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**Title:** Unusual Police Dashcam Encounters
**Summary:**
A countdown of 13 shocking police dashcam videos, showcasing unexpected situations that officers faced, including:
1. **Impersonator arrest**
2. **Kidnapping victim found in a trunk**
3. **Tornado encounter**
4. **Infant saved from runaway shopping cart**
5. **Conversations with remorseful drivers (e.g., a fatal DUI crash)**
6. **Unexplained phenomena (e.g., a mysterious sphere on thermal camera, lightning striking cement)**
7. **Near-miss incidents (e.g., a plane crash, a car almost hitting an officer)**
8. **Surprising encounters (e.g., an escaped convict evading capture)**
**Format:** A narrative countdown with brief descriptions of each dashcam video, interspersed with the creator's comments and a promotional section before the #1 entry.
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**Incident 13**
1. In December 2017, a man impersonated a police officer in Tucson, Arizona.
2. The impersonator used fake lights on his car and a dashcam.
3. He pulled over and handcuffed innocent citizens.
**Incident 12**
4. Police in Louisville, Kentucky, made a late-night traffic stop on a vehicle.
5. A bound man (Shawn Bloemer) was found in the trunk.
6. Bloemer was kidnapped from his job at a Circle K gas station by four individuals.
7. He was in the trunk for four hours before being rescued.
**Incident 11**
8. A police officer in Newcastle, Oklahoma, encountered a tornado while patrolling.
9. The officer was forced to drive in reverse to avoid the tornado.
10. The tornado caused dozens of fatalities and damage.
**Incident 10**
11. Officer Adam Brunswick in Spooner, Wisconsin, stopped a child in a shopping cart from entering traffic.
12. The child's mother had lost control of the cart while loading another child into their car.
**Incident 9**
13. A driver (Craig Maker) in Canadian County, Oklahoma, caused a fatal accident on New Year's Eve.
14. The accident killed two innocent drivers; the driver was charged with two felonies.
15. This was the driver's fifth DUI arrest.
**Incident 8**
16. A police officer in Gautier experienced a close lightning strike while on patrol.
17. The strike caused a smoldering fire in a chunk of cement.
**Incident 7**
18. A South Wales police helicopter detected a mysterious sphere using a thermal camera.
19. The sphere was not visible to the naked eye and had no radar match.
**Incident 6**
20. A police officer in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, witnessed a bright white light (possibly a meteorite) in the sky.
**Incident 5**
21. A deputy in Pinellas County, Florida, responded to a plane crash.
22. The plane was piloted by MLB player Roy Halladay, who had multiple intoxicants in his system.
23. Halladay died in the crash.
**Incident 4**
24. Police in Los Angeles stopped a man (Richard Lee McNair) who was later revealed to be an escaped convict.
25. McNair had escaped prison twice before and was serving a life sentence for murder.
**Incident 3**
26. A New Jersey police officer avoided being hit by a moving car during a routine traffic stop.
27. The officer demonstrated quick reflexes to roll away from the vehicle.
**Incident 2**
28. An officer in Glenn Heights, Texas, responded to a burning vehicle near a restaurant.
29. The officer safely moved the car to prevent a larger fire.
**Incident 1**
30. A gas leak in a South Jersey neighborhood caused an explosion.
31. Despite efforts from officers and gas line workers, 15 people were caught in the blast.