Football Armageddon Weekend III Twitch vs Edition

[smfrazier]

If this was a series on TV, I'd so record every episode.

Have you ever seen "Lizard Lick Towing" on True Tv? They have similar stories.

[sms001]

One useful life skill everyone should learn ...is what Ford Crown Vic headlights look like at a distance in the dark, it’s a skill that’s never let me down.

QFT. Only in my day/my town it was a Chevy Nova. Which I also happened to be a driver of. Just for hoots, my friends and I would occasionally drive quickly down the road of the local "party park" just to see our peers scatter like roaches on id'ing the headlights. 'course, after many years in Chicago, I'm all too familiar with the Crown Vic's headlight, silhouette, tail lamps....

[Argabarga]

Sure Saskatchewan isn't some terrifying creature that will get the kids if they don't go to bed straight away?

You're thinking of the vicious Saskatoon!

[dalesys]

You're thinking of the vicious Saskatoon!

Source of horrifying earworms such as...
... they paved paradise ...
... from both sides now ...
... we are stardust ...

[Shyla]

None of the cops in my part of PA use Crown Vics anymore. They all use different makes. I can't recognize them all.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

If this was a series on TV, I'd so record every episode.

I'd watch it on Amazon.

And that image of Twitch laying out the dude with the birds circling still has me choking with laughter!!!

I might need CPR after reading any more Tales of Twitch.

[BlaqueKatt]

I seriously have a crush on twitch. knowing he spends 4 months living in the woods! Swoon!

you can tell twitch he has a non-stalkerish fangirl.

emphasis on not stalkerish, as I will be living about 20 minutes from Philly in about a month or so. Nothing to do with twitch.

[Argabarga]

Source of horrifying earworms such as...
... they paved paradise ...

Yeah, but they put up a parking lot

I LIKES parking lots!

[Jester]

Having seen a police cruiser being hooked up by a tow truck due to being parked in a tow zone

I was DJing a wedding once back in Phoenix, and the hall was semi-outside and had a clear view of the main road. At one point, a flatbed tow truck rolled by with a cop cruiser on the back. Even though I'm pretty sure it was a breakdown tow, not a bad parking tow, it was still funny. And not just to me....several people broke out in applause and laughter.

The cop even radioed into dispatch and was told that they are not above the law - no parking means no parking, end of story

I assume the exception to this is if the cop car is there in an emergency or chase situation, with their lights on, etc. I believe in such situations, cruises can park wherever, and most smart tow drivers would just keep rolling.

I'm all too familiar with the Crown Vic's headlight, silhouette, tail lamps....

In AZ, the AHP occasionally use Ford Mustangs. Lots of open highways and high speed limits, makes sense. Anyway, one day I was driving back form Tucson to Phoenix, zipping along up I-10, when I saw headlights coming up from behind fast. My first thought was to give them a race, but something told me to let it go. Good thing, too...it was one of the rare Cop Stangs. And it went flying by me at Mach 2.

... they paved paradise ...

And put up a parking lot.

There used to be these very lines spray painted as graffiti on a wall here in Key West. Where? On the side of one of the only two parking garages in town, and the only one in the downtown area. Kind of fitting. Don't know when they finally cleaned it up, but it's gone now.

[Mr Hero]

If this was a series on TV, I'd so record every episode.

I want it on Netflix.

I'd watch it on Amazon.

And I'd watch the episodes being streamed on Twitch.tv

[Argabarga]

I myself have towed 3 different CV cruisers in my career, all for the same thing, overheating. Apparently, those Crown Vic motors run hot and the water pumps frequently crap out.... it's always fun to take those calls for the sheer WTF? reaction from those you pass.

[MoonCat]

You know, when I read your description of Twitch I swear I heard the Deliverance banjos....but those are great stories!

[Shalom]

And put up a parking lot.

I remember the video for that song from when I was a kid.

[Deserted]

In AZ, the AHP occasionally use Ford Mustangs. Lots of open highways and high speed limits, makes sense. Anyway, one day I was driving back form Tucson to Phoenix, zipping along up I-10, when I saw headlights coming up from behind fast. My first thought was to give them a race, but something told me to let it go. Good thing, too...it was one of the rare Cop Stangs. And it went flying by me at Mach 2.

Happens to me quite a bit with the Buckeye police on the I-10 (when I'm out that far). It's like a bad cartoon: look in the rearview mirror, see the glint of sunlight off the roof of the cruiser, then WHOOSH! [wind blows me off the road] Buh-bye!

[Jester]

The amusing thing about my story is that I was driving a little Dodge Shadow Turbo at the time. It matched up well against Escort GTs and the like, but against a full-on V-8 Mustang? Even if it had not been a cop in a cop car with a cop-tuned engine? Would have been like a greyhound vs a Jack Russell terrier. No contest!