Chasing a runaway jeepney

[scharnhorst]

Good morning tsikoteers, there's something that just happened a couple of minutes ago.

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As I was passing into t. sora, from commonwealth, I saw a yellowboy flag down a jeepney. When I was pulling alongside the jeep, it suddenly cut into my lane and sped away.

It could have ended there, but no!

This traffic officer apparently noticed that the following vehicle was a pickup truck, so he knocked at my window (sana di nya ako nakita. dark naman tint ko sa gilid e), and called for a police officer. At this point I realized what they intended to do, and knew that I had no choice but to follow that jeep.

So they boarded the bed, and I tried to chase down the jeep along tandang sora, with MANY close calls along the way (t. sora is essentially a 2-lane road, even if it has 4 or 3 lanes). The jeep was obviously trying to get away - it was accelerating hard throughout, and cutting vehicles left and right, and was also actively preventing me from overtaking. At some point the driver almost hit a car head-on. He was paying no attention to either the shouting of the officers, nor to the continuous beeping of the air horn.

The chase ended when he tried to overtake vehicles right before the pasong tamo bridge (near seaoil), and was boxed in by vehicles and a dead end. He apparently realized that it was futile, and stopped his vehicle.

When he was apprehended, I heard him shout out

"WALA AKONG PRENO!"

What the hell? I ran away right after this.
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Some tsikoteers have pointed out that this was legal, so I don't take anything against the officers. It was simply an unsettling experience. I coudn't imagine the consequences if I failed to halt that jeepney. Also, I just left those officers there with the driver. I wonder if they were expecting a ride back to the intersection.

I never imagined participating in a police chase.

I'm much more pissed at that jeepney driver. Granted, he may have had no violation, but making excuses na wala syang preno? oh come on. We're not stupid. He won't dare drive that fast if he didn't have brakes.

Sana hindi ako balikan ng kumag na yon.



Good day, and ingat kayo lagi!

[s_quilicot]

sana

Good morning tsikoteers, there's something that just happened a couple of minutes ago.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As I was passing into t. sora, from commonwealth, I saw a yellowboy flag down a jeepney. When I was pulling alongside the jeep, it suddenly cut into my lane and sped away.

It could have ended there, but no!

This traffic officer apparently noticed that the following vehicle was a pickup truck, so he knocked at my window (sana di nya ako nakita. dark naman tint ko sa gilid e), and called for a police officer. At this point I realized what they intended to do, and knew that I had no choice but to follow that jeep.

So they boarded the bed, and I tried to chase down the jeep along tandang sora, with MANY close calls along the way (t. sora is essentially a 2-lane road, even if it has 4 or 3 lanes). The jeep was obviously trying to get away - it was accelerating hard throughout, and cutting vehicles left and right, and was also actively preventing me from overtaking. At some point the driver almost hit a car head-on. He was paying no attention to either the shouting of the officers, nor to the continuous beeping of the air horn.

The chase ended when he tried to overtake vehicles right before the pasong tamo bridge (near seaoil), and was boxed in by vehicles and a dead end. He apparently realized that it was futile, and stopped his vehicle.

When he was apprehended, I heard him shout out

"WALA AKONG PRENO!"

What the hell? I ran away right after this.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Some tsikoteers have pointed out that this was legal, so I don't take anything against the officers. It was simply an unsettling experience. I coudn't imagine the consequences if I failed to halt that jeepney. Also, I just left those officers there with the driver. I wonder if they were expecting a ride back to the intersection.

I never imagined participating in a police chase.

I'm much more pissed at that jeepney driver. Granted, he may have had no violation, but making excuses na wala syang preno? oh come on. We're not stupid. He won't dare drive that fast if he didn't have brakes.

Sana hindi ako balikan ng kumag na yon.



Good day, and ingat kayo lagi!

bro, gandang expirience yan .. hehehe .. ano walang brakes? hmm di mo binat*kan? ok na yun atleast naka tulong ka sa mga yellowboys ..

[drey]

Galing naman ng experience na yan... hehehe..

[CVT]

I am certain it was a scary experience. I had a similar one some years ago, when I rode with a policeman on a motorbike, chasing a confirmed carnapper and a girl-companion. (Hey! it was my car!).... It's a pity (but on hindsight, it was actually a relief) that we did not corner them. Else, I am almost certain that they'll be part of the earth by now and my car would have been riddled by bullets and splattered with...... Anyway, I recovered the car, which they left abandoned a few kilometers from where we encountered them....

