Friday, March 18, 2011

Photo-finish Friday: Chase


One morning this week, we were at a cactus farm on the outskirts of town, where we had this view of the mountain ridge across the valley and what looked like a weather front in the sky. The winds of March have been blowing here for days. The photo captures that unsettled desert mood.

Then a few moments after I took this pic, there was the distant sound of sirens growing steadily closer. And along the two-lane strip of paved road running behind me there came a speeding pickup truck with a mile-long string of police, sheriff, and CHP units in hot pursuit. Like a scene from Thelma and Louise.

The online news later in the day reported that the chase went on for over an hour at speeds up to 100mph, passing through a half dozen local towns scattered along the Coachella Valley. Pictures from the scene showed a driver and passenger arrested. We amused ourselves on the way home imagining the excited conversations among law officers over lunch that day.

Photo-finish Friday is the bright idea of Leah Utas over at The Goat's Lunch Pail.  

8 comments:

  1. Excellent. It does loom, doesn't it?

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  2. Awesome. I need to get back to that part of the country.

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  3. Sharp photo, Ron. You could sell that on sites like iStockphoto.

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  4. Neat sky! The thrill of a chase often ends in shackles!

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  5. Looks like that cloud is definitely a harbinger.

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  6. Great photo, Ron. And a great story to go with it. I'm sure the sequence of events you decribed have some mileage in them. Where's my notepad?

    Have a great weekend!

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  7. Nice photo. I wonder if the weather had anything to do with the chase, you know, continual wind drives you nuts.

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