Exclusive Video Of Darkness

CBS 3’s front page right now fronts the station’s main story: Exclusive video of a police chase from Northeast Philly into Abington and back again!

Hot damn! I, like all Americans, love nothing more on TV than police chases. It combines all the fun of NASCAR (possibly getting to watch someone crash and die) with all the fun of COPS (possibly getting to watch someone escape the police).

Well, someone even crashed in this car chase (but didn’t die)! Not that we got to see it, since CBS 3’s video is mainly pitch black, although we do see a pair of headlights disappear from the screen as it crashes. Where are the spotlights from the news vans? I know this isn’t LA, but come on! Points for this, though: Getting the sparks flying off the guardrail (I guess) as it drives while sliding against it. Other than that, well, uh…

Update: It must be just online. On TV it was a lot clearer, and you could see the sparks were from the car’s flat tire, not a guardrail. The crash still wasn’t that good, though. Alas.

Exclusive: Police Chase-Crash Caught On Tape [CBS 3]