[AlvinKarpis]

Rachel Ellen Ondersma, a 17-year-old high school senior, was stopped by the state police in Grand Rapids, Mich., early on the morning of Nov. 14, 1998. She had been driving erratically. When she failed a Breathalyzer test, the cops placed her under arrest.

An officer cuffed the girl's hands behind her, put her in the back seat of a police cruiser and locked the doors, leaving her alone. What happened after that was captured on a video camera mounted inside the vehicle.

The video camera showed a clear view through the windshield of the police cruiser. The microphone picked up the sound of Ms. Ondersma sobbing, and then the clink of the handcuffs as she began maneuvering to free herself. She apparently stepped through her arms so that her hands, still cuffed, were in front of her. She then climbed into the front seat of the cruiser, slid behind the wheel and started the engine. As officers shouted, ''Hey! Stop!,'' she roared off.

With the car hurtling along, tires squealing, Ms. Ondersma can be heard moaning, ''What am I doing?'' and ''They are going to have to kill me.''

I got a copy of the video and studied it, looking closely at the reactions of the police. Ms. Ondersma was almost immediately chased by troopers and officers from the Grand Rapids Police Department. At one intersection a Grand Rapids cop car approached head-on. Thinking Ms. Ondersma would be forced to stop, the officers opened their doors and were about to hop out. But Ms. Ondersma careened into a left turn and sped off.

With several cars chasing her, the drunken teen-ager roared onto a freeway, where she was clocked at speeds that reached 80 miles per hour. At least two police cars got into the lane in front of her and slowed down while another closed in from the right. ''Oh no!'' cried Ms. Ondersma as she crashed into a concrete median on her left. She seemed boxed in. The video showed cops leaping from their cars and heading toward her.

Ms. Ondersma threw the cruiser into reverse, backed up, then lurched forward, plowing into one of the police cars. At that point gunfire can be heard as cops began shooting out her tires. The teen-ager would not stop. She backed up, then lurched forward again, hitting the cop car one more time. An officer had to leap out of the way to keep from being struck.

Somehow Ms. Ondersma, a clear and potentially fatal threat to anyone on the highway, managed yet again to get away. But this time, with at least two tires flat, she could no longer control the vehicle. She crashed into another concrete divider and finally was surrounded.

[Shelbeano ^-^]

Great post! I don't care how drunk you are, you're sober enough by the time the cops arrest you to know NOT be a fucking idiot. I hope that's not what this girl claimed, because the audio from the video shows otherwise.

[Betty White]

I bet she isn't the brightest when sober, either.

[kellyhound]

stupid drunk cunt.

[Angelahh]

Crazy! I was trying to find a pic of her online....

[Kyle416]

She has a facebook I believe.
I couldn't find anything online that said what kind of time she got for that. The clip seems to mostly be known for the cops treating her nicely.

[slash4321]

Cool post
I'd love to know what she thought she'd achieve. They have her details and can easily find out where she lives even in the unlikely event she managed to get away!? I guess that's the point though: she didn't think.

[AlvinKarpis]

Originally Posted by Kyle416 ↗

I couldn't find anything online that said what kind of time she got for that.

She was a minor at the time so any court records would be sealed.

The only way to find out would be if somebody knew her and was told what her sentence was, her charges, etc etc

Maybe she will Google her name and see this thread

If she does I will buy her an invite as long as she promises to make a post about what happened through her eyes

[LadyCPlum]

I saw this years ago on World's Wildest Police Videos. What a dipstick,.

[AmericanIllusions]

Such bullshit. Towards the end she was really using that cruiser as a weapon and she didn't get fired upon not even once. We've all seen men killed for far less.