holy acceleration!

so driving home yesterday, i missed the beginning of the whole series of events on the radio, but a state trooper was working his way up the highway. as i approached the initial 'scene' traffic was compacted but moving as he was clearing, shutting off lights, and apparently getting back into traffic. fast. like, gone, now.



he broke away as did a few other vehicles myself included.



he then slowed up at a courtesy patrol van who was stopped with a vehicle. he more or less came to slow creep in the slow lane, with no traffic behind him for probably half a mile. i got into the middle lane as i saw him slowing and began slowing myself but still managed to catch up to him. almost. he shut the light back off and holy hell took off. the roar of that thing was loud in my vehicle. the smell of the exhaust was pungent, and he was off to the next...whatever. this all happened pretty quick and i was monitoring another channel, so once i exited i managed to catch the tail end of this units transmission at the stop that he took off for.



it was a fast, impressive display of shear power out of the state troopers charger. it was almost like the traffic cooperated and he was having fun cranking through a couple quick stops. anyone know what they do to the chargers for police use? i mean, the thing was like a souped up drag car or something!