Re: Disrupter beam

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

You guys have been watching "Viper" and "Goldeneye" waaaay too much.

Pure Sci Fi, and that line about airports and dodge caravans...pure BS...

Brett

> I remember a little device that was being tested for police use a while
> back...
> It was a small rocket propelled (?) device that would be mounted at the
> bottom of the front spoiler a la James Bond, and if the police were
> involved in a high speed chase, when they got to a less populated area
> they could launch this thing at the car in front of them.  It would get
> under the engine bay and start letting off horrendous bursts of EMI or
> something that would fry any electronic components (i.e. ECU, ignition
> controls, etc) of the car so it would stall.
> Pretty neat...I wonder if anyone uses these yet?
> --
> Elliott
>
> Brandon Hull wrote:
>>
>> >my conclusion
>> >is that I must have driven through some kind of force field >that
>> temporarily
>> >disabled the ignition system of the car.
>>
>> Maybe not ludicrous.  Reading C&D or R&T, or something in a barbershop chair
>> not too far back, I remember an article wherein the editor's rental Dodge
>> Caravan refused to start after an overnight in an airport parking lot.  When
>> the tow truck driver saw the car, he said that this happened "all the time"
>> with late model Chryslers, and the Dodge mechanics concurred.  "Something"
>> in the blizzard of radio signals engulfing the car disabled the ignition.
>>
>> Brandon Hull
>> Anyone know a good source for lead foil?

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