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Blackout, or turns off all the lights on your car, can be an effective way to lose the police during a hunt. However, there are some factors that affect the effectiveness of this strategy. The primary one is the color of your vehicle. That is why you see this crisp white BMW trying to blackout to lose local law enforcement in Arkansas, then a state trooper, is funny.
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Seriously, it’s like watching a toddler hide from everyone by throwing a blanket over his head. He might laugh and think that all the adults can’t see him, but it’s cute because he’s just a little kid. With this suspect in white Bimmer not only is it laughably stupid, this guy is risking other people’s lives with this stupidity.
He also doesn’t seem to understand that even with a black or other dark vehicle, blackout is not effective if you are in an area with light. There’s enough lighting where he’s running that when you combine the color of the car with it, the strategy is even more ridiculous.
Also, blackout doesn’t really work if you brake or use your blinkers. After all, it lights up the back of your ride, which defeats the whole purpose of turning it all off. And this suspect does.
With the Bimmer driver breaking these basic rules to run from the police, it’s really no surprise that the trooper catches up with ease. It also doesn’t take long for the soldier to execute an effective PIT maneuver to end the pursuit.
Most people lack the skills to get away from an Arkansas trooper, especially guys on the internet who like to brag about how they could. We sometimes wonder if these suspects didn’t shoot their mouths online, and decide to show all their skills, only to be beaten down like this suspect.
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