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As we are all told, the new Helang Lebuhraya Mitsubishi Lancer Evos purchased by the police are to be used for high-speed chases. While it would be exciting to see one I really can’t think of any way to see one in real life without you being in danger yourself. Have you seen a high speed chase in real life before? I know all I’ve seen are chases in movies, but here’s one that happened in real life just over a week ago!

47 year old Peggy Ann Boesing first allegedly tried to run over officers with her car and then led Californian highway cops on a high speed chase in her Scion that went all the way from Long Beach to Rancho Santa Margarita. It lasted about an hour, from 6am to 7am. In efforts to lose the cops, she even went the opposite direction on a highway!

Really dangerous! View the chase from a helicam after the jump.

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  1. Bw said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 1:52 am

    what a crazy b*tch!! She could have hurt someone for driving like that!!!

  2. blabla said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 1:54 am

    cool!! hoho.. let’s see how our malaysian cops deal with that!!

  3. scanzew said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 2:27 am

    i prefer lamborghini for PDRM if malaysia hav same situation huhuhu

  4. DinKnight said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 2:33 am

    a bit more practice on NFS Most Wanted would prolong the chase.

  5. msi said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 2:45 am

    SHE???..damn. wat car did she drive? look like a compact car.

  6. CocoBear said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 2:58 am

    I dun think Malaysian cops will have the guts to box criminals with their Evos.

  7. xshiro said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 3:40 am

    scion XB ..another toyota brand

  8. bpkid said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 5:41 am

    in america, this kind of news is encouraging people to do stupid things for a few minutes of fame. at the same time, TV stations will get more monies too.

  9. Tiadaid said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 6:24 am

    She’s being chased by the Police but she had the decency to turn on her hazard lights. LOL!

  10. EricG said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 7:12 am

    NAH..I THINK SHE PLAYS NFS HOT PURSUIT TOO MUCH.

  11. legacy88 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 7:40 am

    You want some? Come on BI*CH!!!

    Ha ha that prove that you need power on tap to drive lunatic like that. Can Exora do that? Ha ha ok ok joking only :)

    Well done Scion!, a.k.a Toyota. :)

  12. azrai said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 7:54 am

    Hey, Perodua can debandgec the Scion and CKDed it at Rawang plant and use this clip for their TV commercial. Save their budget.

  13. rexis said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 8:40 am

    First, our plus highway do not have that many direction to spin your car.
    Second, our other highway will have a lot of “blockage” aka tolls.
    Third, there is unlikely to spin around KL like tat.
    Lastly, however, if theres any, is PDRM gonna smash their EVO into a kancil like tat? O.o

    PS: Omg, scion smoke police car!
    PS2: d police damn kecoh liao.

  14. JULIAN_LEE said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 8:54 am

    after this everyone also say toyota boleh. *roll eyes* lame

  15. lowprofile said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:11 am

    the scion xb she was driving was the old model. it is also known as the toyota bb and naza did bring in a few of those a few years ago. the new xb looks different but still boxy. it is sold in singapore as the daihatsu materia and competes with cars like the new nissan cube, suzuki sx4 and the kia soul.

  16. bugbear1986 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:11 am

    acceleration, the scion is faster than the cops.. haha!

  17. theanswer said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:36 am

    [quote comment="231999"]Hey, Perodua can debandgec the Scion and CKDed it at Rawang plant and use this clip for their TV commercial. Save their budget.[/quote]

    also known as Daihatsu Materia….ini mabuk kuat ni pompuan neh.

  18. newbie said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:53 am

    that girl is just having fun…imagine benny hill background sound.

  19. CRUDE said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:54 am

    what took the cops so long??… hahaha… the Xb can outrun the crown vics…hahah..madness..

  20. lchan said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:56 am

    you guys call her crazy bitch. We can’t even deal with our f**king mat rempits.

  21. p1basher said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:29 am

    wow free toyota handling promotion clip o_O or scion promotion clip for women, “Scion XB – you too can be wild and crazy :)

    more and more crazy people lately…that damn b**** dont she know she could have killed someone driving like this? damn our f****** mat rempit too just copy everything tat looks cool from western…

  22. Chris Chong said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:31 am

    Awesome stuff, this…

    When the cops hit the back of her car, i was hoping she’d counter-steer and go into a short drift :)

    From that angle, the chase looks like it’s straight out from Grand Theft Auto 4

  23. bmpower said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:48 am

    NFSMW!!!..

    just like what i always did!. ;D

    err.. but the ending is not get busted like her… hehehe

  24. Littlefire said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:59 am

    Wow.. Maybe this is a new marketing way for Scion Xb.. In can run offroad!!! And also turn corners fast n in small radius! LOLZ!!!

