--- title: This Ill-Fated Blind Date Escalated Into a Police Chase description: An Alabama woman on a blind date ended up pushed out of her date's car as he led cops on a police chase over the weekend. canonical: https://time.com/4584275/blind-date-police-chase/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-28T22:51:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:59.104Z og:title: This Ill-Fated Blind Date Escalated Into a Police Chase og:description: It wasn't quite the fairy tale ending the Alabama woman might have expected. og:url: https://time.com/4584275/blind-date-police-chase/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Ill-Fated Blind Date Escalated Into a Police Chase twitter:description: It wasn't quite the fairy tale ending the Alabama woman might have expected. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Ill-Fated Blind Date Escalated Into a Police Chase > Sponsored content. 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The unnamed woman was set up with a man later identified as Jesse Allen Elliot, 22 years old, and was riding in his car when cops pulled Elliot over on an interstate for a traffic violation, local news station [WRBC reports.](http://www.wbrc.com/story/33807055/blind-date-ends-with-chase-woman-being-pushed-out-of-car-in-walker-county) He provided a name and birth date to the officer, who went to check the credentials (later determined to be false). It was at that point, Alabama news site [AL.com reports](http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/11/womans%5Fblind%5Fdate%5Fpushes%5Fher%5Ff.html), that Elliot pushed his date out of the vehicle and led police on a car chase into Walker County, during which his driving was “erratic.” He was able to evade officers and reportedly remains at large. Police, meanwhile, drove his date home. Luckily, she was unharmed in the incident. “I think these two are off to a bad start,” Chief Deputy Randy Christian told AL.com, “and whoever fixed her up has some explaining to do.” This is apparently not Elliot’s first brush with the law; he has outstanding misdemeanor warrants, and his driver’s license was suspended at the time he was pulled over. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4584275/blind-date-police-chase/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4584275/blind-date-police-chase/"},"headline":"This Ill-Fated Blind Date Escalated Into a Police Chase","datePublished":"2016-11-28T22:51:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:59.104Z","description":"It wasn't quite a fairy-tale ending for the couple","url":"https://time.com/4584275/blind-date-police-chase/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Dating","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4584275/blind-date-police-chase/","name":"This Ill-Fated Blind Date Escalated Into a Police Chase"}}]}] ```