I arrested an 80+ year old guy for Failure to stop. I flipped to stop the car, he keeps going and I call in a pursuit. I chase him for several miles, he stops at a house and starts trucking for the door. I realize at that point he's old, but I assume he's plastered or something, so I try to talk to him but he just tells me to piss off. I got in front of him, and he tried to push past me. At that point I tell him he's under arrest, but he keeps going. I grab his arm, and he tries to pull away and lets out this weird scream and I let go. Same thing about 4 times. Finally, his daughter comes out and want to know what the h*ll is going on, so I explain to her and she's yelling "Stop it, dad." I finally got him cuffed, and he claims he thought my cruiser was "a fire truck" so he just kept going. :roll:
The Judge was pretty pissed and claimed it was "obvious he couldn't hear or see the cruiser" despite his admission. His defense was that he needs a hearing aid to hear and a special ointment to see and he had used neither, so he was deaf and blind behind the wheel. The Judge bought it.
I love Massachusetts.
2 of the guys who worked with me also had a 70+ year old who after being stopped for speeding refused to give his License and registration and locked on to the steering wheel so they had to pepper spray him and use their batons to arrest him. When he was back at the station, the Lt asked him "why?" and his response was "I just wanted to get arrested to know what it feels like".
Old people can be weird sometimes.
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