Jackie Chan is... SUPERCOP!

June 23, 2006 4:01 PM

High speed chase in which the pursuing cop shoots out the back window of the fleeing vehicle, leaps out of his own car onto the target car, climbs through the shotgunned window pane, and finally throws the driver out of the car, Terminator style.
posted by lilbrudder (40 comments total)

uh, make that "pursuing COP", not "copy."
posted by lilbrudder at 4:02 PM on June 23, 2006

what is that? I have a hard time thinking it's real.
posted by cell divide at 4:05 PM on June 23, 2006

That's a planned tactic !?!
posted by RufusW at 4:08 PM on June 23, 2006

Where was that? The license plates look European.
posted by birdherder at 4:09 PM on June 23, 2006

I know some cops personally and have a lot of respect for them. If this is real, that guy should be fired.

But I have a hard time believing this is real. The video, maybe, but no cop jurisdiction in America would approve of this, if only for the multiple lawsuits they'd incur pulling this stunt.
posted by bardic at 4:09 PM on June 23, 2006

It's completely fake... why would two dust clouds make the camera crackle, while hitting a bump does nothing to the image quality?

It's well done, but beyond looking like Hollywood stuntwork, the picture is too perfectly framed (unless the pursuing officer spent some time as a film student).
posted by grimcity at 4:10 PM on June 23, 2006

But I have a hard time believing this is real. The video, maybe, but no cop jurisdiction in America would approve of this, if only for the multiple lawsuits they'd incur pulling this stunt.

No cop jurisdiction in American has right-hand drive vehicles and European-width license plates either.
posted by delmoi at 4:18 PM on June 23, 2006

Awful polite of that frantic, all-over-the-road driver to hold still while the cop lines up his jump.
posted by cortex at 4:19 PM on June 23, 2006

Plus the cops are driving what apears to be a BMW.
posted by delmoi at 4:20 PM on June 23, 2006

Fake or not, uh... your post is kind of spoiler-heavy.
posted by notmydesk at 4:21 PM on June 23, 2006

Well the speed in the upper right is in kph, so most unlikely it is American. Still, I too think it is fake. Humm, option 1) soot at the driver, option 2) shoot out the tires... which do they do?
posted by edgeways at 4:21 PM on June 23, 2006

Probably fake. Note how the back up car totally peels off onto an exit as soon as possible after the guy makes his jump. You'd think that he'd continue to support the other officer.
posted by Ironmouth at 4:25 PM on June 23, 2006

The post as been MeTaed.
Just for referance.
posted by edgeways at 4:27 PM on June 23, 2006

The best part is when the perp's foot gets run over, but WTF is with that shotty smoke? I've fired plenty of regular-load shotguns of various caliber, and none of the EVER could produce that much thick smoke, especially in the rushing air of a car chase. I wonder what kind of rounds they were using?
posted by BeerFilter at 4:29 PM on June 23, 2006

I would like to think it is in Russia and I would like to think it is real, after all the guy does get his feet run over by the truck.
posted by 517 at 4:31 PM on June 23, 2006

Is that Norman Mineta jumping from the Beemer? Man, that guy knows transportation...
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:33 PM on June 23, 2006

Totally staged. They're driving the wrong way down a street with no traffic.
posted by mkultra at 4:36 PM on June 23, 2006

Dumb du dumb dumb.
posted by 2sheets at 4:45 PM on June 23, 2006

Maybe they were shooting at him with a blunderbuss.
posted by kirkaracha at 4:53 PM on June 23, 2006

It's an advertisement for a PSP game. You can see at the end it says "Pursuit Force." It's a little clearer in this video:

http://www.netsummary.dk/vis?u=http%3A//3x3m.com/mov/film/stopcar.swf

Discussed in this thread:

http://forum.ogrish.com/showthread.php?t=82841

Pretty cool stunts though.
posted by Blingo at 5:03 PM on June 23, 2006

I've fired plenty of regular-load shotguns of various caliber, and none of the EVER could produce that much thick smoke, especially in the rushing air of a car chase.

You've also fired shotguns during a car chase??

kirkaracha: tee hee
posted by papakwanz at 5:03 PM on June 23, 2006

Hehe, papakwanz, no, I haven't. I meant that, during the firing of various shotgun loads through the years while standing still, none have ever produced that much thick smoke, and the fact that these shots are allegedly fired from outside a moving vehicle, I would guess, based on all previous experience with smoke and fast-moving air, that the rounds used are not standard buckshot or birdshot loads. That's all I was saying.
posted by BeerFilter at 5:09 PM on June 23, 2006

So... you never fired shotguns during a car chase, right?

(so that's the feeling? Man, trolling is so easy...)
posted by cardoso at 5:32 PM on June 23, 2006

I believe the actor is supposed to be firing tear gas pellets, which generate a lot of smoke when fired.
posted by Blingo at 5:46 PM on June 23, 2006

The game homepage shows, you guessed it, players being able to jump from their cop car to the bad guy's vehicle.
posted by Ironmouth at 6:06 PM on June 23, 2006

:-( An ad. There needs to be a new flag on MeFi called "hidden advertisement".
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 6:11 PM on June 23, 2006

The video on the game site does nothing to make me want the game. Having a team of cops called the Pursuit Force does nothing. Having the video show in skewed text "Chase down the bad guys" does nothing. Having the crappy metal music also does nothing.

WTF? Did they just repackage spyhunter and slapped in on a current gen console?

Oh...the original vid gave me a chuckle.
posted by phyrewerx at 6:40 PM on June 23, 2006

This related video is pretty funny.
posted by delmoi at 6:46 PM on June 23, 2006

this one is pretty good as well.
posted by delmoi at 6:50 PM on June 23, 2006

Jesus christ, don't venture too far down the related videos list for police chases, I just watched two videos where the driver crashes at a high rate of speed, gets ejected, and then run over or crushed and killed.

Gruesome stuff, and it was live on TV.
posted by mathowie at 7:09 PM on June 23, 2006

Seems like kind of a doofy task force... Pursuit Force? After they pursue, do they call in the Apprehend Force? Then AF calls in the Book Throwing Force? Then the BTF calls in the Prison Shower Rape Force...?
posted by brundlefly at 7:09 PM on June 23, 2006

delmoi's first video is far too long and the basic joke is in the text summary to the right. The second one is shorter and worth watching.

[although I guess it's funny that the first one is long and tedious and not that interesting, consider the punchline]
posted by intermod at 7:16 PM on June 23, 2006

A certain large cable news network runs live car chases on 10 second delay so that they can switch away if something truly gruesome happens.
posted by intermod at 7:17 PM on June 23, 2006

I've seen that Mustang one before and it's freakin' awesome. Dude knows how to drive.
posted by loquacious at 7:18 PM on June 23, 2006

mathowie : "don't venture too far down the related videos list for police chases"

*ventures*

Good lord!
posted by graventy at 7:57 PM on June 23, 2006

graventy: No kidding. Jesus. Damn it, mathowie, never tell me to avoid something.
posted by brundlefly at 8:01 PM on June 23, 2006

What the hell does it have to do with Jackie Chan?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 11:26 PM on June 23, 2006

There's another version of the mustang chase out there with the original Dukes of Hazard themesong playing in the background. Far funnier than you would think.
posted by craniac at 12:21 AM on June 24, 2006

...the cops are driving what apears to be a BMW.

A fine tradition in Europe for over 40 years now.


posted by cenoxo at 7:53 PM on June 24, 2006

Didn't one of the dudes in Mad Max have a BMW motorbike?
posted by randomstriker at 12:26 AM on June 25, 2006