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Message: <blockquote data-quote="undeg01" data-source="post: 3661363" data-attributes="member: 26476">When I was in training, I conducted a stop of a Z71 pickup that left a parking lot onto a street without stopping, and things just didn’t seem “right.”  As I approached the vehicle, I caught the attention of my FTO and pointed at the tail lights, noting the brake lights were on.  I approached the driver while my FTO approached from the passenger side.  I said, ”Sir, I need you to put your vehicle in park and turn off the engine.”  The driver had both hand clearly in view on the wheel.  He never looked at me, just simply said, “Nope,” then floored it. As the truck started to pull away from us, my FTO connected his flashlight to the passenger tail light with a strong backhanded strike.  As the pursuit began, my FTO explained that if he gets away from us, maybe someone else will stop him because of the broken tail light.Everything was flooded that night and the guy hit a low lying flooded area at 80 mph and I kid you not, the water was up to his windows.  I guess he was going so fast the momentum carried him across.  We lost him at that point but I deducted that it was possible he was staying at a hotel near where the traffic stop was initiated. Sure enough, picked him up there at 7:20am, just as my shift was ending.</blockquote>