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Question: Bain's escape from The Cop Car


I know It's just a movie, but aren't the back of all windows in Cop cars shatter proof? Also, how the hell did Bain ever undo his cuffs? Was he double jointed or something?

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i cant help with your first question, but in answer to your second question, he dislocates his thumb and then slips out of the cuffs, not sure how he got out of the second one though. he must have been double jointed.

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1) Well they're supposed to be bullet proof...

2)You don't have to be double-jointed... you can kind of "train" your thumb to be a lot more flexible. He twisted his thumb around, and slipped out. For the rest of the scenes he had one on his other arm. When he got home he probably took a drill or something and removed the cuff...

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actually general he took the cuffs off his other hand before he left the scene.

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The windows in police cars are more shatter resistant than your standard vehicle. There is actually no such thing as bulletproof.

All he would have to do to get the cuffs off his other hand was to go to one of the officers and remove the handcuff key from them and uncuff himself.

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Didn't you hear the pop as he dislocated his thumb before removing the cuff and then pops it back into place. Ouch!
I think he got the key for the cuffs from the cop that was left alive when he took his gun back.

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I have researched the specs on cop cars before, and standard cop cars do not have bullet-proof windows. I never even heard of them having anything but normal windows, but who knows. Bullet-proof cars are specialized expensive vehicles for VIPs.

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