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DiyDave 
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 Topic: What in the Alabama Betty Crocker...?
Posted: 07 Feb 2025 at 8:03pm |
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:41am |
20 cop cars, and not a single one knows how to stop a diesel skid steer. Shoot at the tracks with a shotgun? geez.
They just need a teenager with a potato...
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Gary
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Posted: 08 Feb 2025 at 7:51am |
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Throwing a big chain in the Tracks would probably slow it down.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 08 Feb 2025 at 7:54am |
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A good hydraulic leak would stop him in 60 seconds..
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ekjdm14
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Posted: 08 Feb 2025 at 8:00am |
 steve(ill) wrote:
A good hydraulic leak would stop him in 60 seconds.. |
Hydraulic leak to the cranium stop it even quicker.
That is shambolic though, that many cops & all they can do is wait for him to get bored/run out of fuel & hope he doesn't turn destructive? I mean, at the very least could pop a round through the rad & wait 15min for it to lock up.
Edited by ekjdm14 - 08 Feb 2025 at 8:01am
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Clay
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Posted: 08 Feb 2025 at 8:21am |
They should have used a helicopter with a giant electromagnet. Worked well in the James Bond movie, "You Only Live Twice.
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DaveKamp
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Posted: 08 Feb 2025 at 10:04pm |
ekjdm14 wrote:
Hydraulic leak to the cranium stop it even quicker. |
That would cause the operator to slump onto the controls, causing just the opposite... albeit, at a slightly more predictable path and velocity... while at the same time cause a considerable loss of public trust in their peacekeeping public services.
Nothing in the video demonstrates anything worthy of capital punishment... it more likely resembles a case of 'drunken and disorderly'.
Consider this- The most dangerous threat to a tank, is a pair of infantryman on foot... One to present small arms fire upon the commander, which will force him below the hatch, to close up. This makes the driver practically blind. The second infantryman then approaches in close to disable the tank.
The skid-steer shares a considerable blind spot, and a generally approachable speed. Jamming a potato into the exhaust will shut it down in about 4 seconds, at which case, there's no damage to machine or operator, just a surprised, but disabled drunk.
The fact that it took more than two policemen proves that they 1) cannot think on their feet... and 2) aren't properly equipped with a potato.
Edited by DaveKamp - 08 Feb 2025 at 10:06pm
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DiyDave
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025 at 4:45am |
Yes it would work, but what cop wants the nickname of "tater" for the rest of his career? 
Edited by DiyDave - 09 Feb 2025 at 4:54am
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025 at 5:01am |
DaveKamp wrote:
ekjdm14 wrote:
Hydraulic leak to the cranium stop it even quicker. |
That would cause the operator to slump onto the controls, causing just the opposite... albeit, at a slightly more predictable path and velocity... while at the same time cause a considerable loss of public trust in their peacekeeping public services.
Nothing in the video demonstrates anything worthy of capital punishment... it more likely resembles a case of 'drunken and disorderly'.
Consider this- The most dangerous threat to a tank, is a pair of infantryman on foot... One to present small arms fire upon the commander, which will force him below the hatch, to close up. This makes the driver practically blind. The second infantryman then approaches in close to disable the tank.
The skid-steer shares a considerable blind spot, and a generally approachable speed. Jamming a potato into the exhaust will shut it down in about 4 seconds, at which case, there's no damage to machine or operator, just a surprised, but disabled drunk.
The fact that it took more than two policemen proves that they 1) cannot think on their feet... and 2) aren't properly equipped with a potato.
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My suggestion was "tongue in cheek", but it's brought up some good points. My thoughts were that it was stolen but probably very likely operator was sozzled no matter how they got the key. On the point of the cops not being properly equipped, I think it was more the former (not thinking on the fly) as I'm sure they had access to a good few fire extinguishers, good blast of CO2 to the intake would shut it down at least long enough for another officer to take control of the operator. (and if they only carried powder extinguishers, even better just need a good clean & new air filters)
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025 at 6:13am |
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Considering they probably hadn't had a lot of training on dealing with a tracked vehicle I think they were doing okay: Surround the operator with other vehicles, herd him of the freeway onto the ramp where they can corral him. Get the freeway open so the traffic can move soon. You don't see what happens after that. If it doesn't have plexiglass shields maybe call fire dept for mutual aid brush truck; spray operator down with fire hose--wet and can't see safely takes all the fun out the plan without getting close to the skidsteer orinjuring anyone. Accomplish all that while some pinhead is taking video with his phone or news crew is droning overhead footage to TV and your being heckled by a bunch of people saying "do something" who wouldn't know what to do either....
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sparky
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025 at 7:19am |
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How about Tater Tot?
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025 at 7:42am |
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They’ll just have to keep chasing and hope he runs out of DEF, or gets a fault code that shuts it down!! 😂
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