Foot pursuits are one of the most dangerous and challenging aspects of a police officer's job. >> He's running to the backside toward the northwalk. >> But this one, let's just say it's a true one of a kind. >> Police. It's early evening in Lone Tree, Colorado, where officer Jacob Tar is dispatched to a shoplifting call, and the suspect fle. >> Come here. Hey, I swear to God, I'm going to tase your ass. Get on the ground. What did you do? You jump in the face. You did someone's backyard. >> About a minute into the chase, the alleged shoplifter, later identified as 33-year-old Emmetric Carpenter, seems to realize he needs to upgrade his getaway game. He's going to elude officer Tar. And it now appears that he might escape on a child's scooter. >> He's on the road back here in Acres Green. He just took a kid scooter. >> I felt a little defeated. I'm like, man, this guy might get away from me. And then I saw that bike and I was like, I can commandeer this thing and stay in the chase. And that's exactly what I did. I looked down and thought to myself, "Oh crap, this thing has training wheels on it." 232 CNN Cirrus and Omega. >> I remember feeling a little wobbly. I gained some stability and I I felt like, okay, we might be able to actually do this. >> Sir, did you see a guy on a scooter? >> The chase now pits the suspect's stolen scooter against Officer Tar's bike with training wheels. >> Got off to a rough start. um my knees to chest and how little extension I was getting. I remember it feeling pretty ridiculous. >> Yeah. You thought we weren't going to cut you, were we? Huh? >> 2.42. We went to pain. Actually, >> I'm not scared. >> D Now you scared. >> Uh he jumped on a scooter and I jumped on some kid's bike. I don't know if that's frowned upon, but I did. >> As long as you know where it is. >> Yeah, we'll return it. >> Where it came from. >> This one's got to be up there for uh a strange arrest. A wild weird different arrest. Never did I think I was going to be jumping on a bike with training wheels to chase a suspect. But that's what's great about this job is you don't know what you're going to get into every day. >> Nah, you're going to jail. >> A metric carpenter is taken to the Douglas County Jail. Charged with obstructing a police officer, two counts of theft.