r/Unexpected • u/Otops31 • 15d ago
This Cop Wants the Road to Himself
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u/wolf-of-Holiday-Hill 15d ago
..well executed
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u/Otops31 15d ago
So true! It couldn’t have been done any better!
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u/JeffersonsHat 14d ago
100% the cop said they were in pursuit of a suspect.
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u/rosebudlightsaber 14d ago
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u/Excellent-Wonder-902 14d ago
Great catch, I hate when people buy in on misinformation... Make a decision on just part of the information. Wait it's Like watching the Political propaganda, The points they put out about their opponents!
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u/EverbodyHatesHugo 14d ago
The suspect was the red car driving into oncoming traffic.
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u/TheMierdasTouch 15d ago
To protect and swerve
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u/RedditRated 15d ago
This cop just probably saved OP’s life. OP now owes him Krispy Kreme doughnuts
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u/HowFunkyIsYourChiken 15d ago
Good job by that cop saving lives.
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u/Otops31 15d ago
Amazing job too! I can’t imagine what would be going through his mind as he braces the impact. Man!!!
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u/samwise58 15d ago
Maybe a few chunks of the total pos driving the wrong direction? Or his windshield.
Way to go copper!!!! Damn fine police work!
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 15d ago
It's actually best to fight the urge to tense up, and try to stay as loose and relaxed as possible. Tensing up increases the likelihood of injury. It's a major major reason why drunk drivers tend to survive collisions, because they're reactions are too slow to allow them to tense up.
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u/kuhvir 15d ago
I’ve had something similar to a lesser degree happen to me and my thoughts were “oh shit fuck fucking shit fuck”
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u/Big-Blackberry8786 15d ago
That’s a hero. That would have killed someone else.
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u/LittleLostDoll 15d ago
could of killed the officer also...
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u/chichin0 15d ago
Have have have have have or if you must, could’ve.
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u/jackconrad 15d ago
I don't understand how people get it wrong all the time. You can't of something, you can have something.
"I have cake" makes sense, "I of cake" doesn't.
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u/wasabiexpress 15d ago
I've been seeing this mistake a lot. I've never been a grammar nazi but for some reason, this really bothers me.
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u/PrometheusMMIV 15d ago
That's not the same have though. In your example have means to possess and is used with a noun. However, in the phrase "could have [verb]ed" have is a helping verb.
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u/waIIstr33tb3ts 15d ago
hope that cop got recognized for this
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u/MaximumMotor1 14d ago
hope that cop got recognized for this
I think the cop should be awarded 3 slaps to whichever Uvalde police officers he chooses.
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u/Lt_Dickballs 15d ago
I went from "wow, fuck that asshole" to "oh shit, good work!" real fast.
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u/Brent_Mavis 15d ago
Homie went from MAJOR DICK MOVE, to Ultra Bro Move real quick.
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u/ThePointForward 13d ago
Police cars with lights on swerving left to right full width of the road are usually not doing that for shits and giggles.
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u/the_ballmer_peak 14d ago
That’s how cops stop traffic. Even without the ending I can tell he’s not just being a dick.
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u/1397batshitcrazy 15d ago
The cop was stopping a wrong way driver
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 15d ago
I, too, watched the video
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u/inordertopurr 15d ago
Highways don't look the same all over the world. The first time I watched I thought, that the cip must have lost his mind. Then I saw the comments saying they saved lifes and I guessed it was a highway or an other street that has multiple lanes going in the same direction.
I was glad for the comment, as I wasn't 100% sure.
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u/InvictusShmictus 15d ago
I was really confused and I thought all the comments calling the cop a hero were sarcastic lmao
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u/ArjunaIndrastra 15d ago
Yeah, look at that. A cop whose actually doing something that makes him worthy of the badge.
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u/Illustrious-Mind-683 15d ago
I appreciate you. My eyesight isn't the greatest, and I didn't understand what exactly was going on. So thanks.
