I was coming home from dinner last night and I had just turned the corner at Whitney and Burmaster when a car zoomed past me at around 100 mph, missed me by a foot or so. I hadn’t finished thinking to myself, “What an asshole” when an NOPD cruiser sped past in chase.
Inspired, I followed the two as they sped through stop signs at Mardi Gras Blvd. and Newton and Whitney. I knew the road dead-ended at the levee on Patterson. However, I gather that the fella who was leading the chase did NOT know that. By the time I reached the levee, the car that almost hit me had skidded over the curb and into the levee with its tires shredded and the airbags deployed and the music blaring. The cop was pulled over and the door to the crashed car was open but no one was around save an older woman who came out of her house when she heard the racket.
“Did you see it?” I asked.
“No,” she responded.
“The cop was chasing him up the road. Where is the he?” I asked.
“I guess he’s chasing the guy,” she said.
Around that time I heard some yelling. I looked over behind me to see a little short cop pushing a tall guy in handcuffs over to the cop car. There were lots of “You are driving a stolen car..” and some motherfuckers and some other stuff. Then the cop wailed on the guy’s ribs a few times. Another cop came out from where they were coming from and a few seconds later some more cruisers showed up.
The lady went back inside and I took it all as my cue to leave as well.
Never a dull moment in Care Forgot.
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