Chinese forces prepare to use 'giant fork' on Hong Kong protesters

Politics aside. While seeming scary, this kind of device is actually widely deployed in China, especially in schools. It proves to be very effective for police use:<p>1. Dull tipped, won&#x27;t penetrate bodies. 2. While in use, no direct body contact between you and the other. 3. Effective, since human doesn&#x27;t really have much strength in the chest &#x2F; stomach area.<p>I don&#x27;t think Mirror chose a good picture for the use, this one&#x27;s probably better: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.china.com.cn&#x2F;txt&#x2F;2010-04&#x2F;30&#x2F;content_19937607.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.china.com.cn&#x2F;txt&#x2F;2010-04&#x2F;30&#x2F;content_19937607.htm</a><p>Honestly better than guns and more effective than shields.

&gt;giant fork<p>Not a man catcher?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Man_catcher" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Man_catcher</a>

&gt; Potential injuries include burns, puncture wounds and welts<p>yet<p>&gt; repeatedly do this without long-lasting identifiable physical traces, makes them a favoured tool of torture<p>if i understand this correctly it seems that the risks are either pretty low or the artifacts don&#x27;t last very long.<p>anyway, is the mechanism similar to e.g. Taser? if so seems much ado about nothing here, American cops have been getting off on using those for decades

I wonder if these might be safer than e.g. American crowd control tools.

I think the bigger news is that China state media actually mentioned Tianamen Square yesterday and how the response to Hong Kong won&#x27;t be a repeat because they have better tools now<p>and this is the tool?<p>what a twist!