The best part of any action movie is the car
chase - there’s just nothing like the thrill of a high-speed pursuit, watching shiny cars
weave in and out of traffic, narrowly avoiding some serious accidents. It’s the most exciting thing on earth, except
for car chases that happen in real life. Ready to get your heart racing? Let’s get it on! Car chases are as much a part of LA culture
as Hollywood is, but these guys combined those two things in a way nobody had before - instead
of putting a car chase into the movies, they put the movies into the car chase. They stole a convertible, put the top down
like any self-respecting Hollywood producer, and set off on a tour of LA’s landmarks,
while showing off in the process. Can you think of anything more iconically
Los Angeles than doing donuts in a stolen Mustang on Hollywood Boulevard? I can’t. These guys had a showman in them and wanted
to let it out. Eventually they just decided to stop, but
they took a moment as all great performers do, to take selfies with the fans and pose
on their sports car before calmly handing themselves over to the police. On the list of weirder crimes that police
have had to deal with, this one must be pretty high. Police were called out to investigate a domestic
disturbance, which is probably quite run-of-the-mill usually, but this time for some strange reason,
a guy dressed in nothing but his underwear decided to steal an ambulance. We’ll probably never know why, but he seemed
really serious about it. It led to a chase through the streets of Philadelphia
that lasted more than an hour - even the ambulance thief looked like he wanted to give up at
one point when he pulled into a parking lot and opened the door, but he decided against
it and took off again. He looks like he thinks he’s playing bumper
cars with police cars, and eventually drives down the street with sparks flying out around
him because he’s got no tyres left, and he still looks like he doesn’t want to stop. Finally, police managed to physically drag
him out and onto the road - still in just his underwear. It’s not a good look. Speaking of brazen criminals, you’ll never
believe this guy. He carjacked a truck with a woman and they
sped off into the distance at a crazy 110mph - that’s when the police chase took part. And it was a serious chase, with the truck
hitting the police cars several times in an attempt to escape. But it didn’t quite go the way the thieves
planned - instead, they went off the road and crashed into the desert in a dramatic
cloud of smoke. The man took off on foot, but bizarrely looks
like he’s turned around and is running toward the cops. It looks so odd you’d think he must have
made a mistake, or that maybe he can’t see them, but then you realise what he’s doing
- he’s stealing the police car right out from under their noses. Then he took off again, and the chase went
on for another 20 minutes before the police finally managed to corner him and get their
car back. There are two kinds of criminals - the ones
who sneak around under the cover of darkness hoping to never be seen, and the brazen ones
who are just out to taunt the police, even if they did nothing wrong. This guy was stopped for reckless driving,
and you’ll soon realise why. He sped away from the cops, reaching speeds
of 100mph, and then he decided to kick it up a notch and started doing stunts on his
bike - like standing up on the seat while it was moving. The cops probably would have loved it if he’d
fallen off, but he didn’t - he just made a couple of rude gestures at them and kept
going. Eventually he pulled into a gas station and
surrendered to police who charged him with driving on the wrong side of the road - I
guess there’s no law against doing stunts on a public road. If we’ve learnt anything from the longboard,
it’s that you should definitely only choose escape methods that are actually faster than
running - that should be obvious, but apparently not. This car thief had a slightly better idea
for a great escape, even if it was lucky. After this dangerous high speed chase through
Charlotte, North Carolina, and narrowly missing several other cars, he was brought to a sudden
stop when a train crossed his path. Instead of panicking though, he saw an opportunity. After all, the very thing that had got in
his way was just another form of high-speed transport. So instead of sitting in his stolen car and
waiting for the police, who were now gaining on him, he got out and jumped onto the train
instead. And it actually worked, he did escape the
police! Well for a moment anyway - they did catch
up with him eventually, but still, it was a good idea. People have gone to great lengths to invent
ingenious ways to escape police, so what brilliant escape method do you think you’re going
to see this guy use in his attempt to escape when his stolen car runs into a dead end? After all, it was a daring high-speed car
chase, he must have something amazing up his sleeve… or just a longboard. And he doesn’t even seem to be able to ride
it very well, and he knows it. He only rides it a few feet before deciding
it’s actually just better to run into oncoming traffic. He definitely would’ve been faster just
running, He doesn’t know he’s about to run into a hero in a red truck though, running
can’t save him from this unidentified superman though. Who is this masked vigilante? Lou Pizzaro from Operation Repo… No seriously, it actually is, I’m not joking. Bet you didn’t see that coming - nobody
did. I’ll bet there are many GTA fans watching
this video, so this one’s for you. This van thief led police on a wild chase
through the streets of South LA for a heart-stopping 40 minutes! He somehow managed to get out of every corner
he found himself in, and just kept going, occasionally driving round in circles as is
the GTA tradition. Red lights? He doesn’t care, he just keeps going at
the same speed. Six crashes with civilian drivers? That’s no problem for him, even though he
seems to be missing the front of the van. What about crashing head-on into a police
car? That should stop anyone, but not this guy,
all it did was make him back up a bit before he kept going. Not even driving over several spike strips
was enough to stop him, it just slowed him down slightly… well, almost. He eventually stopped because he had no tyres
left, but the thing that finally did him in was a slippery sidewalk. That’s embarrassing. When you think of police chases, they usually
happen in a stolen sports car - they’re fast and can be easily maneuvered, they’re
perfect. For some reason, this woman opted to steal
a motorhome instead. You don’t often see RVs in a car chase for
good reason, as she found out when she couldn’t turn sharply enough to avoid a tree and took
nearly the whole side off the vehicle. At that point, I would give up, the thing
isn’t worth stealing anymore, but she’s obviously not in her right mind - nobody sane
would put their dogs into a stolen RV, but that’s what she did. It’s not really surprising that the one
dog jumped out, anyone would want to escape an RV travelling at 60mph on city streets. She hit seven cars along the way, but luckily
nobody had any life-threatening injuries, not even the dogs. There’s no word yet on why she decided to
do that, but at least we now know the lucky number of crashes to stop a driver of a stolen
RV is 7. As we’ve clearly demonstrated, car chases
are wild, dangerous, nail-biting episodes. But all this adrenaline can tire you out,
so I’m going to help you calm down - with another car chase. Trust me. You might be surprised to hear that this footage
hasn’t been slowed down, this actually happened. This guy was caught with some stuff in his
car the police really shouldn’t have seen and sped off to escape… but then realised
how scared he was and slowed right down to 10mph. The police decided it was in their best interest
not to try some dangerous maneuver to get him to stop and tried to talk him down instead
- which they could do because he kept calling them on his cellphone to tell them how scared
he was. The chase lasted a mind-numbing 45 minutes,
and they covered a grand total of 3 miles. If that won’t help you drift off to sleep,
nothing will. If you’re a kid with no experience driving,
it’s probably not a very good idea to steal a car. This 15-year old is here to show you why:
he took the stupidity up a notch by not just stealing a car, but a bus, and creating a
full-blown police chase. Luckily no children were on the church bus,
but a bus being driven by someone who can’t really drive would have rightly frightened
other drivers. Anyone would be worried if they had to drive
near a bus that’s swerving all over the road like this one. It looks like he actually manages to hit every
single barrier he gets close to. Then, just to kick it up a gear, he speeds
across a road into oncoming traffic. Really, with the way he’s driving, it looks
like he’s lucky the bus didn’t just tip onto its side. He finally stopped when he drove head-on into
a police vehicle… yeah, that’ll do it.
