Police Derby Rodeo

I had a chance to go out to Granstville, Utah, and watch the Utah Highway Patrol Police Derby Rodeo (my brother hates it when I call it a derby. He says derbies are for scouts. I don't think "rodeo" is much better). Motor squads from various police departments from the West come and participate and compete in different courses to see who completes each course the quickest, and without any errors. Salt Lake PD ended up kicking some butt, and my bro ended up taking 2nd place overall out of the best in the West. Way to go! It's amazing to see these guys lay the bikes over far enough to scrape their tail pipes.


Here are a few more shots.

This is Melissa now. Typing, not in the picture above.  If you've seen Arrested Development you'll appreciate this sound clip in an ode to Ryan's brother.  http://soundboard.com/sb/jvp3122.aspx. Copy and paste it and click on 'Hey Hermao'. I can't figure out how to link it. If you just listened to it I'm sorry about the anti-climaticism. I thought it was a good idea at first. Ok, I'll hand it back to Ryan, he's much better at this. 
Utah Highway Patrol has a cool new toy tool called a variable mutifunction lejoscropic magnificator. OK, I made that up. But, they have a camera mounted to the bottom of a small battery-powered helicopter, and they use this to hover over accident scenes and take pictures and videos to be able to reconstruct accident scenes. One officer flies it, and one officer takes the shots. Kind of cool.