OT: EU group mulls 'remote car-stopping device' for police

Political? Perhaps, but I think it was more societal (cops only being allowed .38s for decades), and certainly macho (one-handing a .44Mag can't be anything else but braggadocio). ;-)

On a sunny day (Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:23:47 -0500) it happened snipped-for-privacy@attt.bizz wrote in :

Whan I see videos from Syria and Africa everybody carries a bazooka? Walmart have them?

Nah, they've been out of ammo for a couple of years.

You are an optimist. It will be hacked and turned over to terrorists before it is fully deployed.

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Oh I am sure this will happen. Then for better public protection each policeman will have access to anyones kill-button. Anyone of the general public, that is. No chance to miss, no need of direct line of sight. Well, accidents do happen, you know, "we all grieve with the family of..." but it is for the greater good of all of us, you know. With all these terrorists around we are doing our best to protect you...

Mind you, I don't contradict your assessment of me as being too optimistic. In fact I believe it is correct, so far reality has always managed to beat my dystopic expectations.

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Doesn't sound radically different to predator drones.

Oh yes they can!

There is still a dead zone where certain models have to be towed away notably the moors near Goathland a picturesque tourist destination used for the filming of Heartbeat (and also Hogsmeade in Harry Potter).

High end cars with lots of fancy electronic gizmos are worst affected.

It also happens in a couple of other locations where powerful radar is facing Eastwards for threats and made the news more recently in 2006.

(had to use the Wayback machine to get this one newspaper site broken)

I have actually visited the Fylingdales BMEWS site whilst the old dishes and CDC7600 were still in service and inside a golfball.

It beats me only about 75% of the time. But it usually much more freedom destroying than i could ever try to think up.

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