Police dashcam catches view of blazing meteor

[HuckleB]

Full piece...
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/05/watch_police_dashcam_catches_v.html#incart_river_mobile_home

"A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday.

The bright flash visible from several states was apparently left by a meteor burning up as it passed through Earth's atmosphere. Other people and webcams also captured images of the fireball.

The American Meteor Society reported more than 400 sightings in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and parts of Canada.

Portland police Sgt. Tim Farris was parked in front of the Central Fire Station when his camera captured the meteor lighting up the sky around 12:50 a.m.

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Very cool, I think!

[Photographer]

1. Sgt. Ferris then arrested the meteor on

suspicion of being an illegal alien and speeding. The meteor was shot while resisting arrest.

[Maine-i-acs]

6. Not in Portland ME -

I know the Sgt. in question and that's not something he'd do, of course.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Why would he do that?

It's white.

[Ghost Dog]

2. Nice.

[HuckleB]

7. +1

[Agschmid]

3. Kick!

[Egnever]

4. Cool!

[rug]

5. How fast did he clock it?

[forest444]

8. Definitely cool; but, tradition has it, a bad omen.

It's said to bring upheaval in the established order - especially on all grand poobahs and their hangers on.

Coincidentally (or not?), Hillary just had an unexpected loss in Oregon.

[HuckleB]

10. This was in Maine, though.

[forest444]

11. Oh, good.

That spells trouble for my favorite governor, Paul "Baron Harkonnen" LePage.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[HuckleB]

12. I sure hope so! -eom-

[forest444]

13. How the same state could elect a gentleman like Angus King,

and a bag of shit like LePig, is beyond me.

[HuckleB]

14. I don't know enough about Maine's politics, but I can't fathom how that happened.

[Stevepol]

15. How do they count the votes in ME, by hand or by black box?

[HuckleB]

16. Good question.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

20. Both have a town called Portland.

Coincidence? I think not!

[HuckleB]

22. It's not a coincidence.

The city in Oregon was founded by settlers from the east, of course. Two of the town's early leaders were from Portland, ME and Boston. They flipped a coin to see which of their past cities would give its name to the new one.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

25. I did not know that.

The conspiracy goes back further than I thought!

Seriously, cool bit of info. Many thanks.

[C Moon]

17. When I lived in Pasadena California I saw lots of meteors while out walking my dog...

but WOW! Nothing that lit up the sky at all! That is amazing!

[HuckleB]

19. Yeah, that was crazy bright.

It does seem like you must have seen some big ones, too, in Pasadena, with the city light pollution, no?

[C Moon]

23. It was probably when we had Santa Anas (clear skies)...it was on the east side of Pas

where the city lights aren't too heavy. But yeah, they were distant high up in the sky ones. It was nice.

[HuckleB]

24. Awesome!

We're always backpacking in August for the Perseid meteor showers. It's such a blast.

[niyad]

18. way cool!!!

[HuckleB]

26. Indeed.

[Omaha Steve]

21. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS