Slow Speed Chase in Vancouver Leads to Arrest

Vancouver Police have arrested a 52-year-old man on suspicion of third-degree assault of an officer and malicious mischief, after he terrorized a neighborhood and led police on a slow speed chase on his lawn mower. A very slow speed chase, indeed. Police reported approximate speeds between 3 and 5 mph.

The man was found riding his lawn mower through a Vancouver neighborhood when residents began to return home from work. Police were called when he began yelling obscenities and angrily charged a resident. While on the phone with the police, the lawn mower bandit shattered a window of the man's home with a lawn chair. When Police responded, the suspect had already left the scene. He proceeded to cross a major Vancouver street on the lawn mower. Police pursued the suspect in their vehicles, easily surpassing the mower. Officers pulled their car in front of the lawn mower bandit and demanded him to stop. Continuing his list of ingenious decisions, the man attempted to hit a police officer with his mower. Unsurprisingly, the officer was able to get out of the way before he was hit by the slow-moving mower. Shortly after this failed attempt, the man was forcibly removed by several officers and arrested.

Seattlest is secretly hoping that Cops was being taped in Vancouver, WA, that day, or that the dashboard camera footage of this is leaked on YouTube. Soon.

It would have been a different chase entirely if this mower had been involved. "LawnChoppR Custom" courtesy of Flickr Contributor toolnorth