Segway Cop Busts Car Thieves: Are You Laughing Now?

by jordan | June 6, 2007 at 10:45 am | 1086 views | add comment

Shaking the wet-noodle image of the Segway, one of Long Beach's finest has busted some car thieves on his two-wheeled geekmobile.
Segway ttop speed: around 12mph.
Mercedes Benz top speed: considerably faster than 12mph.
It's not the tool, but how you use it.

Long Beach cops have finally vindicated the much-ridiculed Segway - by busting three teen car thieves who failed to escape the long arm of one motorised pogo-stick-borne law enforcement operative.

Last Thursday, 34-year-old officer Jose Miguez chose the two-wheeler to scoot around his beat. He explained: "I decided to take a Segway that day, and I observed a Mercedes-Benz coming out of the drive-through of Burger King, and it was being operated by a kid that to me looked underage, so I approached to get a better idea of what was going on.

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"I'm about 9 inches off the ground [on the Segway], and even from a bit further away I was able to notice that the back passenger was wearing latex gloves."

Miguez spotted that the vehicle's other passenger also sported latex gloves, and the driver had slipped on print-foiling construction gloves. Miguez continued: "It wasn't a summer day but it had to be 80 degrees that day and I asked them what the gloves were all about. And that's when they all ripped off their gloves and he floored it. I gave pursuit on the Segway."