Minn. Cop on Vacation in FL Stops Carjacking

[MarcSpaz]

So weird.

A Minnesota cop on vacation in Florida was the victim of an attempted carjacking, but instead, helped local security subdue the perp.

I have a friend who lives in Minnesota that is part of a National Mustang club I am in too. This story is about one of his friends, a local cop, was on vacation in Orlando with his family and a couple they are friends with. He was trying to leave the airport with a rental van just after arriving when some dude tried to carjack the van the LEO was in while the perp was being chased after trying to steal a rental car just seconds before.

The vacationing LEO is the guy with his knee on the perps head for the last 30 seconds of the video.

Video: Minn. cop on vacation thwarts man attempting to carjack him

Though lethal force was not needed in this case, I still feel this is a great example of why National Reciprocity is needed and every CHP holder should travel (even air travel) with their weapon. If you don't have a permit and you go somewhere you can OC... bring your weapon. This could have gone south really fast.

[SHMIV]

I used to work about a mile from the airport; lived less than 5 miles from there.

[MarcSpaz]

Very cool. When were you living down there? My younger brother lived in Winter Park (about 10 minutes away) for a long time. Then he moved to Altamonte Springs. I'm pretty familiar with the area after hanging out a few times a year with him for the last 20 years.

It's always been heavily policed and stuff like that doesn't happen too often. I was kinda surprised to hear about it.

[SHMIV]

I was there from 7/07 to about 10/08. I didn't stick around too long; just long enough to not be missing some bad habits and bad influences.