This is just one of those moments where you give thanks for digital cameras and one-step online publishing.

Courtesy of Ridor, a blogger who identifies himself as the “Most Controversial Deaf Blogger in America,” today we find that even the District’s finest need a break from the usual toil of chasing after the city’s criminals. Ridor tells us that his friend and fellow blogger Jason Lamberton was going about his normal day on Sunday, only to look out the window as a police car passed by with sirens flashing. But this was no normal police car:

Last night at 4:58 PM, he [Lamberton] snapped four pictures that showed two patrol cars racing down the I Street NE at about 30 MPH. Jason was surprised to see the police officer riding on the hood of patrol car #162, laughing as it ran past the stop sign on I Street and 8th Street NE along with 3 cars following them by. All of the cars had the sirens on.

Naughty, naughty police officer!