Patent ID: 7226238

Claim:
An apparatus for engaging wheels of a moving vehicle and stopping the vehicle, the vehicle having tires with control arms and drive axles, the apparatus comprising: a 10 foot long and 1 to 2 foot wide deployment board having a hinge in a central portion, a 30 foot long, 0.5 inch diameter wire rope removably fastened onto said deployment board by a plurality of clips for allowing said wire rope to separate from said deployment board when struck by said moving vehicle, said wire rope attached to a plurality of 4 inch by 8 inch by ⅛ inch steel plates, each said plate having an upper surface and a lower surface, a guide tube welded onto the lower surface of each said plate, said wire rope threaded through each guide tube on each plate for maintaining said wire rope in connection with said plates, a plurality of barbs welded onto the upper surface of each said plate, said wire rope configured into a shape of two sliding loops on said deployment board, one loop for each wheel of the vehicle, whereby each loop engages a tire, creating a lasso effect, and forcing said plurality of barbs on said plates into the tires of the vehicle, causing the cable to wrap around the wheel and control arms, thereby using the vehicle's own power to generate the lasso effect to disable the vehicle's control arms and drive axles, and causing the wheels to seize and/or deflate.