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Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the machines-for-mobs dept.

"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.

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  1. Worst of all. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if living in a police state wasn't enough... From the picture and video tabs:

    "You need to upgrade your Macromedia Flash Player! Get Macromedia Flash"

    1. Re:Worst of all. by religionofpeas · · Score: 5, Funny

      What are you going to do ? Protest ?

  2. Re:maidanist recipe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    P.S. Additional tip: when you can foresee that the protest you attend is going to be pushed back with such devices, always bring a battery powered perforator drill and steel pipe of sufficient quantity.

    Then feel free to drill into pavement as deep as needed, and install posts which prevent a large vehicle from squeezing forward.

    If you however have a welder nearby, you can design cheap and sturdy anti-vehicle obstacles which don't need deep drilling at all.

    Also, consider putting a leash on the police vehicle with steel cables... I dunno... maybe to lamp posts or some such fixed infrastructure.

  3. Bulldozer blade? by tacarat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't see anywhere to scoop up rioters to take to the factory. Soylent Green won't make itself!

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    "Common sense will be the death of us all"
  4. Re: maidanist recipe by slick7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All the better for Soylent Green processing.

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    The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.