People are already shocked about our earlier report covering how a Grappler Bumper ripped a car’s rear axle off. While that report was accompanied by a photo shared with the public by Michigan State Police, the agency that used the Grappler in the police chase has released the dashcam footage of the incident.
Ram TRX owner really thought no cop could catch his truck.
Livonia Police Department, which is in the Detroit metro area, posted the dashcam video on Facebook. It clears up most of the questions we had about the incident, including confirming that the suspect who was driving the car, which was reported as stolen, is in fact an idiot.
The footage starts off like every other Grappler Bumper video we’ve seen as the cop comes up from behind, angles the device toward the driver-side rear tire, and successfully wraps it up in the webbing.
Then the cop starts slowing down in a controlled manner, slowing the suspect who is literally on the line. As they both stop, on both sides a Michigan trooper pulls up, those telltale gumball roof lights sticking out.
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This is usually the part where the suspect puts their hands up, cries, and claims they were actually victimized by police.
Instead, this genius throws the Chevy in reverse, then back into drive, and tries getting free. It’s like he thinks he can break the line on the Grappler Bumper, but it doesn’t work.
When he throws the car in reverse again, the trooper nearest him backs up as well, not wanting to get hit, which honestly was a good call. The second attempt is done with more force than the first, but is just as unsuccessful.
Obviously, this guy who’s driving a reportedly stolen car, transporting two women who each have warrants, consistently makes dumb choices in life. That would explain why he throws the car into reverse a third time, then really guns it forward so hard the axle comes flying out from under the vehicle.
We’ve never seen anything like this before, but something tells us this isn’t the last time.
While the footage cuts off there, as we reported before, there was a small fire in the car, but we don’t get to see it. This makes us wonder if after the rear axle was torn off, the guy tried driving the front-wheel-drive car away, the chassis scraping on the pavement until the friction generated a fire. We don’t get to see that, so we’re just sticking with that theory.
Image via Livonia Police Department/Facebook
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