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   Poison gas?

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Mar 29th, 2004 @ 6:21am

   
   

   Is it too much to ask that it be legal to have the equipment flood the interior of the vehicle with a poison gas after locking the doors?
   
   Or is that still illegal?

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   Re: Poison gas?

   

   prarie dog, Mar 29th, 2004 @ 7:17am

   
   

   The police have been running this program in the Vancouver area for a year now, and its very succesful.
   
   Poison gas how about an electric chair,it fries you when you grab the wheel and step on the gas.

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   Permanent4, Mar 29th, 2004 @ 9:28am

   
   

   IANAL, and I recognize a good deterrent when I see one, but isn't this a form of entrapment?
   

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   Re: No Subject Given

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 29th, 2004 @ 9:41am

   
   

   Leaving a car to be stolen? I don't think so. Wouldn't the police officers have to point out the stolen car and say "that looks like a good car to steal, why don't you steal it?" or something like that for it to be entrapment? If they just leave a bait car out and let the person steal it, I don't see how it's entrapment... but like you, IANAL.

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   Entrapment

   

   Charles W., Mar 29th, 2004 @ 10:51am

   
   

   IANAL either, but from what I understand entrapment requires the officer to do something to convence you to do the action. Example would be using an unmarked cop car to try to get people to race em, and when they start speeding pull em over, and give them a ticket. Leaving a parked car in a parking lot wouldn't count.
   
   -Charles W.

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   How About...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 29th, 2004 @ 11:14pm

   
   

   How about leaving a $20 bill on the sidewalk and arresting whoever picks it up?

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   Re: How About...

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 29th, 2004 @ 11:28pm

   
   

   Picking up $20 that someone dropped is not the same as breaking into a car...

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   Re: How About...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 30th, 2004 @ 10:44am

   
   

   No, technically it isn't. But then, breaking into a truck isn't exactly the same as breaking into a car either. One is a car, the other is truck. But, the principle IS the same.
   
   I remember seeing a story about one of these "stings". The police left the bait car unlocked with the keys hanging in the ignition. Seems a lot like placing money on the sidewalk to me, in principle that is.

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   Re: How About...

   

   Lou, Aug 23rd, 2004 @ 8:54am

   
   

   Paper money is not register to a person unless its in a bank. A car is your documented property. Stealing a running, open car is still stealing.

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    Excellent way to catch the bad guys...

    

    Stanley Jenson, May 14th, 2005 @ 11:18pm

    
    

    Not only an excellent way to catch, but also to put fear into their thick heads, and the thick heads of their homies, and anyone else even remotely considering stealing a car. I wonder what these thieves will do when they are so scared that they pee their pants while even walking close to or even daring to look at a car ! Check out my blog folks, it talks about auto theft and predatory towing issues. Feel free to browse through old postings. Old is sometimes gold ! :) http://towingandautotheft.blogspot.com/

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    Re: Poison gas?

    

    Stanley Jenson, May 14th, 2005 @ 11:24pm

    
    

    I always thought of equipping my car with the following: 1. Lojack 2. Security Alarm 3. Steering wheel club 4. Gas pedal locking club 5. A bulldog 6. Intentionally removing air from atleast one tire each night I leave the car parked. And then refilling air using one of those $20 pressure air pumps from walmart. 7. Intentionally removing some of the wires under the car's hood. And then rewiring each morning before starting the car to go to work. 8. Security alarm activated pepper spray. 9. Security alarm activated needles that will erect out from the driver seat ! Hitting the crook straight in his/her excretory organs ! Should be enough to make them pass out ! Anything I forgot, make sure you add ! :) Oh right, the poison gas ! How about storing bad smelling ammonia type gas that smells like coming from a horse's rear !

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