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25 minute drive takes all afternoon and night?


I get that these people are out in the middle of nowhere, but how does a 25 minute drive take the sheriff and his deputy all afternoon and until the end of the night to walk there?

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Once a 10 minute drive took me 4 hours to walk...so it kinda makes sense

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Yeah really, it takes about 10 minutes to drive out to the Wal-Mart in our area and it would probably take half an hour or about an hour to walk back from there.

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25 minute drive, at say 70 miles per hour limit road. lets assume no stops in between (unrealistic).

This menas that the distance is 29.16 miles. Now, they did not seem to be walking really fast or anything, so we can assume 2-3 miles per hour. This would mean the journey would take them 10-15 hours depending on how fast they were going.

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If the 25 min is 20 miles for instance, how long would it take YOU? Have you ever walked 20 miles? I promise it would take you at least 6- 8 hours. Simple math.





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Why didn't they just radio for another police car????

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25 minute drive assuming an average speed of 60mph, is 25 miles. If they were only driving for say 10 minutes that leaves 15 miles. An average walking pace is 2.6mph a fast pace is about 4 mph. Assuming the fat cop cant walk very fast lets for for 3mph in the middle. At that pace doing the 15 miles would take 5 hours assuming no rest breaks. Summer day, with late sunset and early sunrise it seems feasible since the cops did arrive at dawn. I'm going to say they started walking at 10pm had 15 miles to walk, took 2, 15 minute brakes and would therefore take 5 and a half hours to walk it so thats about 3:30am just when the sun starts to rise in mid summer. Seems reasonable.

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It wasn't summer though, it was fall, the leaves had already changed and it was cold out.

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Again why not radio!?!

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With how dumb these cops were, they probably didn't even know what a radio is. "Uh...what's this machine in the car that voices come out of? I never noticed it before."

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those cops were a couple of idiots.

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the phone lines were down for a while. but that is different-a phone & cb. but i think that's the excuse.

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