EXCAVATOR CHASE

There was an excavator chase down a main highway in Charleston, South Carolina on Sunday morning. Officers saw the big piece of construction equipment go across US Highway 78 around 3:30am. A few minutes later, they got a burglary call about the stolen excavator, so they gave chase, reaching speeds up to 3 miles per hour. A human can walk faster. The cruisers would have to briefly stop several times a minute so they wouldn’t pass the excavator. The chase went on for an hour and 12 minutes before ending at the Charleston County fairgrounds, where it got stuck. The 53-year-old driver was arrested.
* Let’s see him dig his way out of this one.
* Maybe stealing an excavator was on his bucket list?
* Not fast, maybe a little furious.
* Not so much a chase as a tag-behind.
* They could have walked up and grabbed the key, but I’m sorta with the cops on this one: let’s just see how this ends up.