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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ... by perl4ever on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:10PM (#27350371)
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...

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Re:Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, ... by ravel-bar-foo on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:10AM (#27350657)
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.

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