In Response to Craziness

So I recently posted a thing about the locals pinning (I wanted to say skewering, but it's not technically correct.  Far more interesting to read, but not correct.) would-be assailants with giant U-shaped forks.

Grandad went one better, and mailed me this:

So the idea is not to be anywhere near the offensive crim.  How are you going to cuff him?  Look at how close everyone is to the suspect in this picture.  It makes even less sense in a military/policing role than in a school, where people are supposed to pin the baddy and wait for reinforcements.

It turns out the chinese have been paying attention to my blog, and have fashioned their own devices.  They are remarkably similar to the Japanese devices.  So remarkably similar, in fact, that they're the same.

I would normally, at this point, say they were copying the Japanese.  The defensive communists among you would berate me in the comments section (feel free) saying the glorious chinese empire came up with the idea first.

But I ask you this: with such a plainly idiotic system as the one demonstrated above, why did no one think to cancel the program?  This is so stupid, I can't even begin to fathom why this was allowed to continue.

In a very, very limited sense, it might be seen to almost be worthy of contemplation in a school, what with walls all over the place.  But this?  You're relying on the perp to fall over.  Trip him up!  Someone at the back yells.  Yes but with a ruddy great pole slowing you down, you're never going to catch him.  Have someone else trip him up!  Yes, but the point is not to go near the crim in the first place.  If you need to rugby tackle the guy in order to pin him, why use this stupid device in the first place?

It's fine to copy the world, china.  We all know you aren't collectively developed enough to contribute new ideas to the world, yet - but please only copy the sensible ideas.  You need better protocols for separating the wheat from the incredibly stupid chaff.