New York to Battle Gangsters with Armored Motorbikes and Shot Guns (Nov, 1931)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1931
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1931
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New York to Battle Gangsters with Armored Motorbikes and Shot Guns
NEW YORK’S most dramatic gesture in its recent declaration of war-to-the-last-ditch on gangsters is the adoption by the police force of the armored motorbike and the sawed-off repeating shotgun. Squadrons of these war-like motorbikes will patrol the streets to strike terror into the hearts of the criminals who have turned New York into a veritable No-man’s land, raking the streets with submachine gun fire and cutting down everybody who happens to get in the way.
To expedite the capture of gangsters, New York police officials are planning to equip all squad- cars and motorbikes with shortwave sending and receiving sets.
But as we all know, that battle was won by CPA with (as far as I know) un-armored adding machines.
Comment by Stannous — September 19, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Just think what they could have done with Armored calculators!
Comment by Githyanki — September 20, 2007 @ 4:15 am
Yeah, it sure is nice that NYC is gangster-free!
Comment by Village Idiot — October 3, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
Well its a cool idea, BUT IT DIDNT WORK
Comment by brad — September 27, 2008 @ 4:08 pm