[KittenClaws]

I have a question. It's something I've wondered about people being pulled from their vehicles - especially Rodney King (wasn't he in a Semi?)

If I am in my car, sometimes a Jeep Cherokee, sometimes an old Camero,and I encounter a mob, can the mob prevent me from running them down?

Seriously. What prevents the mob from getting creamed? My sense of human worth? It seems to me that Rodnely King could have ran them down.

If it were my life, I'd absolutely run a mob over. Or can a mob be so huge, that even a car is useless?

[Radagast the Fool]

It was Reginald Denny who was pulled out of his truck and severely beaten during the Rodney King riots.

I was in LA then-and I remember how the limousine liberals were trying to buy guns to protect themselves-and the fools were incensed that there was a two-week waiting period to buy a gun-even though they were the ones who insisted on gun-buying waiting periods.

[familyop]

"If I am in my car, sometimes a Jeep Cherokee, sometimes an old Camero,and I encounter a mob, can the mob prevent me from running them down?"

Theoretically speaking, a Camaro with stock height suspension wouldn't go very far over bodies in the mob. Camaros generally ride low. The wheels would soon be raised off of the ground and unable to get any traction. Then...well, you know.

Same for the Jeep Cherokee. It would do better than the Camaro but unable to get traction, after bodies were stuffed about four high or so under it.

But you might give that Cherokee a suspension lift job with over-sized tires and maybe a stroker job on the engine (for more low-end power)! Then, with over-sized off-road tires and sufficient revs in four, low (gear, assuming it's a four-wheel-drive), it could go over quite a pile of bodies!

Interesting physics problem, eh?

[More than a little silly irony and sardonic humor there.]

[PLMerite]

Roll ‘em up, lock ‘em, and floor it!

[going hot]

You might lose some traction if you got one under the wheel, but overall, you have weight on your side. You just need more speed to move right on through and out the other side. Make sure your windshield wiper fluid is full.

Oh, and use low gear, and dont let up on the gas.