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[ChrisReid]

Looks like another crazy person got ahold of a bulldozer.. This time it was a kid and a large construction site machine http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/03/bulldozer.chase/index.html

(CNN) -- A 14-year-old boy who allegedly stole a bulldozer and led Tucson, Arizona, police on a 15-mile chase was critically wounded Thursday night when officers fired on the tractor as it sped toward them, a police official said.

The unidentified teen was in critical condition after being airlifted to a hospital, according to Tucson Assistant Police Chief Kermit Miller.

He apparently began his ride after stealing the large earthmover from a construction site, Miller said.

The chase began at about 8 p.m. (10 p.m. EDT) after police noticed scattered power outages in a neighborhood on Tucson's east side. They soon realized the Caterpillar bulldozer had knocked down utility poles along the road, Miller said.

He said the teen drove the construction vehicle up to 30 miles per hour at times with as many as 15 police cruisers chasing him.

After a 15-mile chase, the bulldozer turned around in an eastside Tucson residential area and began driving downhill toward the police cruisers, Miller said. That was when two officers fired shots, with at least one round hitting the teen, Miller said.

"We're assuming he was going to go over the vehicles in the roadway with the officers in them," Miller said.

Miller said police had no other way to stop the large vehicle other than to shoot.

There were no other injuries, Miller said.

Along the chase route, some utility poles and other property was damaged, he said.

 

[Koshiro]

He said the teen drove the construction vehicle up to 30 miles per hour at times with as many as 15 police cruisers chasing him.

"He's moving too slowly, let's get out and chase on foot!"

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

I'm starting to think I wasted my teenage years not stealing bulldozers...

 

[FortNinety]

Maybe this is for the gaming topic, but anyone ever play that old PS2 game where you battled in construction vehicles?

 

[LakeEarth]

N64, Blast Corps? Oh, like battle fight... I dunno.

And wow... a bulldozer can hit 30mph? That's pretty impressive.

 

[AB 101]

Nintendo game causes rampage.

News at 11.

 

[aoi tsuki]

An excoworker of mine was telling me how his 18-year old son went out a few nights ago with friends in the car of one of their parent's car, knocking down mailboxes and causing some damage to the car. Then they went home and smoked some weed. When he got home from work, the cops were standing at his front door.

i just can't wrap my head around the desire to go out and destroy other people's property, especially those that do it and record it on videotape. Idiots.