not the past, but the present, y'all
How many times they're at the police ball?
Zero, cause they're goin to funerals
You disagree, then you're next for a burial
This is no TV drama, robbers and cops
On my mind is - hip-hop
While the last cop tailin me, I should stop him
But there's no need for Dee to pop him
I spared his life so he can call headquarters
Hey scoot over let me drive
Let's go wreck your old man's ride
Honk the horn let's scare old bags
Let's show off these bitchin' mags
There's a dog let's squish it good
Terrorize the neighborhood
On the highway drunk as shit
There's the pigs let's step on it
Hey scoot over let me drive
I wanna fuck this chick while I'm still alive
Shut your mouth or it's your ass