The Hartford Courant reports on a domestic disturbance in the early hours of February 5 in Springfield, Mass.
After talking the man out of his girlfriend's house in what was initially a calm encounter, he asked the police for permission to go back into the house to collect his things. When the police denied him that (trying to keep the situation from escalating again), the man suddenly lost control, spit on the police car, and threatened to steal it.
Then he dove into the car; a police officer pepper-sprayed him, but that didn't stop him. He locked the police out of the car and took off.
He then drove around disrupting the police by taunting them over the radio, jamming the radio service for regular police business.
The police eventually boxed in the car and arrested him after breaking out a window. He has been charged with multiple counts.
What would have simply been a warning and a good-night sir turned into multiple felonies.