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Old 15th Dec 2012, 21:41
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DuncanMac
 
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"You could, of course, have one of the drop tanks hit the car, which then blows up. In the movies, around 98% of cars blow up - the audience expects it. In reality, according to a California policeman I used to know, about 2% of cars actually blow up in crashes."

Again thanks - I understand the predicament.

I know from my background that Met Police ammo fired into a cars fuel tank has no effect. Fired at a tyre, you've got more chance it'll come back and hit you (and has done in the past). The Home Office are scared you'll shoot an armed blagger during a robbery and it'll go through them and hit others standing at a bus stop. Hence Steven Waldorf surviving five shots to the body in about 1983.

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