Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ...
by DangitBobby on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:50PM
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Well, if you had reason to believe that the police placed a bomb then it makes sense to me that you might not trust whoever you get on the other end of the line when trying to contact a bomb squad.
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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ...
by Google234 on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:43PM
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If you believe that the place placed a bomb on your car in the Us then you probably belong in a psychiatric hospital.
Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ...
by perl4ever on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:10PM
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It was in the news five years ago when the Dallas police (in the US) used C4 to blow up a suspect in a parking garage. It seemed to startle people then, mainly because they repurposed a normally bomb-defusing robot to do it.
In fairness, while it was in a garage, it was not on a car.
"We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was," Dallas Police Chief David Brown told a news conference Friday. "Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger. The suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/08/485262777...
Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ...
by ravel-bar-foo on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:10AM
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While the use of a bomb in that case soubds like an affront to justice, I would think the police had probably cordoned off the area such that no untargeted bystander would find the bomb by accident.
To me it would only be reasonable to suspect a bomb on one's car if one did not know that the police placed it there.
Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ...
by wearywanderer on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:51PM
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Not if you have actually seen the device and it looks like a goddamn pipe bomb, as at least some of these tracking devices do. But if your response is anything other than running, I think you belong in a psychiatric hospital. Normal people run like hell when they think they've found a bomb.