[10:30:PM] *** SecureIM session established with Josh Nolan.
[10:30:PM] Josh Nolan: Hyo!
[10:30:PM] James A: lo
[10:32:PM] Josh Nolan: How goes it?
[10:32:PM] James A: not too bad - yourself?
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: Not bad at all - we actually pulled over a stolen car tonight!
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: There were people driving it!
[10:33:PM] James A: you did?
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: You know how rarely that happens?
[10:33:PM] James A: what - normally the stolen cars keep driving?
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: Not *me*, personally, but I did the checks for the car that did, so I feel vaguely responsible.
[10:34:PM] James A: huzzah
[10:34:PM] Josh Nolan: Well, it's more that stolen cars usually turn up somewhere with the thieves long gone. *shrug* Not enough police on the road.
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: Stolen cars that get intercepted usually don't stop, true, so they often either don't get caught or wind up running into something or otherwise crashing.
[10:35:PM] James A: that's why we need apaches in the police service
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: Heheheh.
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: It'd be hell on the vehicles, though.
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: And I doubt you could ever quite get rid of the blood...
[10:36:PM] James A: with sidewinders - there's not enough of the car left to worry bout the blood stains :)
[10:36:PM] Josh Nolan: Fair enough.
[10:37:PM] Josh Nolan: Though the 'hell on vehicles' comment stands. :)
[10:37:PM] James A: hey - it'll teach ppl to stop stealing cars tho
[10:37:PM] Josh Nolan: Maybe so, but it isn't always easy to find said cars.
[10:38:PM] Josh Nolan: It happens in may be 5% of located stolens that I've handled that the owner only knows the car's gone when we ask them about it.
[10:39:PM] James A: pretty scary
[10:39:PM] Josh Nolan: Yah.
[10:39:PM] Josh Nolan: So Apaches wouldn't pick up nearly as many as it might be nice to think.
[10:40:PM] Josh Nolan: I'd say only 5% of stolen vehicles get seen driving by police. Or noticed, at any rate.
[10:41:PM] James A: that's why they've all got dna-encoded transponders - if the driver isn't dna-registered with the car - a transponder is triggered - alertting the apaches to an unauthorised use of a motor vehicle - the offender then is warned of the transgression and has 5 seconds to comply otherwise the 'chopper goes ED-209 on their arse
[10:42:PM] Josh Nolan: So what if it's a mate borrowing a mate's car?
[10:42:PM] James A: then they'd better remember ot authorise the use of that vehicle or they'll be ex-mates pretty quickly...
[10:43:PM] Josh Nolan: Hm...
[10:43:PM] Josh Nolan: Me, I'd give 'em a minute to comply.
[10:43:PM] Josh Nolan: Sometimes it ain't safe to pull over. Ideally, we want the vehicle intact.
[10:44:PM] James A: nah - 5 seconds is more dramatic for the real-live tv camera's that are showing this live on pay-tv - how else do we afford the infrastructure.
[10:44:PM] Josh Nolan: Aaaaah.
[10:44:PM] Josh Nolan: Forgot about that.
[10:45:PM] Josh Nolan: Disregard, then. :)
[10:45:PM] James A: this is why you should vote for me - I have all the answers and provide hours of entertainment :)
[10:46:PM] Josh Nolan: And even if they're not *good* answers, they're still answers, dammit!
[10:46:PM] James A: "entertaining answers" - and that's really all the public wants
[10:46:PM] Josh Nolan: I guess so.
