The cops were chasing a guy on a dirt bike. He took off down the sand wash near me. 2 cop cars got stuck in the sand trying to follow him
The 3rd cop decided to follow a trail next to the wash on the side as to stay out of the sand. He went down a pretty gnarly hill in his patrol car. He then took off through the bushes fast!
He hit a pretty large wash out! He hit it and dirt flew over the hood. The car ended up with the rear wheels in the air hanging over the ditch.
By this time the criminal was long gone. A tow truck came to pull the 2 out of the sand and then went after the guy in the ditch.
This I had to see! He drove this 2wd tow truck down that trail, down that gnarly hill and pulled the cop car out of the ditch!
But the car wouldn't run and he tried several times to pull it up the hill with a dead engine.
This just wasn't gonna happen as the trail had lots of loose baseball sized rocks.
He unhooked the cable and was able to get the tow truck up the hill but the cable was too short to reach the car.
So I moseyed on over to the cop. I asked him what the scoop was and he said that it quit when he hit the ditch.
Real nice guy too.
Then I got a brainstorm! I remembered that Fords have a switch in the trunk that turns off the fuel pump in case of an accident.
So he opened the trunk and I pushed the switch....And it clicked!
Car started! He hit that ditch hard enough to trip that switch!
He drove the car to the bottom of the hill. We looked at the hill and I told him where I would try to go up it. It had a rut about 2/3rds up and if he hit that wrong he would lift a tire and be stuck.
So he listened to me about crossing the rut at just the right angle as to not lift a tire and it worked!
I then followed him up in my Jeep and told him to remember me and not to write me up unless I'm really doing something stupid
He laughed and we shook hands.
At the top I didn't see anything obviously wrong with the front end of the car. Both front wheels looked to be pointing the same direction and no fluids were leaking.
I guess 30+ years of living in the desert, being stuck myself and learning how to read the terrain taught me something.
The 3rd cop decided to follow a trail next to the wash on the side as to stay out of the sand. He went down a pretty gnarly hill in his patrol car. He then took off through the bushes fast!
He hit a pretty large wash out! He hit it and dirt flew over the hood. The car ended up with the rear wheels in the air hanging over the ditch.
By this time the criminal was long gone. A tow truck came to pull the 2 out of the sand and then went after the guy in the ditch.
This I had to see! He drove this 2wd tow truck down that trail, down that gnarly hill and pulled the cop car out of the ditch!
But the car wouldn't run and he tried several times to pull it up the hill with a dead engine.
This just wasn't gonna happen as the trail had lots of loose baseball sized rocks.
He unhooked the cable and was able to get the tow truck up the hill but the cable was too short to reach the car.
So I moseyed on over to the cop. I asked him what the scoop was and he said that it quit when he hit the ditch.
Real nice guy too.
Then I got a brainstorm! I remembered that Fords have a switch in the trunk that turns off the fuel pump in case of an accident.
So he opened the trunk and I pushed the switch....And it clicked!
Car started! He hit that ditch hard enough to trip that switch!
He drove the car to the bottom of the hill. We looked at the hill and I told him where I would try to go up it. It had a rut about 2/3rds up and if he hit that wrong he would lift a tire and be stuck.
So he listened to me about crossing the rut at just the right angle as to not lift a tire and it worked!
I then followed him up in my Jeep and told him to remember me and not to write me up unless I'm really doing something stupid
At the top I didn't see anything obviously wrong with the front end of the car. Both front wheels looked to be pointing the same direction and no fluids were leaking.
I guess 30+ years of living in the desert, being stuck myself and learning how to read the terrain taught me something.