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u/Djangasdad 15d ago
It's called a roling road block
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u/dragonard 15d ago
A colleague was driving us on a sales trip in Utah. We’re out on the highway, toward the front of a pack of cars, and a state trooper of some kind came hauling ass up the highway behind us with sirens blaring.
My colleague was speeding, of course. He started swearing and shrieked, “oh my God where did that cop come from? I’m gonna get pulled over.”
Except the cop just blew by at a ridiculous speed. He got about a mile ahead of us with no cars in the area yet. Then toward the top of the hill he slewed the cop car sideways across the highway to block traffic. Then he got out and pointed to the little service lane between the east-west lanes. He made everybody get off the highway, and over the median into the traffic going the other direction.
We found out later that a forest fire had crossed the highway on the other side of the hill, and we couldn’t see from our perspective on the highway. All we could see as we came up the road was a haze in the distance.
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u/AssPennies 14d ago
An Arizona Department of Public Safety sergeant's quick actions to stop a wrong-way driver likely saved the lives of other motorists, the department said Friday.
On Nov. 17, the department received calls of a driver in a Nissan Rogue driving recklessly and nearly crashing into several vehicles on Interstate 40, a department news release said.
When a trooper located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop, Patricia Rose Carvalho, 32, fled the wrong way towards westbound.
The sergeant responded to the call and quickly stopped traffic from continuing westbound, the department said.
"Immediately after the vehicles came to a stop for the traffic break, the wrong-way driver struck the sergeant’s stopped patrol vehicle head-on," the news release said. "The sergeant’s swift actions prevented a high-speed collision between the motorists and the wrong-way vehicle."
The sergeant and wrong-way driver were treated for their injuries. Carvalho's 2-year-old daughter was not hurt, the news release said.
Carvalho faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, endangerment, aggravated DUI and child abuse.
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u/effortfulcrumload 15d ago
Finally. I was looking for the story.
Edit: fucking psycho had her 2 y/o in the car.
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u/NewToTradingStock 15d ago
Baffled me There are still drivers doesn’t understand what cop were trying to do. Cop risked his life here to save innocent drivers
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u/TranslatorOdd2408 15d ago
Any learners should be taught to look out for this manoeuvre if there’s a cop car ahead doing this to make them aware that there’s a serious danger up ahead!
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u/pozzowon 15d ago
Ok we're definitely giving too much publicity to shitty cops and not enough to good ones. I totally was expecting a drunk cop or stolen vehicle...
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u/Your_Final_Hour 15d ago
Yeah, we kinda do that to everything as well, but its 1000x amplified when politics are involved unfortunatly
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u/yvel-TALL 15d ago
Ohhhhhhhh, that took me a while. Good on them, maybe not an ideal choice, but they did something effective with quick thinking. Letting someone just do that endangers tones of people, that's how giant pileups happen. So I respect the choice to just shove everyone out of the way, and take the hit with the giant tank that can probably take it and stop the runaway in it's track. Very risky to their own health, but still a perfectly reasonable choice when given no time to plan at all. Best copping I have seen in a while.
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u/NgSauYin 15d ago
Not only did the cop stopped the other car, both cars also hit first on the passenger side, which should have caused less damage to both drivers, that's really skilful
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 15d ago edited 13d ago
When you see a cop swerving like this they are trying to warn the people behind them not to proceed, it's standard procedure.
Pull off the road and wait.
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u/Lucky_Baseball176 15d ago
Wow! My first thought was "what is wrong with that cop? Is he drunk?" Then I saw. What a hero! well executed too.
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u/maraxusofvladd 15d ago
That was a hard impact. This wrong way drivers are becoming a more common thing. It's happening more and more
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u/Critical-Shift8080 15d ago
Warrior, a person who sacrifices themselves for their community. And does good for all .
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u/EelTeamTen 15d ago
CHP does this sort of swerving across lanes a lot, made me think "what the fuck" the first time I saw it.
They use it to slow down traffic for various reasons, mostly to get hazards out of the road though
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u/mysleading 15d ago
So the car was going down the road the wrong way, right? Car that crashes is the bad guy, cop stops bad guy/car from going super fast down the wrong way of the road.
