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Many writers and film critics and literature say the art imitates life, but we can say otherwise. Customers and employees of the agency of the Bank of Brazil of the city Sítio do Conde, located in the state of Bahia, lived moments of panic at the end of the morning of June 2 after about 10 heavily armed men stormed the agency to commit a robbery. After the robbery, the bandits exchanged fire with the military police and fled taking hostages as a shield. In an image disseminated on the Internet, two of the victims appears tied to the windshield of the vehicle used by criminals like the the scene from the movie Mad Max - The Fury Road where the character Max is placed in front of a vehicle and used as a blood bag and especially as a human shield. The group fled towards the state of Sergipe and released the victims in the city of Jandaíra. No information about the amount stolen by the gang.

Brazilian website that helps prevent car thefts Residents of the city of Belém, state of Pará, adopted alternatives to avoid the assaults, and the Internet has been a tool in the prevention of crimes. One is the site "Where was robbed", built collaboratively to netizens mark on an interactive map the points where they were victims of thefts, robberies and car break-ins. The population believes that initiatives such as "Onde Fui Roubado" (Where was robbed) can be very effective to prevent assaults. Some sites like "B.O Coletivo" (Collective police report) also allow the analog record of events: accessing the page, the user can print a poster to indicate where he was robbed. Another application used by smartphone owners is "Waze", which uses the phone's GPS to display routes in the city, allowing the surfer mark points of interest as hazardous locations and stretches where there is visible policing.

Police car for sale at auction Cars of the Civil Police and Military Police of São Paulo are being auctioned by the state the same way they were during the service. That is, characterized in corporate colors and markings for police departments, second a news story of Jornal da Band. A vehicle in these conditions costs around US $ 4,000, are sold legally and the buyer would have no obligation to change the paint or vehicle characteristics, because the car already out of the auction with all documentation in order. From a legal point of view, who concludes and buys a former police car isn't outside the law, but it would be the very state that is selling the vehicles of wrongly way. The vehicles couldn't be auctioned, as well, for they might be totally uncharacterized to be then sold to ordinary consumers. The problem is that these vehicles removed from service and apparently auctioned with the same look when they were still active, can favor organized crime, ...

This not only happens in small towns and away from major urban centers. Especially in the big cities, it's common owners of very old vehicles leave their cars on public roads because there is no state policy that defines the destination of such durable after the end of their duty cycle. This attitude leads to the accumulation of trash and rats in the streets, besides injury hazards. Another possibility is the owner sell the vehicle to a junkyard, unusual place today. A major problem is the lack of incentive by the Federal Government for material recycling and the sustainable development.