I was looking at a different story and saw the headlines for this one. Sounded interesting because I have a pretty high opinion of Game Wardens so I wanted to see what was up.

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LIMESTONE COUNTY (October 6, 2013) -- Law enforcement officials are searching for a man who fled from two state game wardens early Saturday morning, ramming their patrol car and leaving them injured.

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The headline and opening paragraph lead you to believe that this suspect directly injured the officers. And in fact, that's was the news reader Ke'sha Lopez tells us at the opening of the story (so it must be true). Later in the article and in the news video, it says that the Game Wardens were injured NOT when this meathead crashed into them but, instead, they were injured when they crashed their own car on a dirt road.

Then, it gets better. They profile Mart Police Officer SGT Powell. They show him loading this awesome AR-15 type rifle with adjustable stock, etc. into the trunk of his car. I am glad to know that at least they're packing more heat than what the ATF took into Mt. Carmel. But the best part of the story was when SGT Powell describes chasing the suspect down a dirt road and coming to a T-Intersection and crashing his own car.

This is exactly something we've discussed on the CenTex board before - how dangerous the rural dirt roads can be if you're unfamiliar with them. I would have thought that the local PD and local Game Wardens would have either local knowledge of the roads or a GPS that works better than the one in my 2002 BMW.

Heck, with two of them in the car, one of them should have had Google Maps street view out on his phone

I'm sure this suspect is a dirtbag and deserves to go to jail but I do think that it's funny that he's outrun law enforcement twice by causing them to crash their patrol units in pursuit. I always had the perception that law enforcement officials had to take more driver training than dirtbag fugitives.

I'm not surprised that the KWTX story headline and video lead-in duped me into expecting to hear that the suspect had assaulted two law enforcement officers and then left them on the side of the road as he made his getaway.

Most of your local yokel law enforcement in McLennan county are JuCO drop-out/t.u. fans who wish they real soldiers and are grossly overweight. As a result, said yokel is good for nothing aside from writing speeding tickets. I agree with you, OP, in that the assailant is probably a piece of societal excrement and was likely in possession of meth, crack or some other contraband. One would think these old boys would know the roads like the back of their hands, but apparently not. I've been gone from McLennan County for 16 years, outside of visiting my famn damily and I still remember the roads around Trading House, Mart, Riesel, West, Hallsburg, etc.

Pitiful waste of tax dollars, these fools.

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One would think these old boys would know the roads like the back of their hands, but apparently not. I've been gone from McLennan County for 16 years, outside of visiting my famn damily and I still remember the roads around Trading House, Mart, Riesel, West, Hallsburg, etc.

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That was exactly my point. And my other point is I can't believe the amount of firepower that these guys carry in the trunk. Of course I'm glad they are well armed because if something did go down, I don't want the cops getting outgunned. Although that might happen anyway since they were clearly out-driven.

Was in Waco a few months ago and took some backroads that my dad didn't know about. I guess he thought when I was in HS, I only stuck to the main roads. Everyone knows that all the parties worth attending were out in the country. Plus, you never really saw Woodway or Hewitt PD on the backroads.

Trading House, Mart, Riesel, West, Hallsburg, etc. roads are not the same as where this guy was running. The LCR's and Falls CR's that run between Mt calm Praire Hill Kirk Ben Hur across to Perry and Otto can be Be very tough to navigate. The farmers have so much land that they cut there own dirt roads between there fields that aren't on maps. Many of those dirt (not gravel) are taken by the locals when it is dry because they can be quicker. The guy they were following knew all of them.

The town cops should probably of let him go. At that time they just wanted him for an outstanding ticket. The roads they chased him on weren't inside the city limits or even the same county. It was not in their jurisdiction and they probably never driven down those roads. They didn't grow up there and would of never had a reason.

The guy was from around there as was his family. He was a long known theft and poacher. However recently, ... well Meth is a hell of drug.