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Brazilian police ram airplane to stop smugglers
Believe it or not, this isn't a leaked scene from the set of Lethal Weapon 5; it's just another day at the office for a few heroic members of the Brazilian Federal Police.
In what is sure to be the highlight of these officers' careers, a video uploaded to YouTube yesterday shows police in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil chasing down a group of smugglers attempting to take off in a small aircraft.
After gaining enough speed to catch up with the aircraft, the driver decides that the best course of action is to ram straight through the plane's wing, disabling the craft and allowing officers to arrest five suspects after a month-long investigation.
We're still wondering if there's a Federal Police policy for this sort of thing, or if the officers were just... winging it.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Pip Nov 3rd 2011 8:27AM
Fukkin Awesome
J. Nov 3rd 2011 8:39AM
They will never, ever , ever stop the flow of drugs. The Cartels just get stronger and stronger. I guess we never learned anything from Prohibition; the reason the mafia became so powerful in this country. Legalize all of it. Tax the hell out of it. Use the money to create educational programs for children from an early age. Look what the educational programs by MADD have done for drunk driving. The majority of serious crime is drug related; robbery, burglaries, murder. This would all disappear if drugs were legal. All the bootleggers of old became legitimate business people; and the FBI were able to devote their resources to other pressing issues. These officers take such great risk to stop the unstoppable.
Freon Nov 3rd 2011 8:51AM
Take a lesson from this MEXICO, police actually fighting crime.
from Brazil. Nov 29th 2011 12:40AM
The driver says: "I'm gonna hit the wing! I'm gonna hit the wing! Don't shoot!"