Talk:Spike strip
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[edit]last article and link perhaps some kind of advertisement?
- Please remember to sign your entries with four tildes(~). As far as the Stinger, I don't think its an advertisement, as there are several types of spike strips, but the brand name "Stinger" is most known to the public via television and ad campaigns. 68.254.188.148 20:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Could use some information on when and where were first implemented. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.100.170 (talk) 20:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Police Officer Death Statistics
[edit]The article states (from an uncited source) that "as many as 20 or more" police officers have died deploying the devices, which would seem a particularly unhelpful means of numbering as it could concieveably be any number! Does anyone know where the figures came from? Jellyfish dave (talk) 17:15, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Earliest use
[edit]The Illustrated London Times 1 Sept 1928 shows "a new trap for motor-car bandits: spiked 'mats' across the road for puncturing tires". Marshape (talk) 12:23, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Two topics
[edit]There are two very different things being discussed here - most of the article is about the kind of spikes used by police to stop a getaway car, but it also mentions the fixed one-directional spikes that are used to enforce one-way traffic at toll barriers etc. (also known as alligator teeth or crocodile teeth). I'd suggest splitting this into two pages. Rioja Posset (talk) 14:20, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
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