Police Device Breaks Off Fleeing Car's Axle
Police Device Breaks Off Fleeing Car's Axle
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Great news! We've recovered your stolen vehicle.
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It brought the chase to an end with no injuries, that's definitely a win.
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It is well known that police chases far too often unnecessarily escalate situations, causing them to be more dangerous in the first place.
How many police chases are for non-violent offenses?
Simply not worth it from these largely untrained, out of control, trigger-happy, power-fetishists.
Also a lot of police maneuvers go bad. Just because this one turned out okay doesn't make this okay everywhere. They are lucky it didn't snap or cause the car to careen off some other direction.
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Give it 5 years and cops will just phone in your license plate number and the manufacturer will turn your car off. Or, more realistically, lock the doors and self-drive you to the nearest police station.
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Joke's on them; I drive a 20-year-old car (350Z Roadster Touring 6MT in Daytona Blue)
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Might be substantially safer. A forced deceleration is extremely dangerous and potentially deadly to all parties and bystanders.
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Finland was streets ahead back in 1996
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Oh, you had kids in the back seat. Sorry, that's on you.
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Vlad the Impaler made this
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pretty sure that's a front wheel drive, wanted to see them trying to continue dragging the chasis
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Bad car!
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Seriously, though, this and the jute runner in the hallway. Mm-mmm.
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Here, you can see an example of the phenomenon that inspired Tron's famous light bikes.
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Amazing piece of kit those, and a lot safer than a Pit maneuver or spike strips.
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I'm sure they'll figure out how to use it to kill a disproportionate amount of brown people. Just give them time.
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And dogs
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In before it gets used to drag people.
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You know an even safer one?
Track them via existing cameras and from the air. Then you dont need to chase them.
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Yeah, the existing cameras on US back roads, and a helicopter that costs a few grand an hour to run.
Great idea.
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if there's a helicopter following someone they're still gonna run. I don't see how your idea is any better than what already happens.
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Instead of launching a tether they could just stick a tracker to the car and follow them at a leisurely pace.
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You know whats safest what normal civilized countries do? They dont high speed chase other cars endagering everyone around but just note down the licsense plates. You have the name of the person and at some point they gonna turn home.
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How was it attached?
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The police car has a long pier-thing just out of shot below the hood. The rope would sit on that until triggered to tangle on the axle.
As for how it's triggered, dunno.
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Dumbass should have just used a knife to cut the rope. Now their car is totaled and they have a felony charge.
Edit: sigh* /s
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In all my years of Lemmy, Reddit, various forums, AIM, IRC, etc., I don't think I've felt a typed sigh more than that one.
For real that person should have got out and cut that strap with their oversized ribbon cutting ceremony scissors. Completely serious, not sarcastic.
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I can't tell if this is ragebait or you just really don't understand how high speed chases work
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Never trust a fart
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Now you tell me...
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The device being able to lose tension is very scary. You need all drivers to be in control at all times without sudden jerk.
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There's a reason you use chains over straps to pull stuck vehicles out whenever you can. The tension can build and launch hooks or even the hitch back at the other vehicle. It's not even that rare of an occurrence.
Use chains when possible and wrap it around the frame, not hitch when possible.
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The cops pulled you off? Oh my god
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This kills the vehicle
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I think you'll find that it was the driver that pulled it off, not the cop, the cop was just chilling.
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Witness me!
Thanks for recovering my stolen car...
Well obviously the owner can recover its full value from the thief and there is no way that the thief would be judgment proof and that the whole thing will drag on for years.
Also, in the US, it is incredibly unlikely someone needs their car to go to work anyway, and they have great workers' rights and the owner can't be just fired on the spot "for cause" for this.
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I'd feel a lot better knowing the thief got caught though, rather than finding it burnt out on the side of the road.
The police burned down my house and shot all my pets but I'm just glad they arrested the thief even if he was let back out before I was even able to wipe up the blood.