An Arkansas motorcyclist didn’t know what he was getting into when he avoided the Arkansas State Police at a traffic stop.
The Arkansas State Police didn’t expect the unusual outcome either.
In a bizarre incident, a motorcyclist had the ill luck of being stopped at a traffic stop by a state trooper.
The incident occurred on October 13, and the Arkansas State Police caught the shocking result of the encounter on their dash-cam video.
The state trooper attempted to pull over the motorcycle, driven by Christopher Gaylor, 38, from Alexander, Arkansas. The trooper stated that he pulled over the driver because a license plate was not visible on the motorcycle. Gaylor refused to pull over, which resulted in a police chase at close to 100 mph, which went on until Gaylor jumped off his motorcycle in the residential neighborhood of North Little Rock, according to police and the video.
Another state trooper tased the motorcyclist to subdue him.
No one except the motorcyclist knew that his backpack was full of gasoline.
The taser caused a fireball, in which Gaylor was engulfed. There was about a gallon of gasoline in the backpack.
The state troopers were able to extinguish the fire in the shocking incident.
Although injured by the fire, Gaylor is expected to survive.
When he is discharged from the hospital, Gaylor faces several charges, including fleeing from the officers, which is a felony, failure to register his motorcycle, driving without liability insurance, driving with a suspended license and driving recklessly.