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Friends of Top Gear, we need your help.
We've just been pointed in the direction of this hilarious YouTube video, which purports to demonstrate a piece of Finnish police technology dreamed up in the mid-1990s, and we want to know whether it's real... or a big massive spoof.
Spiked harpoons? Grapple hooks? Tear gas? It does all sound a bit... terrifying and incredibly dangerous, doesn't it?
Then again, the Finns are renowned for a somewhat cavalier attitude towards road safety. And, say, the welfare of the lower abdomens of potential car thieves. Or pedestrians.
Despite our best efforts to contact the Finnish authorities, we can't find out whether this was genuinely proposed as an addition to the Scandinavian police armoury. Anyone with further information should contact, er, us using those comment boxes below.
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PetrolheadViper commented on this article
at 10:38 am on 28 October 2009
Top Gear have told me to write on the comment box. Ima thwart them and not write. hehehehe...oh wait. Anyway harpoon gun would be so cool. Wish the health and safety nuts would allow them in England :(
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hondansx commented on this article
at 10:47 am on 28 October 2009
Looks like somthing out of Mad Max
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siddarz commented on this article
at 12:04 pm on 28 October 2009
I remember this footage on a 90s "Police Stop Action Camera Smile You're Nicked" type show... If it's a spoof, it's an old one...
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Nefer commented on this article
at 01:31 pm on 28 October 2009
Anyone who steals another person's car should lose all human rights... so bring out the harpoon I say! Maybe the thieves would think twice if this were brought in!? Probably not though, they're too thick.
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cmac890 commented on this article
at 02:32 pm on 28 October 2009
This is rediculous, but it's real. I found an AP report from the summer of 1996 that was republished in newspapers here in the US. This is one copy: http://www.digest.net/bmw/archive/v5/msg02682.html
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