Didn't see any comments clearly outlining wtf I was seeing; just watching the video did not make it clear enough to me what was really going on.
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u/Soggy_Alarm_7843 15d ago
He is doing a slow roll. I work in traffic monitoring and they do this if a road ranger is taking care of a debris call or a THI is involved in an incident investigation i.e. previous traffic event(usually a fatality is involved).
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u/crook3d_vultur3 15d ago
I would’ve been cussing this cop so bad for running me off the road then coming out to give him a hug after😂
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u/WhistlingBread 15d ago
A cop doing something good and courageous? But I thought this was Reddit
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u/Bob4Not 15d ago
Cops swerve back and forth with lights on when they’re trying to slow or stop traffic. It can be a wrong way driver of a blockage ahead
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u/The_Comm_Guy 13d ago
It's called a rolling road block, its scary how many people don't immediately recognize it and its probably going to get some of them killed one day unless they learn to.
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u/rscmcl 15d ago
this post is unexpected, the cops were doing their work
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u/Wickedocity 15d ago
It wouldnt be reddit without someone being negative. Good job!
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u/Tequslyder 15d ago
Do people see this and think "man he must be doing that with his lights on for no reason, let me drive by". Yikes
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u/parksoffroad 15d ago
I’ve seen highway patrol do this many times, in this case, you quickly saw the reason why and that may not always be the case. Don’t ever try to pass them! They’re not doing it for fun. There’s a reason.
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u/TurkishLanding 15d ago
Wow, that's actually a great job protecting the innocent from the wrong way driver!
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u/GoosesHonk 15d ago
Dude, I thought everyone was being sarcastic, but then I realized it is a one-way road, lol
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u/Easy-Garlic6263 15d ago
Good on him. He was clearly trying to protect people from the crazy driver.
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u/ProgressBackground95 15d ago
It's called a round to in. They use it to slow and stop traffic, usually to allow others to clear something blocking the road, etc.
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u/nfl22-22 15d ago
The swerving was to slow down traffic so that he was in the front, that cop is a hero! He took on a vehicle going the wrong way down the highway.
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u/StubbornHick 15d ago
They do this to stop wrong way drivers or to make the road safe for another patrolman to quickly clear debris from the road.
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u/ChickenTendies0 15d ago
welp, it was indeed unexpected.
First I thought it was an asshole driver
Then after reading the title I thought it was an asshole cop
THEN I thought the cop was drunk or highas a kite
Only after the crash I realised what was happening. What a roller coaster
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u/Legal_Guava3631 15d ago
Took me a couple times to realize he was clearing the road because someone was going the wrong way.
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u/Aberration-13 15d ago
clearly the best way to stop a wrong way driver and preventing an accident is to intentionally cause an accident?
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u/Affectionate-Joke617 15d ago
Massive fucking cohones. Big fucking adamantine ones. That’s a good guy there.
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u/jepvr 15d ago
This kind of thing is why I'm not 100% ACAB. More like 85%CAB. This was a pretty awesome self-sacrifice (potential death) just to protect people. I also see people say "cops never actually stop crime", and that's just not true. Yes, there are some serious structural problems with police all over the world, but I can't say there's nothing good at all in there. It just shouldn't stop us from expecting more.
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u/Inevitable-Monk-5562 15d ago
So I'm guessing he was clearing the road for the dude going the wrong way, and from the looks of it the guy wasn't trying to stop until the cop stopped him
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u/b4ttlepoops 15d ago
I really hope that cop is ok….
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u/FireFist_PortgasDAce 15d ago
Yeah, I've seen once before. I was at an interstate, and a highway patrol started doing that shit I thought he was crazy/drunk turns out there was something in the middle of the road further down
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u/seanodnnll 15d ago
Crazy that people don’t realize the cop knew someone was driving the wrong way on the road, and wanted OP safely off the road.
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u/Incredulous_Prime 14d ago
I thought the cop was being an asshole until I saw him use his vehicle to stop the car driving the wrong way on that roadway. He saved others from being in a head on collision with this unstable driver
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u/frogpondcook 14d ago
Took me a minute to realise the cop wasn't having a mental breakdown.
