Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia flipped a six-figure John Deere farm tractor on its roof last Saturday as the driver attempted to negotiate the on-ramp to Highway 1. One of the cops drove his Ford Explorer into the right rear wheel of the Deere, and unlike a traditional PIT Maneuver which would pitch the vehicle sideways, it appears the tractor’s tire climbed the side of the cruiser, upending itself. The tractor was likely already somewhat unstable, taking a highway onramp at speed.
We still have a lot of questions about what actually happened to make Canadian police decide to execute such a dangerous PIT maneuver but video posted to social media, and obtained by Global News, depicts the cruisers chasing the farm tractor down Pacific Highway in Surrey, B.C. Just after noon on Saturday, the tractor allegedly broke free from a convoy of protestors and drew the attention of Surrey RCMP. This convoy of dipshits took to the streets of B.C. to protest the the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity topics in province schools. The tractor was waving a flag in its back window reading “STOP SOGI 123” in which ‘SOGI’ likely stands for ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’.
So while it’s unfortunate that the driver ended up in the hospital, it sounds like it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Here’s what he was so fired up about, according to the Canadian government:
- Speaking about SOGI in a way that makes every student feel like they belong
- Not limiting a person’s potential based on their biological sex and how they understand or express their gender
- Welcoming everyone without discrimination, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity
Paramedics and firefighters arrived on the scene of the rollover shortly after the fact, and were seen rolling a stretcher into an ambulance. B.C. police have yet to release a report of the incident, but did comment that one person (the driver) had been taken into custody and transferred to the hospital with ‘yet-to-be-determined’ injuries. News reports from the area seem to indicate that the driver’s injuries are non-life threatening.
My favorite part of the interview that Global News conducted with a local can be seen at the very end of their video, in which he says—in his best casual Canadian lilt “I’m not an auto body guy, or an ICBC [Insurance Corporation of British Columbia] guy, but I think that one’s a write-off.” Good eye, ya left coaster hoser.
Anyway, nothing rolls like a Deere.