New way to catch car thieves

[Orangecat]

This is awesome:
Log into Facebook

 

[Manonthestreet]

This is awesome:
Log into Facebook

Don't do Fakebook

 

[norwegen]

New way to catch car thieves is to log into Facebook?

Hell, they can have my car.

 

[Orangecat]

Don't do Fakebook

Sorry, couldn't find another link to the video.
Livonia MI cops with some kind of grappling hook. Ended up pulling the rear axle off a car trying to escape. Fun to watch.

 

[Yarddog]

Sorry, couldn't find another link to the video.
Livonia MI cops with some kind of grappling hook. Ended up pulling the rear axle off a car trying to escape. Fun to watch.

I was hoping for some kind of double sided tape.

 

[JGalt]

Sorry, couldn't find another link to the video.
Livonia MI cops with some kind of grappling hook. Ended up pulling the rear axle off a car trying to escape. Fun to watch.

It ripped the whole damned rear axle off.

 

[Darkwind]

oops

 

[petro]

I love the thieves persistence, even when things look hopeless.

Imagine if they put that effort into not being shitbags.

 

[toobfreak]

It ripped the whole damned rear axle off.

I about fell off my chair when I saw that!

They sure make 'em good these days!

Too bad the driver didn't know that nylon straps have super high tensile strength, but that he could have backed up, reached out his car door, picked up the strap and cut the strap in two with a common kitchen or razor knife and driven away.

 

[Natural Citizen]

It ripped the whole damned rear axle off.

Hm. I wonder how that works. He nailed it on one shot. Seems like it would rely more on luck to work. And you only get one shot at it.

 

[toobfreak]

Hm. I wonder how that works.

I thought about that as well and concluded that the car manufacturers are working in cooperation with the police to make their cars compatible with the car capture design system.

As such, there should be a simple mod any car owner can do to defeat the ability to lock onto their rear axle.

Even better, with a little extra effort, one could make it that when the cop tries to grab your car, not only do you get away, but it leaves him attached to something which stops him from driving away further chasing after you.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I thought about that as well and concluded that the car manufacturers are working in cooperation with the police to make their cars compatible with the car capture design system.

As such, there should be a simple mod any car owner can do to defeat the ability to lock onto their rear axle.

Even better, with a little extra effort, one could make it that when the cop tries to grab your car, not only do you get away, but it leaves him attached to something which stops him from driving away further chasing after you.

Well I want em to get busted. lol.

**** those shitheads. lol. I hate thieves.

But I still wonder how it actually works. Magnetics would seem viable but it'd have to be a strong magnet. And many suspensions are aluminum, too.

A hook isn't really accurate and then it would have to actually hook and wrap or whatever it does.

 

[toobfreak]

But I still wonder how it actually works.

Giving it some thought, I think the video gives us some clues. Notice how he had to get right up on the car in front of him essentially tapping its bumper.

I believe they probably have an arm that extends out in front of the cop car with a camera on the end of it.
Driving up on the errant auto, the arm extends to look up under the bumper to see the carriage of the car.
AI runs a recognition program that identifies the type of car, front wheel or rear wheel, axle or not, control arms, etc., and selects the best grappling point.
AI then knows where to aim, how hard to fire and how far, and fires the grappling clamp which can hook onto and snap closed (spring driven) on the target item.
At that point, the full 30 feet of cable is released and the police got their man.
Any attempt to flee will, at best, eventually rip apart some essential part of your drivetrain you need to drive.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Giving it some thought, I think the video gives us some clues. Notice how he had to get right up on the car in front of him essentially tapping its bumper.

I believe they probably have an arm that extends out in front of the cop car with a camera on the end of it.
Driving up on the errant auto, the arm extends to look up under the bumper to see the carriage of the car.
AI runs a recognition program that identifies the type of car, front wheel or rear wheel, axle or not, control arms, etc., and selects the best grappling point.
AI then knows where to aim, how hard to fire and how far, and fires the grappling clamp which can hook onto and snap closed (spring driven) on the target item.
At that point, the full 30 feet of cable is released and the police got their man.
Any attempt to flee will, at best, eventually rip apart some essential part of your drivetrain you need to drive.

Yeah, you might be onto something there.

 

[Manonthestreet]

how flimsy is your car if that rips an axle off

 

[OKTexas]

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