On Wed, 07 May 2008 23:12:33 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
Richard J Kinch quickly quoth:

Larry Jaques writes:

LEOs are awfully irritated when you shoot fleeing banditos.
I wonder how they feel when you shoot the fleeing vehikules.

Arresting a fleeing felon is lawful. Just what means are lawful to do so
is indeed a difficult question. But my curiousity is whether bird shot
will in fact deflate a tire, because tactically, tires are next to
impossible to hit at all with bullets.

True. I'd bet that it's considerably easier to do via the sidewall
than the thick, steel-belted tread.

--
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-- William Ellery Channing