1950s Italian motorcycle police demonstration

Posted by Adam Stanhope in Car & Vehicle, Crime & Law, Travel & Places, Video Clips on July 18, 2008 at 3:40 pm



This 1950s-era video ostensibly of Italian policemen demonstrating their skill as precision motorcycle drivers looks more like something one might expect to see from an acrobatic of dance troupe – not the police. I wonder if Italian police still do this sort of thing now 50 years later? LiveLeak.


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17 comments to "1950s Italian motorcycle police demonstration"

  1. Fran
    July 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    That was freakishly impressive!

  2. Xinavera
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    That's better than most drill-teams I've seen. Wow!

  3. Justin
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Ok was anyone else just waiting for one of them to screw it up and cause everyone to crash? :)

  4. sigh
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    "This one time, at motorcycle camp ..."

  5. CheeseDuck
    July 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    I don't want those police going after me.

  6. kid_icarus
    July 18th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Weeeeee!

  7. remlap
    July 18th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Incredible, thanks very much for posting this they were great back then.

    Cheers

  8. Dandy
    July 18th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Wow! Fantastic riding skills - never be done by any police force in the US today though...

  9. red
    July 18th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    It's entirely possible that they still do it today. The Canadian Mounted Police have been doing the same thing for decades on horses.

  10. Camillo Miller
    July 19th, 2008 at 7:06 am

    wll they don't do it no more... Well actually, police departments nowadays are struggling because in some case they don't even have the money to buy paper, or to buy gasoline...

    I'm not joking unfortunately...

  11. RM
    July 19th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    I would add some speed.

  12. Arty
    July 19th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Wonder how many hours of training they went through.

  13. SonOfMagicFact
    July 19th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    However, there's still the issue of Italian drivers... Mind you, I mean people living in Italy, not Italian American. ----- Don't whack me! :p

  14. SonOfMagicFact
    July 19th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    I also must add how incredibly trippy that film was. And the music sure added to the effect!

  15. Thomas
    July 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    If I ran from the police and looked behind me to see that coming at me, I'd shit a brick.

  16. unbelievable
    July 21st, 2008 at 6:49 am

    Being Italian, I'm surprised none of them got their knee down.

  17. ErinMycal
    July 26th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    I don't think any police department has the opportunity to drag that many officers off duty for the amount of training it would take for such a demonstration...

    Also... Am I the only one thinking that event would be the perfect time to commit some form of quick crime in the area?? Clearly they're all preoccupied.


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