Crash, then burn

[lozz]

itl be alright if its a diesel car,

fecking things take an age to warm up at times anyway,
you couid smoke 10fags and have listend to 2 albums before its time to bail out,

[teamster1975]

Ideally it needs to be double-headed - you don't want to be fussing with it as you grab it & swing it. Also there are some with slide out blades, which is something else I don't think you need to be fiddling about with when you're on fire.

You should see this bugger for double glazed windows!

[steve_earwig]

I was hoping the attached video would be a demonstration, all I learned is batons are crap (I hope they tried their effectiveness on the guy's head once they got him out the car )

[mjb]

Just wait for more electric cars to hit the roads - lithium is fun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMy2_qNO2Y0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pizFsY0yjss

The best bit is that if you have a minor accident and the car looks ok, you could possibly drive it afterwards and then set your house on fire a month later!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-1 ... afety.html

[steve_earwig]

These things just get better and better

Wasn't there a load of mobile phones recalled a couple of years back because they were doing this in people's pockets?

[Welly]

Justin Bieber made it kill itself

[mjb]

These things just get better and better

Wasn't there a load of mobile phones recalled a couple of years back because they were doing this in people's pockets?

Mobiles, laptops, anything with a Li-ion or Li-po battery is basically a potential timebomb. Lithium's a vicious metal, and of course reacts violently with water. Makes for a better battery than Nickel though...

[FarmerPug]

See the citroen c4 has laminated side windows, thats nice to know because it makes it quieter and all that, but if you need to escape isnt laminated windscreens one of the hardest things to break?

[Doggy]

These things just get better and better

Wasn't there a load of mobile phones recalled a couple of years back because they were doing this in people's pockets?

Mobiles, laptops, anything with a Li-ion or Li-po battery is basically a potential timebomb. Lithium's a vicious metal, and of course reacts violently with water. Makes for a better battery than Nickel though...

Cadmium's not exactly benign either.