Any idea just how many times I have been tempted to do exactly that? Of course, not with the police involved. Either that, or just park the truck in the middle of the road and walk away from it?
"They fired their guns into the engine of the lumbering giant and it came to a stop."
Should have been "They fired their guns into the head of the driver and stopped the chase and saved the tax payers tens of thousands of dollars in the cost of a trial."