  25. ali said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:05 am

    [quote comment="231963"]a bit more practice on NFS Most Wanted would prolong the chase.[/quote]

    hahaha… i think she’s an NFS fanatic!

  26. carsut said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:17 am

    she can drive..

  27. RT said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:48 am

    Notice that all Police cars have bull bars.

    The Malaysian Evo should have one if they are to beat the same trick as the Scion.

    RT..

  28. jamsbong said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:59 am

    This woman is really defiant! and rather clever too. I’m surprised to see that her Scion/Toyota is even faster than the police cars on the highway.

    I suspect she had too much GTA gaming or NFS gaming.

  29. epol said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

    p1 should do this kind of advert for exora.. imagine some nasty makcik high on wheel with her new exora..police give a chased with their old mitsu and non-cps waja, but way too behind the exora.. they then call their new s80 and lancer to give a chase but the makcik drift left and right on sharp corner perfectly that make the chaser langgar pokok and and some crash into bus stop. police then call their xc90 vip escort to give a chase, the xc90 close enough to kiss the bumper of exora when suddenly the makcik make a sharp u turn, both exora and xc90 rollover but only the exora back to its tyre with no kemek at all. the xc90 got some kemek and cannot back to stand position. police dunno what to do, they contact their gov contact who happened to be the chairman of mat rempit assoc. out of nowhere, come 200 mat rempit gave a chase to the makcik with their jap model ( got some modenas too but left behind, not in tv screen ). the mat rempits close enough when suddently the makcik spin the exora, all the mat rempit fly out with their rempit machine. not giveup, the police then call their new neo-cps team… haiyya.. out of idea oredi.

  30. neg7 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 12:25 pm

    gila punya makcik… baru lepas mati anak kot mau bunuh diri, lol…

  31. neg7 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 12:37 pm

    [quote comment="232096"]p1 should do this kind of advert for exora.. imagine some nasty makcik high on wheel with her new exora..police give a chased with their old mitsu and non-cps waja, but way too behind the exora.. they then call their new s80 and lancer to give a chase but the makcik drift left and right on sharp corner perfectly that make the chaser langgar pokok and and some crash into bus stop. police then call their xc90 vip escort to give a chase, the xc90 close enough to kiss the bumper of exora when suddenly the makcik make a sharp u turn, both exora and xc90 rollover but only the exora back to its tyre with no kemek at all. the xc90 got some kemek and cannot back to stand position. police dunno what to do, they contact their gov contact who happened to be the chairman of mat rempit assoc. out of nowhere, come 200 mat rempit gave a chase to the makcik with their jap model ( got some modenas too but left behind, not in tv screen ). the mat rempits close enough when suddently the makcik spin the exora, all the mat rempit fly out with their rempit machine. not giveup, the police then call their new neo-cps team… haiyya.. out of idea oredi.[/quote]

    wahh very long story line, that already can do short movie lah. and the title can be “Makcik Bedah and her bold Exora” with tag line “mat rempit, don play-play with makcik ha” hahaha.

  32. wan256 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 12:41 pm

    Perodua…please bring Materia in M’sia..sure highway ‘makan asap laaa’..haha

  33. kutu said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 12:50 pm

    nice one!!! i like the blocking formation made by the cops. wonder if helang highway are willing to do this formation. hihi

  34. izaman said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 1:00 pm

    [quote comment="232096"]p1 should do this kind of advert for exora.. imagine some nasty makcik high on wheel with her new exora..police give a chased with their old mitsu and non-cps waja, but way too behind the exora.. they then call their new s80 and lancer to give a chase but the makcik drift left and right on sharp corner perfectly that make the chaser langgar pokok and and some crash into bus stop. police then call their xc90 vip escort to give a chase, the xc90 close enough to kiss the bumper of exora when suddenly the makcik make a sharp u turn, both exora and xc90 rollover but only the exora back to its tyre with no kemek at all. the xc90 got some kemek and cannot back to stand position. police dunno what to do, they contact their gov contact who happened to be the chairman of mat rempit assoc. out of nowhere, come 200 mat rempit gave a chase to the makcik with their jap model ( got some modenas too but left behind, not in tv screen ). the mat rempits close enough when suddently the makcik spin the exora, all the mat rempit fly out with their rempit machine. not giveup, the police then call their new neo-cps team… haiyya.. out of idea oredi.[/quote]

    the best comment for this blog today. LOLOLOL

  35. sixspeed said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 1:08 pm

    Having lived there before, I assure you this is totally normal in Southern California. Whenever this happens (as much as once a week at times) all the local channels switch live to some car chase that they follow with their news choppers. Usually it’s some lame chase that ends after a while with the guy surrendering but sometimes it is quite good. I think the big difference is every channel there has helicopters to use whereas here the cameras get there only after the chase is over (and usually all the suspects shot dead already :P ) Sometimes they even have near-misses in the sky over chases cause too many police and news helicopters haha.

