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A Police Vehicle Add-On That Safely Ends Car Chases

It’s hard to believe that police chases are still a thing, but YouTube is awash in footage of people trying to outrun the cops. More than a few of these chases end in fiery crashes and, in some unfortunate instances, innocent bystanders being injured.

An Arizona-based inventor named Leonard Stock witnessed one such incident: “The conclusion of one of the chases [I saw on TV] was an innocent motorist getting t-boned and I went to sleep that night just so aggravated that this was happening,” he told a local news organization. “And I woke up at 3:00 in the morning just suddenly and this was the first thought I had.”

That first thought was the Grappler Police Bumper, which Stock both invented and is now selling:

It does look a darn sight safer than trying to perform that “pit” maneuver.