car harpoon

["Randy Little" <rlittle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I read an article once about a car harpoon.  It was just a large barbed
>spike attached to the front of a police car.  Simple use too, it would ram
>the fleeing car from behind, piercing its bumper, sheetmetal, and then slow
>the car down with the patrol car's breaks.  Then another car is supposed to
>get in front to further slow down the offender.  Seems fairly simple, but I
>for one think that due to its simplicity it should work.


What I see is a Police car ripping the rear bumper of the fleeing car as it
decelerates then hopes on the gas ripping the bumper clean off the car.


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