Lost Elderly Woman In Scooter Chair Gets Police Escort Home -- At 6 MPH

[kpete]

What it looked like at the time was this older lady on a Rascal cruising down the road. The cop car with the lights flashing going behind her is what caught my attention," Andrea Ruth, who filmed the June 9 incident, told KOMO, the Seattle ABC station. "You can't make that stuff up."




It turns out, however, that it wasn't a chase so much as an escort.

Police had received phone calls about an elderly woman in a motorized scooter traveling down busy State Route 546, the station reported. Trooper Dave Hintz with the Washington State Patrol went to make sure she was OK.

"I wasn't trying to stop her. I wasn't trying to detain her. I was just trying to get her back to her home," Hintz told KOMO. "I just treated her the way I would've wanted somebody to treat my mom."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/police-scooter-escort_n_7582678.html?cps=gravity_2082_8916537306583039016

[Tipperary]

1. Recced.

A good news post!

[chillfactor]

2. nice to see there are still a few decent cops left... n/t

[cwydro]

3. ...

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. That is so cool............

[valerief]

5. "I wasn't trying to stop her or detain her. She's white. I didn't even shoot." nt

[Skittles]

6. zzzzzzzzzzzz

time for Ignore

[awoke_in_2003]

7. If all cops thought this way

the world would be much better. Empathy- something severely lacking in our entire culture.