How far can you drive your patrol car?

[snopes]

Comment: I am a retired police offier from Ohio. The police chief I worked
for was a collector of old police badges and interesting police
information. He had a photo of a LA California police car with a
background showing it I beleave in Kansis. The story went like this.
Officers in LA started up an unofficial competion to see who could drive
their patrol car while on duty the farthest from the LA city limits
without getting caught. The rules were that they had to take a photo of
an identifiable landmark with the car included. Mostly this just produced
pictures of police cars pulled up next to city limit signs for nearby
small towns but some of them got quite a way out of LA. One officer was
an Air National Guard member and got wind of a training flight going to
Kansis and back to LA during the course of one of his shifts. While on
duty, he and his partner, drove their cruiser onto a C130 which flew it to
a base in Kansas. The car was unloaded, the photo taken and then it was
reloaded for the return trip to LA. I don't doubt that a pair of officers
could arrange to not have to answer any calls during their shift but is it
even possible to make the flight with loading unloading and turnaround
time? It is possible that it was a shift longer than 8 hr. For obvious
reasons, the officers were not shown in the photo, only the car without a
number visable.