Talk:Wire catcher

Wire cutters were never intended to remove barbed wire. That would be silly. Barbed wire would never be that high up on a road anyway... The idea was to sever a variety of road-based booby-trap on roads, first employed by retreating German soldiers during WWII. They would string wire between trees or poles, whatever was around, roughly at neck-level, decapitating drivers moving at high speeds (and I guess the front passengers, too: the more the merrier). The same kind of trap is still used today in, um... warzones. It's also common to do so in the middle of urban sprawls, between skyscrapers as an anti-helo countermeasure, albeit an obviously primitive one, the idea being to snarl the rotor and force a crash. This was actually replicated in that Nolan, Batman flick: the Dark Knight, but it's a very real trick, and a nasty one, at that, in terms of expense-returns. 30-Million dollar aircraft versus, like, a single grand's worth of lousy cabling? Amazing. Okay, I'm going to bed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.81.76.226 (talk) 10:06, 28 December 2012 (UTC)