Somethings tells me that having a high-speed police chase come right through your hunting spot isn’t exactly going to help draw in the big bucks.
It’s estimated that around 11 million people in the United States call themselves deer hunters. And of those 11 million deer hunters, I’d venture to say that only a handful (probably happens more than we think) has ever had their hunt interrupted by an active police chase. At the very least, this guy is one of the first people to witness it and get it all on video.
A professional bass fisherman (and an avid hunter) by the name of Jay Burger was just trying to enjoy opening day of firearm season in Indiana. He was seated in his box blind, patiently waiting for a deer that was worth pulling the trigger on. What he ended up seeing instead was a dramatic car chase that came right through the plot of land that his blind was set up on. Obviously, the footage he captured is now going viral.
This situation gives a whole other meaning to the “great outdoors being an escape.” At one point, the driver trying to evade the police made a not-so-smart business decision to stray off the road and take their chances driving through the dirt. I’m not expert in cars, but it certainly looked like the official police vehicle was better equipped for off-roading than the getaway car.
All the Indiana hunter could do was put down his weapon, pick up his phone and press record. It’s already an incredibly absurd situation, but when you throw in the detail of the car trying to get away being a mini-van, it makes it that much better. That’s got to be the worst car you could choose to try and evade the police in.
I would imagine that Burger probably called it a day after this one, right? There’s no chance that a deer would come within shooting range after this level of commotion – unless it just had to see what was going on. The fact that deer tend to enjoy running in front of cars leaves the door cracked open a bit, I guess.
And don’t even get me started on the visuals that just put this video over the top. The minivan throwing up dirt and dust, the quick-panning camera work to capture both vehicles speeding by, the Mountain Dew sitting on one of the shelves inside the blind. It’s cinema. All of the greatest Hollywood directors working in tandem couldn’t reach this level of pure, visual magic.
Jay Burger said it best:
“You just never know what you will see in your box blind on opening day of hunting firearm season… What a day!”
What a day indeed.
And hey, shoutout to Jay Burger for overlaying Waylon Jennings’ “Theme from ‘The Dukes of Hazard’ (Good Old Boys)” onto the clip that he posted. I can’t think of a better fitting song than that one to include in the wild footage. It certainly feels like a scene out of The Dukes of Hazard.
And just because we’re here… check out some of Jay’s beauty smallies on the St. Lawrence River:
