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RANT: This morning on the way to church, I was on I-10 heading East on the HOV lane. The car in front of me was swerving and came VERY close to hitting the concrete barriers at least 5 times. We started approaching the end of the HOV lane and we about the merge into the main lanes of I-10, so I told my wife to get out her cell phone and we called 911 and gave HPD the description, license # and current location of the vehicle. We continued to follow him from a safe distance as he was still travelling in our intended direction.

A few minutes later we were on I-45 going north and we got a call back asking for an updated location. We gave it and he began to slow down to 45 mph, then up to 75 mph, etc. I decided to follow him past my turnoff and he exited the freeway and stalled out (manual transmission). I once again called HPD and gave them his current location and I was told by this dispatcher in a very condescending tone, "you don't need to follow him anymore, let the police handle it".

By this time I'm thinking a cop would be along any minute so I continued to follow from a distance for a few more miles as he got back on the freeway, almost running into several cars. He finally got off the freeway and turned down a crossroad. I turned around and went back to church, sure that they never would catch him then.

This was very frustrating. This guy was a serious threat to the safety of others and I gave 3 accurate and timely locations of this guy, but HPD apparently doesn't have the resources available to get this guy off the road.

Arrrrgghhhh!