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    VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not

    The Government Doesn't Need Telcos' Help To Spy On Your Cellphones, Thank You Very Much

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    Image of PridgNYC PridgNYC
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    How would this work with front wheel drive cars which don't have exposed driveshafts?
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    02/10/09

    @PridgNYC: The tentacles are probably small enough to fit in around the gaps between the lower control arms and axle-shafts..
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    Image of EBone EBone
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    Love how they're testing this thing out back behind the warehouse, right next to the loading dock for where some sap's parked his boat and the Ethel M chocolate truck is loading up for deliveries. Hey, you guys at Plumbing Supplies Liquidators, please don't pull out of your loading bay for a few minutes, we've got a truck going 35 mph back there that may or may not crash into your dock.


    This is DHS stuff - don't you imagine them testing it at some abandoned military base of something?

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    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    And the second part they need to work on is a way of preventing the vehicle from swerving around this device..
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    Image of Brian Richards Brian Richards
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    Yeah, no way you can swerve around that or anything. They are going to have to make it so that it can cover the whole width of the road. A little disc is easily avoided.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    02/10/09

    @Brian Richards: You're right! I doubt the police would do anything like park some patrol cars with a space in between them that a person would drive through, or set this up on a road which only has one lane or is of limited width. Or even set-up one unit in each lane. Yeah, no way anyone could think of that. You should send the company an email.
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    Image of incubushead incubushead
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    According to the article this is actually called the SQUID, which aims to correct some of the problems with the VLAD system. kthxbai
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    Image of Leslie Norman Harvey V Leslie Norman Harvey V
    02/10/09

    @incubushead:


    The tentacles wrap around the axle of the car and other parts in the under carriage, so the wheels can't rotate

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    02/10/09

    @Leslie Norman Harvey V: Wow, they should really put important information like that in the article, eh?
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    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    I thought they were doing something similar with a chain like net on the ground, different than spike strips, that wrap around the wheels.
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    Image of Toshie Toshie
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    Did you hear the exclamations of success at the end? Who exactly is developing this, sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane?
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    02/10/09

    @Toshie: Well if he was it would be pointless since those dang Duke boys would just jump over it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    02/10/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate: The only thing stickier than the mess Bo and Luke were in was the tentacles Anus had set up 'round the bend.
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    02/10/09

    @FordingTheRiver_GitEmSteveDave: I see what you did there...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    Am I the only one disappointed that something called VLAD in all caps doesn't impale anything?
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    02/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Just wait until they unleash this in Japan...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    02/10/09

    @Lite: has a bacon wallet.: Never going to work. He learns to quickly:
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    02/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I'm completely with you on this. Technology called VLAD designed to stop moving vehicles on a roadway should have been mega-sized versions of tire spike strips--you know, big enough to not only blast through your tires but to continue right up into the roof of your car.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/10/09

    @bosskev: I think Spawn does that.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    God help the loli that steps on one of these things.
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    02/10/09

    @BeautifulAgony: I hear that this happens occasionally in Japan.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/10/09

    In reply to VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
    Ooooh, tentacles! Damn, I think my coffee is watered down.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/17/08

    In reply to The Government Doesn't Need Telcos' Help To Spy On Your Cellphones, Thank You Very Much
    Don't just turn off your phone, the battery may still be powering something. Be safe and put it in a metal box.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/17/08

    @The Lab:


    "Be safe and put it in a metal box."


    No pun intended?

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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    11/17/08

    In reply to The Government Doesn't Need Telcos' Help To Spy On Your Cellphones, Thank You Very Much
    I have always wanted to name my first born child triggerfish. thanks to the DoJ, I finally have a justifiable reason to back that up


    =/

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/17/08

    In reply to The Government Doesn't Need Telcos' Help To Spy On Your Cellphones, Thank You Very Much
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/17/08

    In reply to The Government Doesn't Need Telcos' Help To Spy On Your Cellphones, Thank You Very Much
    Or fake them out by putting your cell phone in your grandmas car and sending her to the mall while you knock over that bank.
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