6000:mobile:

[rai2k8]

galing! :thumbup:

[coiter]

grabe din no. totoo palang nangyayari na nacocommandeer ang sasakyan para manghabol. pero thank God na rin na simpleng jeepney driver na may traffic violation lang ang hinabol nyo. kung sindikato pa yan o bank robber naku malamang butas butas na sasakyan mo at baka hindi mo na naikwento sa amin ito. ingat na lang next time and bravo for helping out!

[scharnhorst]

Thanks for the concern. Actually, ngayon ko nalang naisip na pwede pala akong mabaril kung armado yung hinahabol... Ang main concern ko kanina e mabangga, o kaya magitgit nung jeep

I wonder kung ano violation nung hinayupak na yon

[judoman]

tama sir. mahirap po pag may baril na. pero buti nakatulong kayo na mahuli yun. acton star ang dating! bat naman po kasi wala mga panghabol na mobile or motor yung mga yellowboys.. kaya siguro naisipan na tumakas ng dyip na yun.
pero galing parin.

[vhenok]

Nice one Sir

Its a good thing nothing bad happened sa iyo at sa vehicle mo.

Which made me ask, what if ung vehicle mo ang naaksidente? will the officer be responsible for it? If not, will the insurance accept the details of this incident during claim?

[CVT]

Nice one Sir

Its a good thing nothing bad happened sa iyo at sa vehicle mo.

Which made me ask, what if ung vehicle mo ang naaksidente? will the officer be responsible for it? If not, will the insurance accept the details of this incident during claim?

Now, that is a good question.....

6000:mobile:

[otot85]

kung ako siguro yun maiisip ko ang gas ng sasakyan ko, mahal mahal na ng gas ngayon eh makikigamit pa mga yellow boys na yan..

[scharnhorst]

Nice one Sir

Its a good thing nothing bad happened sa iyo at sa vehicle mo.

Which made me ask, what if ung vehicle mo ang naaksidente? will the officer be responsible for it? If not, will the insurance accept the details of this incident during claim?

Warning na siguro sa mga hapless pickup drivers out there. I hope this doesn't happen again, to me or to anybody else. Kung iisipin nagkalat sa t.sora yung mga vios at supercarry ng mga pulis

I have no idea about insurance claims. I was hoping the police officer (the blue boy) would help me out on that one

[mbeige]

Don't you wish a minigun was a standard feature on your car during those fleeting moments?

[mazingerZ]

A .50 caliber machine gun installed on the pickup truck bed would have been nice. Ala technical hehehe. . . .

[m777]

hope this wont happen to any of us.

as if the police will care when your car sustained damage while chasing the bad guy.

pag nagkaganun siguro sabihin sayo ng police "sorry sir and thank you"

just my 2cents.

peace!

[scharnhorst]

My thoughts exactly. Malamang wala silang paki kung madamage man yung auto

* mbeige and mazingerZ

parang ganito ba?

[m777]

ok na ok sir kung ganyan ang panghahabol sa mga criminal dito. hehehe..

astig!

[ronw123w124]

Kung ako yon, di ako papayag na gawing panghabol ang sasakyan ko. Malas lang ng TS kasi pick-up sasakyan nya, kung ako yung nasa sitwasyon nya, itatabi ko ang sasakyan ko at magpapalusot ako sa mga yellow boys na sira ang sasakyan ko sabay tabi ng sasakyan.

[afrasay]

OA naman yun mga yellow boys na yan. Siguro kung life and death or carnapping situation pede, pero kung mere traffic violation lang di bale na. pede naman nilang kunin yun plate number tapos abangan nalang nila pag dumaan sa lugar na yun. kitid talaga ng mga utak. Tama yun isang poster, they wouldn't care if nakasabit ka ng ibang motorist sa daan.

[scharnhorst]

Baka kelangan ng almusal. mga 7:20 am yun nangyari e

Kung tutuusin, parang wala naman ginagawang out of the ordinary yung driver (for jeeps, na alam naman nating di sumusunod sa karamihan ng traffic rules).

though baka may violation nga syang ginawa (since mukhang hinahabol na ng totoong pulis yun bago pinara ng yellow boy).

Nagready pa yung driver na tumakas, kasi binaba nya bigla lahat ng pasahero nya nung tinakbuhan nya yung yellow boy.