    If you really wanted to see it in real life Paul, there are even some crazy people who find out where the chase is from tv then go and try and see for themselves from the roadside or flyovers lol

    BTW those California Highway Patrol cars may look slow but they’re all running 250hp 400nm 4.6L V8 with HD suspension so not too bad for ordinary patrol cars. And much better for PITing a car than something as delicate as a Lambo or Evo. The CHP pursuit cars are 5.0L lightweight Mustangs.

    motorcycles, cars, even stolen 7up drinks lorry being chased, a guy with a stolen army tank chasing police, Heat-style bank shootout with AK-47 gunmen vs police, huge crashes, guy committing suicide with a shotgun on closed freeway, all these things have happened uncensored on LIVE TV. Better than any movie, and free!

    Funny enough, despite all this, normal day-to-day driving feels much more dangerous here in Malaysia :P

  36. Kazu said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

    [quote comment="231968"]I dun think Malaysian cops will have the guts to box criminals with their Evos.[/quote]
    why shud they?…u gonna pay for the damages tho’…
    using ur taxmoney…

  37. sharviin said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 1:29 pm

    Perodua Copen!! malaysia first Cabrio!!

  38. 0204 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 2:52 pm

    [quote comment="231958"]cool!! hoho.. let’s see how our malaysian cops deal with that!![/quote]

    No point.. you gonna hit into Traffic Jam at some point and you’ll have to stop.. foot petroling police also can catch you… well ofcourse if we have any foot petroling police…

  39. 0204 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 2:56 pm

    [quote comment="231958"]cool!! hoho.. let’s see how our malaysian cops deal with that!![/quote]

    No point local police doing that… the fella sure run into traffic jam at some point.. foot petrol police also can catch them… well ofcourse if we have any foot petrol police..

    BUT .. we can send some of our best MAT REMPIT to challenge the police in California.. 2 wheels is nauthier than 4..

  40. BalaiSeven said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

    I dun think malaysian police will spend an hour ‘playing’ cat n mouse chase, they will fire in the hole instead…tembak sampai kereta tu henti dan semuaRhH mati..

  41. kremer said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 5:07 pm

    [quote comment="231990"]NAH..I THINK SHE PLAYS NFS HOT PURSUIT TOO MUCH.[/quote]
    yeah u are right!. like NFS.. we cannot see in malaysia ma….no heli (late to arrive, expensive fuel) and once u use federal highway or kesas…u cannot go anywhere…if in persiaran kewajipan or Hicom, use basikal also can catch u…

  42. jai said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 5:11 pm

    that car is Scion Xb /Toyota Bb / Daihatsu Materia

  43. kremer said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 5:25 pm

    [quote comment="232096"]p1 should do this kind of advert for exora.. imagine some nasty makcik high on wheel with her new exora..police give a chased with their old mitsu and non-cps waja, but way too behind the exora.. they then call their new s80 and lancer to give a chase but the makcik drift left and right on sharp corner perfectly that make the chaser langgar pokok and and some crash into bus stop. police then call their xc90 vip escort to give a chase, the xc90 close enough to kiss the bumper of exora when suddenly the makcik make a sharp u turn, both exora and xc90 rollover but only the exora back to its tyre with no kemek at all. the xc90 got some kemek and cannot back to stand position. police dunno what to do, they contact their gov contact who happened to be the chairman of mat rempit assoc. out of nowhere, come 200 mat rempit gave a chase to the makcik with their jap model ( got some modenas too but left behind, not in tv screen ). the mat rempits close enough when suddently the makcik spin the exora, all the mat rempit fly out with their rempit machine. not giveup, the police then call their new neo-cps team… haiyya.. out of idea oredi.[/quote]
    u forgot..the makcik stop the exora and yelling at the police that left far behind with baju kurung kedah and kain batik, she yelling and yelling, after the cops came close, the makcik, jump to the exora seat and drive aways with full of speed and no to forget the exora is prime edition…All the mat rempit die already and the police got no idea cos the makcik’s exora too fast to handle, luckily the police call the extra unit..the lorry hantu….highway, jalan kampung, kawasan sekolah, jalan tanah merah..maximum speed no problem!…then all the lori hantu gathering at the R&R as usually discussing on how to block the makcik with powerful exora…not to forget the towing gang also there cos the lori n towing gang are friends…while gathering..all the taxis with no meter also arrive….tha chief of lori hantu, lori pasir driver, said “this time we will and must sacrifice to the police, we must help them, last time my licence die also can kaw tim” the evebody agree…. once they got information the do a road block at persiaran kewajipan subang…normally without road block the jam are about 2 hour for 1 km, now almost 24 hour for 1 km…then the makcik came close to the road block, u turn cannot, behind entire IPD there…hohohoh the makcik masak sudah….then she brake, and with the powerfull brake and effectiveness of lotus engineering handling..she stop without sliding..then……(aiyooo sudah pukul 5 mau balik..next time la continiu…:) )

