Mark Gregory Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 (edited) Up here in Canada they are toying with the idea to shoot a sticky GPS dart from the grill of a Police car . On to the back of the Felon speeding car . Then call off the high speed chase and follow the Dart with GPS so another Police car can follow it . Then I assume arrest the felon ? ? http://www.citynews.ca/2017/05/19/opp-to-fire-gps-darts-at-fleeing-vehicles-to-avoid-high-speed-chases/ Edited May 20, 2017 by Mark Gregory (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_padavano Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 More "big brother". Why waste time with the darts? Just tap into the car's on-board GPS data wirelessly. Heck, the coming "connected vehicles" will make this easy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Dumb idea since so easy to circumvent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 (edited) My honey had this idea about 6 years ago. Now, some police officers have a dart/dye gun like a paintball gun and they shoot the car making it a very easy vehicle to follow or find. Edited May 20, 2017 by keiser31 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Tierney Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 I've read comments that m'f'r's track warranty vehicles 24/7 ti determine if warranty claims result of abusive operating... And same for rental outfits to determine rental operated within normal guidelines.... Same for insurance companies ...don't know if any or all of this is correct or just conspiracy theory stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntzNSam Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 With apologies to George Carlin, the GPS darts seem kinda baseball. Now this is football! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capngrog Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Wow, that was impressive! Even though this device might prove to be impractical (who knows?) it is, in my opinion, pure genius! Cheers, Grog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curti Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 So what is the reason why law enforcement is not using this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFranklin Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Millions in NEW taxes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlier Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Have to wonder how well the Grappler works when the chase is 80-100+ mph on a crowded road/highway? Also have to wonder if higher speeds create a greater risk of the vehicle flipping and/or hitting other vehicles on the road? Strictly from a risk point of view to others on the road the Dart seems to pose much less of a danger to the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MochetVelo Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Not sure if you could go 80-100mph on a "crowded" highway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercer09 Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 looks like overkill to me and yes............... more tax dollars. what ever happened to Clints 357 magnum? will get the job done every time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlier Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 3 hours ago, MochetVelo said: Not sure if you could go 80-100mph on a "crowded" highway. I guess my point is that the Grappler videos showed almost all one "criminal" vehicle and one "police" vehicle examples on a closed course except for the final part where there were two other vehicles one on either side of the "criminal" vehicle. Interesting to note that youtube seems to only have demo videos of the product and no videos of real world use by police of this device. I guess this is a new product? Come visit where I live in Eastern PA. We have one 4 lane divided highway that is posted at 55 mph. According to local police the "average" speed is 75-80 mph. A few years ago over a 4 day period they ticketed 200 vehicles. A few of those vehicles were clocked at 110 mph. One person was even ticketed TWICE during the 4 day period. I guess he did not learn the first time. FYI this road carries 50,000+ vehicles per day and can get "crowded" with vehicles traveling 75-80 during morning & evening rush hour with very little buffer space between them (ie Nascar Racing) Sadly this is just one example of more than a few roads in this area. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MochetVelo Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Around here, you're lucky to go 45mph at rush hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFranklin Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Everytime there is a ballot vote to raise taxes for law enforcement I think of how much they could earn if they fined every road lawbreaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BillP Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 21 hours ago, mercer09 said: looks like overkill to me and yes............... more tax dollars. what ever happened to Clints 357 magnum? will get the job done every time! Pedantry has no boundaries. Clint, as Harry Callahan, carried a Smith & Wesson Model 29, chambered in .44 Magnum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Mistaken identity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercer09 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 thx for the update Bill.............. wonder why the myth goes on about a 357? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BillP Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 I dunno, 357 is a famous round, predates the .44. One of the neighbor kids, a couple of years older than me was once bragging about the .357. He said it was so stupendously powerful that it would "blow the hood off a car". Being of a mechanical bent, I pondered that scenario for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin j Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 a device I have been looking at works much better. you pull in behind the car and shoot it with a reverse magnetic field which takes out all computer chips. The vehicle will just coast to the side of the road. This device is inexpensive and proven to work. I want one for the slow idiots that sit in the left lane on the highway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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