Anti car-jacking flame thrower - Magical Realist - May 27, 2015
"Car drivers in South Africa are being offered a new method of preventing hijacking.
A blaster, flame-thrower operated by a foot pedal inside the car, blasts a jet of fire at a would-be hijacker.
A person confronted by an armed hijacker simply presses a pedal and the "blaster" ignites gas that shoots from the under-side of the car.
Doctors say the device is lethal - but the police have confirmed it is perfectly legal.
Johannesburg seems to fill car drivers with fear. In the province which includes the city, there were 4,000 car hijacks between January and June this year.
People pull up at traffic lights, they stop their car and then someone comes up to the window with a gun and tells them to get out.
Charles Fourie, who invented the blaster, says drivers should put their hands up and then step on the gas.
"This is a case of opting for the lesser of two evils," Mr Fourie said.
"Either you get shot, your wife is raped, your child is murdered - against him getting burned."
Police say they cannot see any legal problems with the blaster - so long as the right people are blasted.
But Dr Kenneth Boffard, a surgeon who runs a trauma unit, said he is extremely concerned.
"I don't think the average person on the street has any concept of the appalling damage that burns cause," Dr Boffard said.
"The result of that is permanent, extensive and disfiguring."
"Innocent people are going to get caught.
" That's unacceptable."
RE: Anti car-jacking flame thrower - Yazata - Jun 4, 2015
You need one of those for your new SUV, MR!
(I guess that Portland isn't quite as bad as Johannesburg in the carjacking department.)
The picture looks like something the Mythbusters might have made.
RE: Anti car-jacking flame thrower - Magical Realist - Jun 4, 2015
(Jun 4, 2015 01:20 AM)Yazata Wrote: You need one of those for your new SUV, MR!
(I guess that Portland isn't quite as bad as Johannesburg in the carjacking department.)
The picture looks like something the Mythbusters might have made.
I'm planning a roadtrip to the SkinWalker Ranch in Utah. I'll need dual flamethrowers for those pesky aliens..lol!
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