Impressive. I would have thought it would hold long enough to do some serious damage to the minivan, but I guess their understanding of Physics is better than mine.
In any case, a truck would have been able to pull it out if the van wasn’t sufficient.
As to defense, the key is getting it integrated into the slab, since, as the video shows, it could have been located 50 feet from the door, but nothing at grade level would have stopped it from coming out once the strap tightened up. But if you had it bolted to a 1/2” metal plate under 12” of concrete (1 square yard wide), and assuming that the ATM structure was strong enough, he would have left the back end of the van (or pretty much any truck) at he gas station during his (attempted) getaway. Now that would been a fun report to watch.
As to the guy’s knee, he’s really lucky he made it out of there...and he’ll find it will simply get worse and worse over the days.
“But if you had it bolted to a 1/2” metal plate under 12” of concrete..”
Our gun safe is attached to the concrete slab with four 1/2 inch threaded rods set with chemical anchors. Good luck getting that thing out.
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