Not-so-hot pursuit of burglary suspect sees police cars chase tractor excavator at walking pace

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Police in South Carolina engaged in a not-so-hot pursuit as they chased a tractor excavator down a main highway for more than an hour at the speed an average adult walks

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Police in South Carolina engaged in a not-so-hot pursuit as they chased a tractor excavator down a main highway for more than an hour at the speed an average adult walks.

The chase reached speeds of 3 mph early Sunday morning in North Charleston, police said.

Officers on a different call saw the big piece of construction equipment with treads and a shovel in front go across U.S. Highway 78 around 3:30 a.m., North Charleston Police wrote in their report.

A few minutes later, they got a burglary call from a business that was heavily damaged and saw the excavator slowly heading away, police said.

Several cars immediately joined in the very slow speed pursuit. The excavator was going so slow that the cruisers would have to briefly stop several times a minute to not pass the construction equipment.