I was at a stop light and I saw a biker (motorcycle not bicycle) coming towards me at a reasonable pace (on the other side of the road, of course). On his tail was a Warwick police cruiser with his lights flashing and siren "woo-woo"-ing.
The biker was forced to stop because there were cars in front of him waiting for the light to turn green. From where I was sitting, it looked like the biker was talking with the police officer in the cruiser. When the light did, in fact, change to green, the cruiser attempted to corral the biker into a nearby parking lot by taking a right turn.
The biker...let's call him Butch...wasn't having that. He sped up and swerved around the cruiser and started, what I'm sure was, a police chase through Southern Rhode Island that could be featured on COPS.
Here's where I'm confused. Did Butch honestly think that he could get away with evading the police? Even if the cop didn't catch him tonight, there's a super slim chance that they can't find the guy in the days to come. I mean, I imagine that they have his license plate number and a description of the vehicle/guy. The cruiser probably had a video camera mounted to his dashboard for scenarios just like this!
For the love of God, Rhode Island is such a small state you are bound to run into the last person you want to see at some point!
Also, I can't imagine that the initial offense was SO bad that adding "Resisting an Officer" wasn't a big deal.
Sidenote: I do realize that this story would be 20 times better if Butch was a cyclist in a Spandex ensemble.
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