A test driver disposes with some local difficulty By Jeremy Vine in Johannesburg Car drivers in South Africa are being offered a new method of preventing hijacking.
Doctors say the device is lethal - but the police have confirmed it is perfectly legal.
In the province which includes the city, there were 4,000 car hijacks between January and June this year. People pull up at traffic lights, they stop their car and then someone comes up to the window with a gun and tells them to get out. Charles Fourie, who invented the blaster, says drivers should put their hands up and then step on the gas. Either you get shot, your wife is raped, your child is murdered - against him getting burned. No legal problems Police say they cannot see any legal problems with the blaster - so long as the right people are blasted.