I think I found it through the news source up there.

I feel like this could have gone much worse for everyone involved.  Safer thing to do may have just been to follow the thief while on the phone with the police.

Speak for yourself. Please do.

Dodge/Chrysler was always the “lower price, lower quality” alternative to Ford/Chevy.

“I believe that the coming battery replacement issues are going to be what kills these things off, once and for all.”

John McElroy has been an automotive journalist in Detroit for a LONG time, and is as plugged into the big-3 as anyone in the industry. He’s not just some podcaster throwing out rumors for clicks.

If you like coasters and haven’t been to Cedar Point, do yourself a favor and go. 

His cousin was also in Automotive, selling half a million brake pads to Ray Zalinsky to keep Callahan Auto afloat. Rolls Royce of brake pads.

Exactly. Fuck that guy. Protect the public, not the lawbreaker. He didn’t fucking shoot him. What does the asshast expect.?!

Well, given that the idiot was unable to stop in time for a stopped cruiser, despite a valliant last ditch throw-the-anchor effort of the ATV rider, it is reasonable to assume that he also would not have been able to successfully stop or evade pedestrians.

Solid false equivalency. 10/10.

Especially after looking at the video in the linked article, which shows all the pedestrians/bicyclists the cop passed just prior to this, I’m happy to declare a writ of “Fuck This Guy.”  He was about to kill some people, including kids, and this not only prevented that but visited the suffering upon the person who…

I’m not upset at all about the serious injuries.  FAFO and all that.

Nah, bro. There are times when the cops should be skewered for their actions.

Just a few days ago, up in Albany, some moron driving an ATV on a pedestrian path hit a student, and now she’s in the hospital in a coma with a TBI. Alexa Kropf, University at Albany student from Floral Park, in medically induced coma after hit-and-run - Newsday

Cop did the right thing - I honestly don’t see anything wrong with what he did. There are pedestrians on the walkway who could have been seriously hurt or killed by the ATV. The ATV was going so fast that it didn’t even have enough time to stop for the cop car. If he was going around a blind corner and came up fast on…

It’s unfortunate the rider got seriously injured, but I really fail to see what the cop should have done differently except perhaps block the path a little sooner. On the flip side the rider could have:

Agreed. Bad take on Jalopnik’s part to suggest that the ATV driver running through a bunch of cyclists and pedestrians was the more desirable outcome than hitting a stopped police car. This isn’t exactly the trolley problem, because one of the outcomes is measurably worse than the other.

Yeah, how could an All Terrain Vehicle circumvent obstacles placed on a path?

If you were going too fast to avoid a stopped car, you were going too fast to avoid a pedestrian. I’m good with this one.