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...classic Hollywood car chase scene, all that really matters is whether the cops get their man in the end, collateral damage and legal niceties be damned. Think Steve McQueen as Bullitt pursuing a black Dodge Charger through San Francisco and then, just outside the city, pulling along side to smack the car into a gas station for a pyrotechnic finish. Or Gene Hackman, as detective Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, careering through Brooklyn streets while chasing a villain in an elevated train, smashing cars along...
...Five years ago, Deputy Sheriff Timothy Scott of Coweta County, Ga., a rural area 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, had his own Bullitt moment. On a Thursday night at 11 p.m., as a second deputy watched from the side of the road, a car whizzed by doing 73 in a 55 mph zone. The deputy gave chase, his blue lights flashing, but the car accelerated quickly. It ran red lights, crossed double-yellow lines to pass other cars, and hit speeds exceeding 90 mph. Curiously, before every turn, the driver put on his blinker...
...vehicle. Ford has sold more than 8 million since the car's debut in 1964. In this scene, though, nobody cared about that stuff. "Steve who?" asks a guy who never heard of McQueen or the green fastback in which he ripped through San Francisco in the 1968 movie Bullitt. "What's it do, zero to 60?" Inside the bar his date keeps glancing at her watch. She'll have to be patient...
...intent in 1942 when she set up the trust in accordance with rules mandated by a long history of judicial precedent in Pennsylvania, together with the failure of the court to apply the holdings of a line of cases dealing with what is called implied gifts,” Bullitt said. “They’re not addressed in the decision of the Superior Court, and therefore leads us to believe they were not adequately considered by the court in reaching its conclusions...
...petition for reargument is not granted, Bullitt said his clients would then have 30 days to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court...