We’ve seen loads of unsuccessful drawbridge bounce makes an attempt in our lives, however this Audi Q5 thief managed to (considerably) pull it off.
We’ve all seen our fair proportion of flicks and TV exhibits with dramatic car chase scenes, a few of that are real looking, however for essentially the most half, exhibit issues that, nicely, merely aren’t doable. That usually doesn’t matter, nonetheless, as a result of these scenes exist only for dramatic effect, in fact. Time and time once more, we’ve seen people try to mimic sure small and massive display stunts in actual life, typically with much less profitable outcomes, however that wasn’t precisely the case with a thief that made off in somebody’s Audi Q5 in Seattle, Washington just lately.
Quite, in accordance with KIRO 7 information, the individual behind the wheel of this Audi Q5 discovered themselves on the mistaken finish of a police chase after the legislation noticed the stolen SUV sitting in visitors, ready because the College Bridge at Portage Bay was raised as much as let a water-going vessel move beneath.
As one may think, that appeared like a good time to apprehend the suspect with out having to fret about them making an attempt to flee. Nevertheless, the motive force had different concepts.
As an alternative of surrendering, the thief as a substitute opted to maneuver into the oncoming visitors lane, hit the gasoline, and smash via the limitations, then proceed to leap the drawbridge, identical to one thing out of a film scene. We’ve seen folks attempt to bounce drawbridges previously, solely to wind up wrecked on the opposite aspect – or worse, within the water beneath – however on this case, they in some way amazingly caught that touchdown.
After this miraculous stunt, the Audi Q5 driver merely continued to drive away, as a result of as one may think, the police weren’t going to try to do the identical, doubtlessly risking life and limb. Regardless of efficiently executing this spectacular feat, the motive force wound up ditching the SUV close to Northeast forty second Avenue and Pasadena Place Northeast, the place police discovered it with numerous injury – a damaged windshield and a “destroyed” undercarriage, in accordance with legislation enforcement, which isn’t precisely a shock – we aren’t speaking about some lifted monster truck right here, in spite of everything.
As for the perpetrator, nicely, they managed to get away, not less than, for now, even despite help from the native police helicopter unit. The legislation notes that the motive force might have suffered some accidents because of this incident, however for now not less than, it appears as if somebody really managed to tug off the kind of stunt usually solely reserved for fictional eventualities.
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