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A South African inventor saw that there was a huge carjacking problem in his country and invented a product called the Blaster (or the BMW Flamethrower) in 1998. In that year, South Africa was the per capita murder, assault, rape and carjacking in the world.
The Blaster was a liquefied petroleum gas flamethrower installed under the side of the vehicles. If a group of carjackers decided to attack a car with the blaster, the driver could flip a switch and send a 5 meter plume of flame towards their attacker's face.
People criticized this because they thought that carjackers would just start murdering people before approaching the car; a practice that was already common before this. While some places report that the device was banned, it was actually just unprofitable, only a few hundred were sold.
