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Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net)
"Are you an urban police force thinking about how to control your fellow humans?" jokes Cory Doctorow. "Look no farther! Your pals at Bozena have an all-new RIOT system, a crowd-control killdozer for all your protest-suppressing needs!" He's one of several web commentators marveling at the marketing copy for a Slovakian company's new anti-riot machinery, also spotted by Slashdot reader drunkdrone. Some quotes from the BOZENA RIOT SYSTEM site about the device's features:
- Easy attachable bulldozer blade.
- The [6,600 pound] shield comes equipped with launching ports designed for use of guns or other rubber projectiles launchers.
- The trailer is capable of displacing the water/foam or its mixtures (available additives: pepper or painting substances) under the high pressure into the distance of several dozen meters.
- Communication with rioters through the loudspeakers.
- Designed to control riots in streets and urbanized areas...intended predominantly for the special military and police units responsible for the CROWD CONTROL during the violent political/social demonstrations, against football hooligans, etc.
Cory Doctorow and his site of feminazi dykes need to be nuked from orbit. They are the very opposite of freedom of speech and expression.
Why not just avoid riots? What good do the protests even do, anyhow? You just shut down a few streets, vent some anger, and make everyone who doesn't care hate you for making it impossible to get anywhere. Oh, and you can get a criminal record or possibly attacked by some crazy person, while local businesses get looted and or damaged.
Given that it's a complete waste of time and a good way for people to get hurt, anything that keeps angry idiots off the streets is a good thing in my book.