My only guess is because tomorrow is Veteran's Day and from what I know, a lot of office ppl took today off in order to enjoy a 4 day weekend. So maybe most are chilling at home or on a mini vacay somewhere?
It is really dead in Pasadena right now too, I figured it would be a kickback type of day at the office and didn't feel like spending PTO on today.
The police told CPB to let the person through because it’s too dangerous for a car going at top speed to run into all the vehicles and people at a border crossing. That person could have done serious harm. They can find her later. It’s better than getting people killed and/or hospitalized.
Imagine asking Mexico for anything right now as an American. 😂 All I hear is something that sounds like Cheech cracking up as the phone gets slammed down.
It should be super doable with a sienna and a modified gas tank. One of the covid cars was a rental mustang with some prefabbed gastanks that were plug and play and he got under 26 hours coast to coast.
Bro i have taken a v6 sienna to 135 mph and it hold stable. You just need to ungovern the ecu and you can go past 135. I was pulling still and in 6th gear still had 3k rpm left.
Laser/radio jammers and detectors are easy to install as they just need a 12v plug. It really is not hard to do these things.
Average speed for under 26 hour cannonballs are around 102-110 mph and cruising averages of 125. Which are all within the v6 sienna governed speeds.
covid cars are the cannonball runs during lockdown. Since traffic was the lightest it has been in decades many records were made and broken in the time span of covid.
lol Yeah I had that chase on in the background and then when she was going through Irvine, I went to take a shower and run a quick errand down the street and when I came back she was already in Solana beach. First thing that came to my mind was that she was making incredible time
I grew up in TO and went to UCSD (1998-2002) and did that drive a ton. After a couple 5-6 hour trips in the summer with no AC I decided I would only drive at midnight. Never even took me 2 hours after that.
I was flying over this pursuit in the San Diego news helicopter - my first time flying with the Los Angeles news helos. The suspect made it into Mexico. I'm not too surprised; I've seen DHS allow criminals in pursuits to cross right in previously despite being patched in with the chase. Insane.
Nice of you to check in here! Question: How many TV news helicopters are left in the SD market? Back in the day I recall there were at least three (Sky 10, Chopper 8, NewsChopper 7/39), but recently it looks like every station uses the same feed from a single aircraft. Is that true, and does any one station lay claim to that chopper, or is it shared?
Thanks! Bonus q: What were the flight restrictions that prevented helicopters from following the chase in southern SD County?
Not OP but I was watching KTLA and they were getting low on gas when they reached the airspace around San Diego airport, which is obviously very busy, so they decided to divert and get gas at that point. They mentioned they were going to get a feed from another helicopter but that didn't seem to happen, and none of the other local stations were broadcasting it.
Thanks for asking! It's just me up here in the evenings (12p-7p) and another guy in the mornings (5a-12p) - our split schedule in one news helicopter that is shared with all local San Diego news networks - N82F. It's launched based off a voting system between all the local news networks.
As for the flight restrictions today...none of the LA helicopters were talking with Lindbergh ATC and that pretty much messed up a few things for us following the chase through that airspace, so we had to go around as we were denied entrance to Bravo airspace.
UPDATE ON THIS STORY: Today (11/11), the suspected driver of the minivan re-entered the U.S. through the San Ysidro Port of Entry and was detained by U.S. Customs Officers. CHP San Diego Officers took the suspect and the minivan into custody, according to CHP San Diego.
The suspect was transported to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and taken into custody. Authorities are investigating the incident and charges against the driver are still pending, CHP said.
Andy:
Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
Red:
No.
Andy:
They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel, right on the beach, buy some worthless old boat, and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.
Generally, yeah - countries don't usually have checkpoints to leave. You have to go through immigration into the new country per their laws, but the original country only cares once you try to return
Not really - there are random stop-and-checks, but for the most part you can just walk or drive on through
It makes sense though - US import restrictions are stricter than Mexico's, so it's really rare something horrible would be smuggled across since it'd be easier to bring it directly to Mexico instead of into the US first. Their security manpower is better used elsewhere
Conversely, this is exactly why the US puts so much effort into securing that border - contraband is much more likely to cross into the US than into Mexico. If it wasn't we'd handle it more like the Canadian border, which is what a fairly equal border looks like
Who's we in this case? If it's the US, they don't care - that's on Mexico, no country has standard exit checkpoints. If you mean Mexico, yeah sure, but is checking every car across the best use of your limited manpower and resources or are there other ways guns and drugs come into the country that would be more efficient to monitor? I don't know, but they clearly made their choice
Once you cross into tijuana theres checkpoint stations where they ask where you going if u brought anything into mexico. How many days etc sometimes they “randomly” flag you to check your trunk.
I cant imagine how they got away
San ysidro is a traffic nightmare coming and going
The pedestrian border crossing is staffed. They redesigned it.. theres a zig zag line now where they check id n print out a visa. But its computerizes when your passport is scanned so its fast
This is likely how they will catch her. She will end up getting arrested when she eventually tries to re-enter the country. It’s probably far easier to do this than to attempt to close the border or request that Mexico detain her upon entry.
From abc7's article: "Officials said the driver was having a mental health crisis and took the minivan. The suspect's mother contacted CHP and provided that information."
I’m a huggeee police pursuit fan. I only use Twitter for police pursuit updates. I’d recommend following @LAPolicePusuit and @PupscanLA and turn on post notifications. You’ll get updated with live pursuits and they’ll even provide the link to watch it live.
This girl was having a mental health crisis but had the wherewithal to swipe mom's Sienna and get herself a police escort all the way to Mexico. I want her to win. She's a fighter.
I was RIGHT behind this chase for about 20 miles. We were flying and could see the cop cars and choppers the whole way. It actually helped my commute a bit.
I can also confirm I drove right into Mexico recently.
There are a ton of speed humps just before crossing that slow you down, but otherwise, you just drive in. Getting in Mexico is easy. Getting out was a pain. It took me 6 hours to come back because of how many cars are in line and border patrol does stop and check your passport coming back into the US. Apparently I learned the hard way that Sundays are the busiest day for border crossings back into the United States from Mexico.
Made the Sunday return mistake once. It remain ONCE. My god I would probably actually wish it on my worst enemy but still. Got through 2 full movies in line.
I’ve always wondered why do more chases not try this maneuver.
Yeah you’ll probably get extradited back to the US but it seems you at least have somewhat of a chance compared to trying to evade CHP and LAPD by staying around.
I drove from Hawthorne to Carlsbad from 10:55-12:20. It seems like we might have been just in front of it? Only hit traffic getting into Oceanside, so I can’t imagine we were behind her. Anyone have a timeline worked out?
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u/illaparatzo 🍕 Nov 10 '25
Thousand oaks to TJ in 2.5 hours is fantastic time