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Mistaken identity: Watch this news helicopter start following the wrong car during a police chase ( Video at link)
Los Angeles' CW affiliate completely blows a low-speed car chase
There’s no better way for a local news channel to burn screen time than capturing a live police chase -- it’s a perfect combination of chaos and familiarity that fixes eyeballs to TV screens during the middle of the day. Of course, local news stations also have a way of completely dropping the ball, which is exactly what happened to the KTLA News helicopter during a seemingly low-speed police chase.
During the chase, the suspect drives under an overpass, and the camera jumps to an innocent man driving a black Chevrolet Impala. While the suspect and the person not at all associated with the chase are driving similarly colored cars -- both are black as you can see in the video above -- but that’s about where the similarities end.
Of course, we’ve seen this happen before -- most recently in the fantastic first chase in “Baby Driver” -- but it’s kind of mind-boggling how it would happen in real time. Adding insult to injury, the man in the Impala stopped at a gas station for what appears to be a snack. The abrupt stop didn’t slow down the news anchor covering the chase at all, who went on to describe the man’s pants and boots -- ignoring the guy’s high visibility vest.
If you’ve never seen this play out in real life -- here’s your chance. Check out the video above to see a beautiful comedy of errors.