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#131014 - 04/24/08 07:23 PM Flying Prepared...
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Now somebody was prepared...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352480,00.html

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#131027 - 04/24/08 09:40 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: MoBOB]
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Ya gotta love it!!!
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#131036 - 04/25/08 12:37 AM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Thats why it pays to be prepared at ALL times.
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#131131 - 04/25/08 11:02 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: EHCRain10]
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But, since as I understand it, LEO's transporting prisoners, even violent felony prisoners, must remove the handcuffs while in-flight, the passengers who taped the BG to the chair will probably be prosecuted...
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#131155 - 04/26/08 03:15 AM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Violent felony prisoners usually get to ride on a special charter flight with ConAir. But yes, escorted prisoners (low risk) have to be "unrestrained" for safety/evacuation reasons. Besides, tape tears easily enough. Not so for handcuffs.


Edited by MoBOB (04/26/08 03:17 AM)
Edit Reason: Extra thoughts
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#131170 - 04/26/08 01:18 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: MoBOB]
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"...tape tears easily enough. Not so for handcuffs..."

Very true. And never trust "flexcuffs" (large zip ties), I have had more than one bad experience with those things...
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#131350 - 04/28/08 01:03 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Quote:
And never trust "flexcuffs" (large zip ties), I have had more than one bad experience with those things...


Some details, please? How did they fail?

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#131356 - 04/28/08 03:17 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: Blast]
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Had a guy hooked up with metal handcuffs, he started kicking, so I flexed his feet together (two flexcuffs, interlinked and snugged up around his ankles), got distracted for a second, next think I knew I got kicked in the side of the head. He had managed to bend the little metal blade back the wrong way and was free.

You want to hear scary, I have seen guys, smallish guys, who were on PCP break the chain on a pair of Peerless steel handcuffs, with the cuffs applied behind the back. Then things can get out of control very rapidly...
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#131360 - 04/28/08 04:42 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Thanks for the info. It's good to know what works and what doesn't.

Oh course, knowing how to get out of those flixicuffs might be handy some day... whistle

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I have seen guys, smallish guys, who were on PCP break the chain on a pair of Peerless steel handcuffs, with the cuffs applied behind the back.


Ye gads!! How badly did he tear up his wrists doing that? I would have thought flesh/bone would give before steel...

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#131364 - 04/28/08 06:06 PM Re: Flying Prepared... [Re: ]
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I bet OBG went to the hinge-types after that!

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