Police in South Carolina engaged in a not-so-hot pursuit as they chased a tractor excavator down a main highway for more than an hour at the speed an average adult walks.
The chase reached speeds of 4.8kph early on Sunday morning in North Charleston, police said.
Officers on a different call saw the big piece of construction equipment with treads and a shovel in front go across US Highway 78 at about 3:30am, North Charleston Police wrote in a report.
Photo: a screen grab from North Charleston Police Department website
A few minutes later, they got a burglary call from a business that was heavily damaged and saw the excavator slowly heading away, police said.
Several police cars immediately joined in the very slow pursuit. The excavator was going so slow that the cruisers would have to briefly stop several times a minute to not pass the construction equipment.
They had their blue lights and sirens on, and told the excavator driver over their loudspeakers that he was under arrest and needed to stop.
Other police cruisers blocked traffic.
The chase went on for an hour and 12 minutes before the excavator drove on to the Charleston County Fairgrounds property, where it got stuck.
The driver tried to run, but was followed by a drone until a police dog and handler caught up, authorities said.
The 53-year-old driver of the excavator was charged with failure to stop, and two counts of malicious injury to real property, jail records showed.
He was being held at the Charleston County jail on a US$22,000 bond, they showed.
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