Cop Circles

These crop circles were created on the evening of June 22, 2007 in a cornfield near the village of Dussen, in the south of the Netherlands. Four police cars “chased” a man high on cocaine through a corn field before he ran into a ditch.

All four police cars were reported to be destroyed. Yet this YouTube clip of a Dutch news video shows that the field was perhaps 2′ tall and the vehicles were driving at low speeds. Apparently none of the police vehicles were as … robust as American police cars.

In fact, that was perhaps the silliest police chase I’ve seen. No sirens, no adrenaline, no real commentary, just birds chirping in the shrubbery while some nut lays waste to a field. He didn’t even do donuts.

More details come from an AP reporter, commenting in a USAToday blog:

lbsterling wrote: 2d 6h ago

For the story poster:
Greetings. I’m an AP reporter in Amsterdam. It’s true we didn’t file a story to go with this, but the photo caption contained the basic information.

It happened Friday in Dussen, a rural area near the city of Tilburg.
Police received reports of a man driving erratically. When they tracked him down, he was driving his father’s Mercedes; an officer who approached the car fell over when the guy suddenly gave it gas, and the policeman just barely pulled his legs away in time to avoid being run over. Eventually it took a couple of loaned 4×4’s and a helicopter to capture the driver: he drove into a drainage ditch.
The driver _ his name was not released _ confessed he was high on cocaine, and a small amount was found in his car.
His license was revoked on the spot, and he’s also going to face destruction of property charges.

Anything else you wanted to know?

Yeah, what does the farmer think about all this?

mocky_puppet 8 points 3 days ago

i read that the farmer was actually overjoyed that his field was so heavily damaged, because he needed money very badly and this crop was his last hope of surviving the winter.

- Reddit’s rumor mill

And so it was an exciting day for everybody.