Posted by free1 (anonymous) on August 31, 2008 at 3:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I thank GOD that we have law enforcement officers who risk it all to try to catch a NUT!!! like this. GOOD job guys and don't worry people like this always mess up again.

Posted by Katherine_Reece (anonymous) on August 31, 2008 at 1:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I wonder if this is the same fool that keeps coming up my road (Co Rd. 77) on his motorcycle... I never see him but boy do I hear him roaring by at the speed of light!

Posted by mugshot35046 (anonymous) on August 31, 2008 at 3:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)

well i just dont understand i was listening to it all when it was going on the city did a real good job when the speeds hit the 130 mark they called it off due to safety but the county picked it up. they did not have anything on the man so the city did not want anyone to get hurt so why did the county keep going with it only to lose him anyway there is a time to stop before anyone got hurt just shows how much the county cares for us

Posted by November162000 (anonymous) on August 31, 2008 at 5:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I am by no means in favor of the fools who run at high speed from law enforcement, they put us all at risk on the road. However, when you add to that some law enforcement officers who (some, not all) have egos bigger than their patrol cars and who don't want to be outrun by the speeder, well then, it becomes harder to tell who is the bigger fool, and we are all at an even greater risk. I'm glad that the city had enough sense to knock it off, if that's the way it went down. As I said, I'm not pulling for the speeder but somewhere along the line you have to show a little better sense than the person you are chasing, before someone is killed. A speeder on a motorcycle could hurt someone else on the road, true enough, but he's much more likely to only kill himself, the patrol car on the other hand could kill a lot of people. Let him go, don't put us in greater danger, and try to get him next time. When you finally do catch him, make sure he understands the error of his ways.

Posted by PhilBurnette (anonymous) on August 31, 2008 at 7:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

We live out Highway 22, outside the city limits. We have county and state officers patrolling out our way but we still have problems with these "crotch rocket" riders who insist on going as fast as their cycles will go. We will have a serious incident out here. It is just a matter of time before one of these people kills themself or some innocent person minding their own business.

We also have problems with trucks and other large vehicles speeding through here. Log trucks, dump trucks, you name it, we see them all being foolish. If officers would set up at the radio station or nearer County Road 37 they would catch many more speeders.

These bad apples give all motorcycle riders and truck drivers a bad name by acting recklessly and foolishly. I hope our law enforcement can put a stop to some of it.

Posted by 1oldman (anonymous) on September 11, 2008 at 9:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

If the bad guys had common sense, then law enforcement wouldn't have to persue them. The general public thinks because enforcement slows down, the speed lowers, however, when it started usually it was because speed or a serious safety violation was involved, and the persuit has only adds to the ego of the speeder, and he/she is in flight mode, feeling invincible and does not respond to the lack of persuit, they continue on still trying to get away.

At a hundred miles plus, a motor cycle will and has gone completely into a vehicle and killed the driver after striking the vehicle on the passenger side. It is not uncommen to see those racing machines on our highways running at and above that speed, and will at times attempt to draw a law enforcement officer in a persuit, feeling that they can not handle as well as the cycle, and therefore feel they can easily escape the traffic arrest.

In spite of what some have suggested, most of our enforcement officers are schooled in persuit and defensive driving, and generally use good judgement, however no profession is without some controversal members, and law enforcement is no exception. I would however bet that they exibit a higher degree of professionalism than most among us.

To set the record straight, I am not now nor have I ever been employed by law enforcement in Chilton County, I am however retired from law enforcement outside the county and hate to see young men and women given a bum rap when they are going above and beyond to serve this community and keep the peace.