[boris]

"IMO they should have made the effort to get it off him."

If events unfolded as he claimed, the bomb might have had an 'anti-tamper' device such that any attempt to remove would cause it to detonate...The cops surely would have considered this possibility.

--Boris

[Cultural Jihad]

FYI, some people will try anything to slam the rule of law or law enforcement at the slightest provocation. It's a mental or emotional aberration of some kind.

[wildbill]

I'm trying to remember the name of the movie where the plot revolves around a new kind of prison where the prisoners are paired off and have tamper-proof bombs strapped around their necks and if they flee beyond a certain distance from their partner, the remote connection is broken and the bomb goes off.

If this was done by a criminal mastermind (to be played in the movie by Dennis Hopper), he'd have used a remote detonator so when the guy didn't show up with the money...boom! No witness.