traffic woes and laws

[Rocky Mullin]

	gallagher has a bit like this.  everyone should have a gun roof
mounted on their car that shoots little suction cups with flags that say
"STUPID" on them.  when a car goes by a cop with fifty or a hundred of
these stuck to it, they get pulled over and get a ticket for being stupid.

At 6:29 AM -0800 3/30/04, Kevin Boykin wrote:
>Ok I just had a comment about citizen reports - I for
>one do not want arrests to be made and guilt assumed
>just because of a report of my or other citizens.
>Don't forget there are tons of morons on both sides of
>the fence. 
>
>That being said, I feel your pain - I live in the DFW
>area and driving here is an experience better left
>untouched.  3-4-5 lane highways with mixed driving
>speeds of 45mph to 85mph, and mixed styles from
>scared-to-be-alive to aggressive as a nascar driver.
>And most of the aggressive drivers seem to be driving
>Ford F350 diesels...crazy.
>
>But forget about your desire to kill them - lets be
>more creative.  The law obviously can't catch all the
>a$$es out there, and in fact only seems to focus on my
>when I'm driving safely albeit 10 over...
>
>So here's an idea for a helpful, safe device.  This
>device will be intended to be attached to the culprits
>car.  The device will have two main functionalities.
>Firstly it will have speed sensing ability, primarily
>a knowledge of when the car is coming to a stop and/or
>is stopped.  You may know what's coming next.  The
>second main function of this device (and arguably, THE
>purpose of this device) would be to create an
>electromagnetic pulse.  Ideally this would be local
>only, so only the car that the device is attached to
>is affected.
>So now, we have a device, but how do we deliver the
>device to the culprit's (moving) car?  Think
>paintballs.  A paintball will be harmless if it misses
>the intended target, and will be harmless to the car
>itself (no body or paint damage).  So we develop a
>sticky substance for the paintball, that will have a
>good bursting/spreading/sticking set of properties.
>Likewise the device will have to be small enough and
>robust enough to handle the projectile and impact
>phase of delivery. 
>So then how does the device become armed?  Remote?
>Maybe it should have the ability to ground to the car?
>Too many possibilities and this is just a silly email
>:)
>
>I think this idea would actually be a very good one
>for law enforcement so that they don't have to engage
>in dangerous car chases.  Arguable any perp will run
>harder when being chased.  Don't chase him, he won't
>run.  Embed a tracking device on his car and meet him
>at his destination.  Or employ the electromagnetic
>pulse idea and shut him down (dangers there -
>especially at speed)
>
>Anyway I'll shut up now and get back to my real, and
>boring, job. 
>
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