Saturday, May 28, 2016

Escort

For some reason escorts have always fascinated me. No, not that type of escorts.

I’m talking about police motorcycle escorts, working their way through dense traffic and crowded intersections to get their payload to its destination as quickly and smoothly as possible. Here’s a video of the Dutch police, with footage from the helmet camera of esteemed officer Marechaussee, showing you how it’s done. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find the original video, but this was the least annotation polluted version I was able to dig up.

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Anonymous

2016-05-30 00:04:21 GMT

With great power comes great responsibility.
I looked like the officer really enjoyed hating the traffic so the payload could float freely through the traffic!

Anonymous

2016-05-30 00:05:38 GMT

"It looked like the officer really enjoyed halting the traffic so the payload could float freely through the traffic!" - midnight commenting FTW

Vegard Skjefstad

2016-05-31 20:08:02 GMT (post author)

Too bad you can’t edit comments, eh? Anyway, as long as he only uses the great Power of the Whistle and the Waving Hand for good, we’re all fine. But suddenly he can find himself in a meeting, demanding all kinds of reporting ASAP. You know how it is.

Anonymous

2016-06-02 01:49:20 GMT

Hehe, have you been to such a meeting lately?

Vegard Skjefstad

2016-06-02 04:20:09 GMT (post author)

No, I’ve not had that honor.

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