Scenario:
Two cars -- one good, one bad -- are driving on a desolate highway in a 1980's TV action-drama. The trailing car pulls up next to the other vehicle and attempts to ram it off the road. This strategy is never successful the first time, so it is repeated multiple times until one of the cars is forced from the road, always going airborne and landing upside down.
In the history of real life, has anyone ever performed this maneuver? Have police officers ever stopped fleeing bank robbers like this? Has a real world gangster ever used this tactic to prevent a witness from testifying in court?
In every situation, at least one of the parties involved has a gun. But instead of shooting at the other car, they continue to bump back and forth. I always wondered why the driver of the car being attacked didn't just slam on the brakes and let the other car sweep by, like my buddy Street Hawk does in this clip:
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Classic 80's Scene
Stumble it!
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That was a dandy Caprice wagon they were trashing there. Street Hawk like rules and stuff.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the famous scene in "Footloose" where Kevin Bacon and some farmer boy dork play chicken with tractors.
Hehehehe
Reminds me of The A-Team, who fired off about a zillion rounds of ammo during every episode, but no one every got hit.
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