Police try to stop car thief with giant snowball in Russia’s Far East

When all else fails, throw snowballs...this is what the police in the Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk did to a carjacker trying to evade arrest. On Jan. 14 a local filmed an officer tossing a giant snowball into the path of the speeding driver, but to no avail. The culprit simply drove through it - however, he was arrested a few hour later according to the local media.

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