They're for self-defense during car-jackings.
--Adam
>
> Did you ever figure out what it was?
> I saw something like that in a friend from Minesota's car. Every time I ask
> what it was, I was told to shut up.
>
> Robert
> (sitting in a computer lab wishing they would turn up the A/C & thinking I
> should take the Harley out for a ride tonight).
>
>> You know, a ways back from my home in California, I flew to Denver
>> and rented a car. Inside the trunk I found some weird device I had
>> never seen before and I did not know what it was used for.
>>
>> I looked like a sawed off broom handle with a weird attachment on the
>> end. Mounted at 90 degrees to the handle was a piece of metal about
>> 8 inches long with a little plastic edging. Weird, what was that
>> thing?????
>>
>
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