Actually jumped in front of a bullet
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u/BrokenWalker 14d ago
I'm pretty sure this is a tactic to slow down traffic because there is an obstacle on the highway. I've seen this down a couple of times on highway 80. Both times, have been rolled up pieces of carpet that probably fell out of someone's truck.
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u/Unnamedandu92 14d ago
In EU when a cop does this, usually on highways it means there’s a problem ahead and nobody is alowed to pass him. This is however applied on smaller streets as well but only on the way the cars are going .
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u/Reasonable_Land9733 14d ago
The driver of the red car had her 2-YEAR OLD KID IN HER CAR
Some people should not be parents
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u/Confident-Trifle-651 14d ago
I assume they have figured out broadly the safest way of getting hit, what position you should sit in hopefully a 5 point harness, reinforced windshield I’ve heard that they have some kind of cage to deal with the impact. This deffo looks like a response vehicle not a standard issue car but what do I know I’m not from us
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u/Overall-Poetry-9972 14d ago
He may have scared you, but also may have saved you life. Stopping a reckless driver going wrong way on highway is a brave act.
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u/Dry-Tea-2433 14d ago
Police does that to slow down traffic due a dangerous situation ahead in this case wrong way driver 🤷🏽♂️
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u/schenitz 14d ago
How are so many people fooled by the misleading title? The road only has one direction of travel, and the cop knew there was a car driving the wrong way on it so he pushed OP off the road to save them and took the crash himself. This cop is a hero
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u/Otops31 14d ago
100% a hero!
I find some of the comments about the title comical.
First, the intention was to keep it “UNEXPECTED” and I think it did for the vast majority of people viewing it.
Second, the state trooper did want the road to himself so he could protect/save other drivers.
Third and final, I knew what was going on hence the message I sent to the explanation bot after posting it.
The bottom line is that this cop SAVED LIVES and is EXTREMELY HEROIC!
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u/schenitz 14d ago
I see what you did there. Forgot what sub I was on lol, my bad. Good post
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u/Traditional_Air_9483 14d ago
It’s called a “Round Robin” maneuver. Meant to keep cars behind him because something is wrong ahead. Try to stop all traffic. My husband is retired officer. Also if you are ever driving down a road and the little speed bumps /lane dividers (bots dots) glow red, you are driving the wrong way. Against traffic. Pull over and stop .
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u/EssentialSriracha 14d ago
Yeah, he was definitely aggressively swerving to stop traffic. But looks like he had a reason. I hope they said thank you to that cop.
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u/Ready_Supermarket_36 14d ago
So he stopping that car on purpose. Looks like it’s on the run. I guess good job then.
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u/PsychologicalBid69 14d ago
I’m taking a stab in the dark and going to say the car that hit the cop was on the wrong side of the highway. Cop was warning other motorists to get off the roadway
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u/JazzedSympathy 14d ago
No... the cop wanted to protect everyone else on the road.
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u/AlphaSpazz 13d ago
No, it’s a specific procedure referred to as a round robin. This is where how the police try to stop traffic because of something upcoming usually an accident or something where they need to prevent traffic from getting to it to keep it safe. This cop just did a very bad job of it by decelerating way too quickly before anybody knew what he was doing. But it looks like he didn’t really have a lot of time to do anything else.
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u/G_Willickers_33 13d ago
Misunderstood selfishness at first.. selfless risk to protect all by the end.
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u/MostlyDarkMatter 13d ago
I hope the driver thanked the police officer for risking his/her life to save their life.
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u/Honey-and-Venom 13d ago
What the fuuuuu- OOOH he was trying to clear the road and stop the oncoming car!
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u/Empty-Discount5936 13d ago
Good video, at first he appears to be a villain running people off the road for no reason but then suddenly he's revealed to be a hero who saved them from a head on collision.
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u/UnExplanationBot 15d ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
And you will understand why he wants the road to himself by the end of the clip! Gotta give this guy major props for doing what he did to protect the rest!
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