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In the US state of Utah, police found that their vehicles have proven unequal to the task of pursuing a golf buggy. When police spotted the golf buggy burning doughnuts in a park they followed in hot pursuit but were unable to continue the chase when the buggy drove into a field and crossed some irrigation ditches. Police were later able to apprehend the suspect at his grandmother's house and commented that the buggy had been modified, with an engine replacing the somewhat less powerful electric motor fitte
July 17, 2012 Read time: 1 min
In the 1650 US State of Utah, police found that their vehicles have proven unequal to the task of pursuing a golf buggy. When police spotted the golf buggy burning doughnuts in a park they followed in hot pursuit but were unable to continue the chase when the buggy drove into a field and crossed some irrigation ditches. Police were later able to apprehend the suspect at his grandmother's house and commented that the buggy had been modified, with an engine replacing the somewhat less powerful electric motor fitted originally.

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