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Mopes on Mopeds
From the UK Yahoo website:
Moped crime in London has more than halved since tough measures were introduced to allow police to ram suspects from their bikes, figures reveal.
The Metropolitan Police said the number of moped crimes had fallen by 53.7% in the year since they were given the new powers.
The force said there were 20,973 moped crimes between July 2017 and June 2018, but that fell to 9,723 between July 2018 and June 2019.
Police were given powers to knock suspected criminals off their mopeds in November 2018.
Yes, even the Brits have their limit when it comes to crime, especially moped crimes. Nothing puts a stop to the nonsense like a … well, think of it as a 3,000-pound baton.
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Published in Policing
Dude, some of us read Ricochet over lunch.
Plus you can have a block party with a trailer-park luau!*
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*There is no such thing. But there should be.
Not a bad idea! But it would take more than a couple. When the development was built, there were only about 60 deer in the area. Now they estimate the herd is over 600, with no sign of slowing down.
Maybe instead of guns or bows, we could get a hundred people in junk cars to simply drive around the neighborhood at night. The automobile has proven to be an effective weapon so far . . .
Mad Max hunting should definitely be a thing.
Please don’t tempt me.
Raccoons eat chickens. They’ll also eat the vegetable garden.
You’re going to have to do better than deep-fried innertube.
They are g-ddamnivores.
Just unleash some wolves into the neighborhood.
Ah, the inner-city solution.
Way back when…used to enjoy a good demolition derby.
Wolves have better sense than to mess with raccoons. ‘Coons are vicious. And they have hands.
They meant for the deer.
Both have happened at our place. But we no longer raise chickens, and the vegetable garden has been surrounded by multiple strands of electric fence wire, which keeps out varmints like raccoons and whitetail deer.
Not mine. And it’s harder for them to hotwire cars with all the anti-theft mechanisms nowadays. But back when we raised goats, they weren’t deterred by the anti-theft mechanisms I put on the metal containers in which I kept high-protein feed for the goats.
It should be noted that this technique would be a direct violation of the vehicle pursuit policies of most US police departments.
More’s the pity.
It’s an interesting question: using a car against a moped is deadly force. Here in the U.S., if deadly force is justified—generally by the threat of serious bodily harm or death to the officer or someone else—it doesn’t matter what instrument is used. Hence this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s72ueP2K84