  44. szw said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

    lady driver , tsk tsk tsk

  45. Gajen said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 6:06 pm

    in msia…there’s hardly any chases..lets all be honest even if there was one..how long would it last? there’s jam here and there…buying the evos was a waste of money…not a wise move, in my opinion…cheers

  46. lan87 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 6:15 pm

    owh dem…
    this aunty is crazy lor…
    it reminds me of the auntie drivers back in my hometown in ss2, pj…

    owh btw, it would be kind of cool if proton were to do the adverts for real, but its definitely not going to happen because of moral issues…

  47. lambov12 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 6:25 pm

    i dun think we can see such cahse in malaysia ..

    all those thefts and crazy drivers not NFS fanatics ..

    so they jus know how to do basic stuff .. such as accelerate and crash into a tree ..

  48. mystvearn said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 7:22 pm

    I thought this news was sometime ago?

    One good thing to note is that the turning circle is smaller compared to the cops

  49. prolever said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 8:54 pm

    i wander if i can see a chase like this in malaysia…..
    but all our highway have the roadblok ( tol la)……
    dont now how to escape……….
    last last..dummmmmmmmmmmmmm
    hentam into the ditch…….
    and than get arrest……
    typical for malaysia chase……

  50. slimershine said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:01 pm

    the lady only get 2stars police. not good enough to get the lotus exige 5stars police. hahahaha..

  51. willpower said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 9:31 pm

    Can you all see that this Scion actually have better pick up than the cops car?
    Awesome acceleration

  52. MinyakMahal said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

    How do you know? The Police KPI maa less acceleration less fuel consumption. longer chase time more OT. Itu pasal la those police never kick down the acceleration to the max… Another thing that lady using Toyota engine with VVTi…. so no care about consumption…

    any way the chase will be more dramatic, than just a simple spike strip like NFS…

  53. 27 said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:30 pm

    I think they are chasing on highway I5, way to San Diego, I think the police are using some ford or mecury car…might be…

  54. KS_Phang said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 10:32 pm

    i want to point out something. Does anyone notice that officers in that video only take action on the car when it is safe to do so? I’ve seen some videos on TV, that are seriously not the case. Where and what they did i can’t tell you guys.

  55. dan said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:15 pm

    yep that true , there know there job n a cod of there job and act pro as a notional security and a gover ppl been salute not like more out malaysia boleh gov only know how to miss used there power whiteout a brain there have .

  56. mitlanevo said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:22 pm

    already seen on youtube few days ago….

    super crazy YEAH!!!!!

  57. AbangTerra said,

    April 20, 2009 @ 11:38 pm

    walaoooo….Hollywood man !!!…want to see them chase a Scuderia or a Gumpert…ahahahha…

  58. Sionggee said,

    April 21, 2009 @ 2:08 am

    Just imagine 10 Evos is chacing a criminal~haha..

  59. _xXx_ said,

    April 21, 2009 @ 8:35 am

    hey it’s just a 1.5L car!

  60. nic said,

    April 21, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

    Something rang my head.. What would the ‘Evo polis’ do even if they got to chase up the ‘wateva speeding vehicle’ on the highway, if she/he doesn’t intend to pull off the road? They hit on it using the Evo? And there goes the money???
    Or whether’re they going to run on the bushes…?

  61. osh_kosh said,

    April 21, 2009 @ 1:09 pm

    she’s crazy… must be on drug or something..

  62. obses nak lari said,

    April 21, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

    toyota bB tu….. nak test a buat pakai kenari turbo nenek ipar aku….
    stakat evo10 polis tadahal a…
    evo10 baru mesti syg punye nak langgar2…
    ‘hahaha….
    gurau suda…
    jgn tangkap saya ye encik polis yg gagah perkasa….

  63. GHJ said,

    April 22, 2009 @ 1:11 am

    wau, wat car did tat lady drive? it is fast!

  64. Joe said,

    April 23, 2009 @ 8:06 am

    Try to see if Malaysian Police dare to pull of the PITT maneuver using the “Helang Lebuhraya” EVO X on criminals.

  65. dd said,

    April 25, 2009 @ 5:42 am

    one hell of a lady driver! woohoo!

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