Excitement in Tenerife

Forget the golf, we had some real life drama on Sunday morning as we drove to Amarilla. A car screamed up from behind us with a police car in hot pursuit – we noticed that there was a blockade of police cars at the roundabout ahead, but the getaway somehow managed to get round the roundabout and was about to head back down the autopista when one of the police cars skilfully nudged him on the rear wing and effectively steered him off the road.

Immediately, the place was a swarming mass of police officers and the scene became like a “Police Camera Action” clip – guns were pulled and the criminal immediately put his hands up – there was a real fear in his eyes – “don’t shoot!”. He was hauled from his vehicle and given a severe kicking by the police. We had stopped to watch all this drama and I took my camera out of my holster before my brain kicked in and I realised it wasn’t a very good idea to film police brutality in action!