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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Always had problems with the police overreaction to that incident...yes the guy had gone on a rampage...but all the cops had to do was get on the front slope of the tank...and pull both shots on the fire extinguishers that would dumped 20lbs of CO2 into the engine and turned off the fuel pumps as well. Once the tank hung up, by opening the left rearmost top grill door, they would have had access to the tank's steering linkage, a dozen turns with a 7/16 box would have left the guy unable to steer...then it would have been a matter of waiting him out...and in a tank in a California summer it wouldn't have been long before he gave up.
Instead, two cops pop the loaders hatch and blast the guy with a dozen 9mm...
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Uhm... I would have to agree with others. Lot of the things you mention to stop the tank, wouldn't of been known to many people outside of people who had served in the military.
As for opening the loaders hatch and blasting the guy with 9mm, yeah that was overkill.
I totally agree once he got hung up, they could simply wait him out.