why did highwaymen disappear with the advent of the motorcar? highway robbery has never been easier>get a fast but discreet looking car and a gun>camp in the middle of nowhere with no plates>wait for some expensive car to drive by, catch it and pop the tires>take all the richfags posessions and scatsounds like easy money to me. and if you stop a semi carrying some expensive shit you could steal enough to not work for the rest of your life. so, why havent (You) become a modern day highwayman?
>>28780508why bother driveway robbery is easier
>>28780512>cameras>populated area, so lots of witnessesnigga you retarded?
this still does happen in places like mexico, they will box you in to steal your truck.muhmeds in europe raid trucks the same way exept they do it by covering an exit ramp with trees and garbage.
>>28780508because it became a lot easier for the men-at-arms to patrol the highways, tooin the 1600's the 'demotist age' was facilitated by the proliferation of personal firearms, when whoever could field the largest numbers of mass conscripted musket men superceded elite fighters with capital intensive equipment (armour and horses) as the most militarily dominant forms on the battlefieldin the 1800's the demotist came to an end with the invention of the high explosive fragmentation shell, which rendered mass conscripted riflemen obsolete as the most militarily dominant form, as well as dephosphorized steel (long range artillery in small tactically mobile forms), and later radio communications and electricity; these are all things that favored the ability of larger scale hierarchically organized social organism to exercise power or control (and since the incumbent ruling classes of the time where inheritors of the revolutionary regimes that preceded them, they never the less maintained the pretense of demotism regardless; but that's a story for another time)
>>28780508this doesn’t happen in america because every third car has a loaded gun in it>driving down country road at night>spike strip pops my tires out of nowhere>hellcat with its lights off rolls up>blast the shit out of his windshield with my glizzy
>>28780955that indeed might be risky in amerikkka where everyone carries, but in a noguns country it would work wonders
>>28780508There's no vast stretch of wilderness, where the nearest law enforcement or next wagon is hours or days away anymore. At least not on any roads a significant amount of traffic goes down. If you try knocking over an 18-wheeler on I-70 in Buttfuck, Kansas the fifty other people that pass in that minute are going to call the police, and Sheriff Cletus will provide a spirited response.
>>28781226on some shithole roads you can literally get like one car coming through in an hour. and its not like the police would show up in seconds like in gta. you have plenty of time to steal all the shit and run, and if you were using some npc silver 2011 camry with no plates then good luck finding you
>>28780508statistically speaking around here you'd be lucky to get past your first robbery without catching a chest full of hollowpoints.
>>28780508It was, but then highway patrols became a thing. In the end highwaymen lost to attrition. I remember watching a video on forgotten weapons showing a sawed off shotgun from the 20's that was sold as highwayman protection gun.
>>28780508>stop a semi carrying some expensive shitThis still does happen but they're usually called road pirates.
>>28780955>blast the shit out of his windshield with my glizzyWhat if the hot dog just bounces off the windshield?
>>28780508It used to be that roads far away from towns were completely lawless, no real way for an authority to respond. Now they'll be there within minutes, and forensics makes catching criminals more easy.
They still exist, they're called Roadmen. Car jackings never went away.
