Wow, and I actually wondered if I would get blasted for stating what I think about this incident.
Just to be clear on my opinion, I would never have replied had there not been an unwilling passenger involved in the whole thing. I really don't give a crap whether anyone runs from the police or not. If you die from a mistake at high speeds, whether you are running or not, that is a chance you took with your own life and property. Most of the people on this board take that risk regularly. I'm actually not that concerned with the whole putting the public in danger thing, when it comes to bikes, just because the light weight of a motorcycle is likely to do much less damage to a car than another car would.
I haven't run for many years, but I did a lot when in my teens. Even got caught once in a car when I was 16 and all I learned from it was that I needed a faster car. There was one particular time, back in the early 90's, that I was on some back roads in the country and passed a cop while speeding a little. I immediately hit the gas, like I always did back then in similar situations. I knew the roads and I knew that I was willing to push that Z28 harder through the curves than the cop could or would push his patrol car. About 5 seconds after I hit it, I heard a gasp from the girl in the passenger seat. I realized what I was doing and slowed it back down, got pulled over, and took my medicine. Luckily, all this took place while the cop was turning around and catching me, so he didn't know what I started to do.
Unfortunately, this cop didn't like me, as he had pulled me over before and I had his ex girlfriend in the car with me. No joke. He gave me the old eye test and took me in for DUI. Once they gave me the breath test, I was far under the legal limit, but it still cost me like $1000 to get an attorney to have it thrown out.
Anyway, the real point of this rambling is that I have been there and had the same choice to make, more than once, and made the right one to protect people riding with me in a car or on a bike. I have no room to judge anyone for running from the police. I was 19 when the story above happened and I will tell you straight up that I was a nut back then. But, I believe I have earned the right to tell you that you are a piece of #### if you do it dragging somebody else helplessly along.