True Story:
I represented a police officer in a personal injury accident a few years ago. Why?
A Miller Beer delivery guy stopped at a convenience store to make a delivery. He left the keys in the truck while wheeling in his load.
A drunk homeless man hops up in the truck, turnes it on, and takes off. He decided his friends at the downtown Jesus House would like a few cold beers and he would drive the truck over there for them. Hey, you've just stolen a beer truck, why not sample some of the inventory on the way? Well he did.
An army of Oklahoma City Police officers descend on downtown because there is a beer truck running red lights and smashing cars. He's not stopping. Finally this jackass turns on fifth street and hits the gas. Bad news.
The Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial is dead center in the middle of 5th Street. If they don't stop this truck, this guys is going through the wall and into the reflecting pools.
Police issue orders to shoot out the tires. My client had a .357 magnum. He wiped out five tires and saved the 5th shot for the driver. My client was also a sniper on the Tactical team so this was not out of the possibility range for him.
Meanwhile he and his partner are trying to ram the beer truck into cars and anything parked on the street. He's not stopping. At the last second, my client wedges his car up under the beer truck and goes for the ride of his life.
Sparks are flying and the Crown Vic is being ripped to shreds. It looks like they were too late. This guy was going to ram the memorial. At the very last second the truck made a 90 degree turn, with my client stuck inside his car underneath a beer truck, and ran into a building and stopped.
The entire OCPD was at the scene and they Rodney Kinged that driver pretty good. This was before tazers or I am certain he would have been shot by a thousand tazers at once. As they were flinging him out of the truck, he yelled "Hey I was just taking my buddies some beers at the Jesus House!"
The End
(P.S. My client broke his back and the suit was dismissed under the "Fireman's Rule." That rule states that emergency workers cannot sue the person causing the emergency, so people will call emergency workers. It is called the Fireman's Rule because some lady started a kitchen fire, called the fired department, and then was sued by a fireman when he was burned. Legal lesson over).