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    Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars

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    Image of CopterBob CopterBob
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    As the armored Smart car fled, the assailant managed to get off 6 rounds...from his muzzle loader.
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    09/11/09

    @CopterBob: You're late, but that's f'n great!
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    Image of GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    This reminds me of the 2004 movie "Man on Fire". All IMDB has to say about it is, "In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect". There are plenty of scenes with armored cars and 3rd-world american beater iron, and the overriding sense I got from this movie was "holy frijole, I'd always heard Mexico City could be rough but this is post-apocalyptic insanity!"

    So toward the end of the credits there's a blurb, something to the effect of (it's been 5 years so I paraphrase) "The producers wish to thank Mexico City and its citizens, for being wonderful, magical place".

    To this day I'm not sure if that was intended sarcasm or irony.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars

    Now even slower than...
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    09/11/09


    ...the C64. And marginally less useful.

    I wonder what the Amiga would be in this analogy? I'd say a Benz A/B-class, but that would be an insult to the Amiga.
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    Image of GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls
    09/11/09

    @FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway: Hey, don't be knockin' the grand ol Commodore. Chances are, at least half the geeks that made the intarwebs run got their start on a C64.
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    Image of Buickboy92 Buickboy92
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    This scares the hell out of me as I have to go to Brazil next year. But I guess it's just another reason to convince my Dad to buy an armored car.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/11/09

    @Buickboy92: Nice to have a loaded dad.....;P
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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    I humbly submit a joke for the Planeopniks out there:
    How do you know you're driving an armored Smart?
    You get a bird strike from behind.
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    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    09/11/09

    @Tiberiuswise: If I could promote your comment, I would.
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    Image of GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls
    09/11/09

    @maximum-sienna: Consider it done.
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    Image of atlasfugged atlasfugged
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    Doesn't all that the extra weight defeat the purpose of the Smart - namely its fuel economy?
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    09/11/09

    @atlasfugged: On the other hand, the armor cladding helps prevent door dings when you park it like an urban asshat.
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    09/11/09

    @atlasfugged: Nope it doesn't. It still is the eco car or the armored car legion.
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    Image of Jhonka Jhonka
    09/11/09

    @atlasfugged: that weight will deter hooligans from tipping them into rivers
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    I was in Brazil once, first in San Paulo, which didn’t seem so bad, then to Rio deJanero, which was very different from anything I had ever seen. I was told before I went to Brazil to watch for pickpockets, so I emptied my wallet and put required essentials in my front pockets, but for some reason, I put my empty wallet in my back pocket. I walked out of the hotel and was strolling down the street when a woman ran head long into me. I told her was very sorry and went on my way. After about ½ a minute or so of walking, I realized something wasn’t right about the encounter and felt for my wallet. It was gone. I went back where she ran into me and found my wallet open on a concrete bench with the few scraps of paper that had been left, pulled out. She was no where to be seen. The interesting thing is there were people sitting around a starring at me as I picked up the wallet. I imagine several of them saw the whole thing, and didn’t do anything.

    Someone later told me that many times pickpockets have an accomplice that follows along slowly in a car in which they can jump into after the crime, and that many times this "accomplice" is a pimp like person, so she may have gotten in trouble for not getting anything. Also, I was an easy mark with my cowboy boots, boot-cut slacks, Wrangler shirt and belt.
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    09/11/09

    @Flathead Smith: "I was an easy mark with my cowboy boots, boot-cut slacks, Wrangler shirt and belt."

    Really? Would've thought you blended right in..
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    09/11/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: on the Pampas, probably.
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    Image of jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware jbownsabmw- Koopas Beware
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    Unfortunately, the slug is about the size of the Smart and carries enough energy to knock it off course and into a pole.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    A buddy of mine installs car stereos for a living. I was over at his shop a few years ago and there was this black Land Rover that looked "off" I couldn't put my finger on what it was but something seemed out of proportion.

    So I asked my buddy about it, he took me over and said "Here get in:" So I pulled the door open and it weighed a frigging TON , look on the edge of the door and it had 2 steel deadbolts (top and bottom of the doorjamb) to keep it shut, the windows were 2" thick and didn't roll down. I said "Holy shit, who does this car belong to!?" and he said "You don't want to know, I just have it for the day to install a DVD player" He then showed me around the outside exterior and said "Hit a body panel" So I knocked on a fender and it resounded with a dull thick, rock hard "thud". Wow. Upon closer examination not a single panel was stock, the only thing stock was the head lamps, tail lamps, grill door handles and some badgeing. I peeked underneath and the entire bottom was flush with steel panels.

    As we walked away I said "You know what, your right, I don't really want to know who owns that thing"
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    Well, it's true, we have the largest armored car fleet of the world at 85k and growing at about 6k a year. But as I said before, this is more a result of media induced fear than real need for those cars. In the sea of econoboxes, a Range Rover never goes unnoticed. Although I do have the gangster tinted windows, that's about it. We never had any armored car, and never thought we needed to.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/11/09

    @Syrax: You drive a Range Rover with tinted windows? In Brazil? Pimp!
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    Image of muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper muhnkee_2 - Avantime Owner and 100% Jaloper
    09/11/09

    @Syrax:
    agreed, we went for a 2 year old honda civic with heavy tinting and had no trouble, a friend with a fully armoured tourag had no end of trouble, from both villans and the police!
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    "Mr. Passos, who also drives an armored car, says safety wasn't his only concern. "My greatest fear is to see disappointment on my daughter's face," he says."

    My greatest fear would be to see my daughter dead.
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    09/11/09

    @Flathead Smith: Driving an already slow car that is then armored would kill anyone's soul.
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    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    Is a Smart car actually bigger than a .44 slug?
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    09/11/09

    In reply to Brazil's Astounding Crime Rate Raises Demand For Armored Cars
    It can stop a .44 slug

    But can't outrun a regular slug.
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    Image of AustinMiniMan AustinMiniMan
    09/11/09

    @Ash78: Zing.
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    04/14/09

    In reply to Fast And The Furious 5 Confirmed, Going To Brazil
    I'm not much of a Hollywood fan but I am a sucker for a good action flick.


    However let this be a warning to Vin and his co-horts, if I see another FATF flick with a 10 second 1/4 mile sequence that takes 3 minutes I will kill a puppy!

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    Image of wimbles - Mad as hell about Pontiac's demise wimbles - Mad as hell about Pontiac's demise
    04/14/09

    In reply to Fast And The Furious 5 Confirmed, Going To Brazil
    If I'm in the mood for car action, I don't even consider one of the FnF flicks.


    I pop in The Gumball Rally, Gone in 60 Seconds (the 1974 one), The Cannonball Run or queue up one of the chase scenes from Ronin.

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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    04/14/09

    @wimbles: Heart click for both of you. I have all flicks that wimbles mentions in my top 10 car flick list, but I'd also like to add Mad Max.


    Mad Max is not only my No 1 for car movies but my No 1 fav movie of all time. When I was a kid, my mother had a Falcon Hardtop like the black interceptor and my mates and I use to play in the car and pretend we were in the movie.


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