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A tense, two-hour standoff between armed San Diego Police and an empty car on the freeway ended with no injuries -- just questions.
The red-faced cops can be seen on Fox 5's helicopter footage pointing guns at a dark-colored sedan on Interstate 8 -- apparently for more than two hours before they moved in to take down their target.
But there was nobody in the vehicle.
Police officials said that the suspect they were looking for -- an unidentified man who was on parole -- was a suspect in a home invasion on Tuesday. He called his parole officer, saying that he'd broken down on the interstate and would be late for his mandatory meeting, the station reported.
Cops found the vehicle on the highway and surrounded it, thinking that their home invasion suspect was hiding inside. They even sent a canine to check the vehicle, but the pup found nothing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/cop-standoff-empty-car_n_1279126.html?ref=crime&ncid=webmail1
zbdent
(35,392 posts)to vent their embarrassment?
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Any illegals to put in the car.
Hatchling
(2,323 posts)Couldn't they use one of those scope thingys you always see on cop shows that show the heat signature of bodies? And they smashed the shit out of the car for nothing. I hope they're liable for that, it looked like a nice car at one time.
spanone
(135,891 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)Kidding. Those dogs are damned expensive.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)When the guys you send all have their bullet in their pocket, the result is kinda predictable.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)A simple monocular thermal rifle scope will run you $10,000. It's not likely that the SDPD stocks them outside of some limited numbers for SWAT gear.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...this incident didn't exactly scream out that they needed to deploy them there.
I'll join in the 'Barney' jokes, but I'll give SFPD a pass on this one. They didn't know what they had, and they had to treat it as they did.