Police dashcam video shows the dramatic ending to a high-speed car chase in Florida when a 24-year-old man crashes through a fence, headbutts the passenger side window and “comes flying out like a dolphin.”
Tyler Fayconsolo was arrested in the fracas on Sunday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in an amusing news release accompanying the video.
“That is one way to use your head,” the agency said in the title of its Facebook post. “You’re probably wondering why Tyler Fayconsolo was arrested earlier this week. That is a great question, and we would love to tell you.
“You see, Tyler decided not to use his head most of the night, and it started with him leaving the Circle K on SE Maricamp Road at a high rate of speed, driving erratically,” the post continued.
Fayconsolo drove at speeds of up to 100 mph, officials said. He was unable to maintain his lane and ran a red light.
A corporal, suspecting the driver of being drunk, tried to pull him over, but he wouldn’t stop.
Instead, he tried to elude the corporal by driving on the wrong side of the road and entering the Greenway Trailhead parking area, where he almost hit two people parked there, officials said, punctuating the line with a see-no-evil-monkey emoji.
Police spike sticks — which deflated the vehicle’s tires — didn’t even stop this guy, they said.
But a concrete fence in the backyard of a home on SE 23rd Street did.
“This is where Tyler used his head, but not how you should,” officials said in their news release. “He headbutted the passenger side window and came flying out like a dolphin.”
But in “Tyler fashion,” authorities continued, “he stopped using his head once again and thought running from a K-9 was a great idea.”
The police dog — Jet — was released and “took a bite out of crime — and Tyler.”
He was arrested and taken to a hospital, where he told deputies he was “High as f—” before being booked into “the lovely Gold Star Hotel.”
He faces charges of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, aggravated fleeing with injury or damage and resisting without violence, authorities said. His bond was $53,000, and his next court date was set for Nov. 14, online jail records show.
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