Talk:Sump buster

Not to be a jerk, but what hateful individual invented this thing? In the USA there's various tire destruction devices used in some places to prevent people from avoiding security checkpoints or pay parking lots and the like, but even those are designed to only puncture the front two tires and are subject to considerable regulation as to where and how you can employ them. For example, one would usually have to pass (slowly) through a heavily placarded serpentine path before reaching the tire poppers, thus giving honestly confused individuals plenty of chance to realize their mistake and reverse course.

From the pictures, many of these "sump busters" appear to be placed near highway on-ramps and off-ramps, areas where one would be traveling at some speed and potentially distracted by road events, especially at night. Do you seriously mean to tell me that rat-running is such a nightmarish public safety emergency in Europe that completely totaling a person's automobile (presumably with a massive fine of some sort to follow once they call for a tow-truck to pull them away) is considered a fair price to pay for such a mistake?

Damn Europe, and I thought America was draconian... Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 04:46, 22 July 2013 (UTC)