Chinese forces prepare to use 'giant fork' on Hong Kong protesters

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terrifying-giant-fork-chinese-forces-18947059?bustcache=1565964839768

by onewhonknocks • 7 years ago

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azurezyq2• 7 years ago

Politics aside. While seeming scary, this kind of device is actually widely deployed in China, especially in schools. It proves to be very effective for police use:

1. Dull tipped, won't penetrate bodies. 2. While in use, no direct body contact between you and the other. 3. Effective, since human doesn't really have much strength in the chest / stomach area.

I don't think Mirror chose a good picture for the use, this one's probably better: http://news.china.com.cn/txt/2010-04/30/content_19937607.htm

Honestly better than guns and more effective than shields.

type-2• 7 years ago

Maybe a tool like two sticks that can pin down rioters in the neck hold them there would be more effective.

jhart99• 7 years ago

They have these everywhere. I've seen them in malls, subways even hospitals. They work because the biggest weapon commonly available are knives and those are limited in size. I'm not sure what the biggest size you can get is but it is somewhere around 18 inch kitchen knives.

rayiner8• 7 years ago

And that’s why people need guns. It’s easy to dismiss people getting pushed aside with forks as not a big deal. It’s easy for the police to keep ranks. It’s easy for people in other countries to ignore it. But if the people can start a shooting war, even they can’t win it, that changes the situation completely.

noident• 7 years ago

People pinned down by these things could have their heads slammed against pavement.

SiempreViernes2• 7 years ago

The police can slam your head against the pavement just fine without tools, and in any case usually carry sticks that can achieve much the same effect.

daniel-cussen• 7 years ago

Potentially. I really don't see that being conducive from the forks. It would still involve more than one police, one to pin, one to slam the head into the pavement.

Wowfunhappy2• 7 years ago

Do those versions electrically shock people?

Edit: This was an unfounded question, see below.

azurezyq2• 7 years ago

No, they are just steel rods...no fancy stuff.

You are thinking of tesla troopers in RA2?

scarmig• 7 years ago

I wonder if these might be safer than e.g. American crowd control tools.

maximente• 7 years ago

Potential injuries include burns, puncture wounds and welts

yet

repeatedly do this without long-lasting identifiable physical traces, makes them a favoured tool of torture

if i understand this correctly it seems that the risks are either pretty low or the artifacts don't last very long.

anyway, is the mechanism similar to e.g. Taser? if so seems much ado about nothing here, American cops have been getting off on using those for decades

rolltiide• 7 years ago

I think the bigger news is that China state media actually mentioned Tianamen Square yesterday and how the response to Hong Kong won't be a repeat because they have better tools now

and this is the tool?

what a twist!

RenRav• 7 years ago

giant fork

Not a man catcher?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_catcher

hprotagonist• 7 years ago

ugh, and i was just looking up the 5e stats, too.

dirtyid• 7 years ago

sasumata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasumata

Chinese forces prepare to use 'giant fork' on Hong Kong protesters

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