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Are there really interrogation chairs like you see in the movies?

My friend and I have a bet - I say that there’s no such thing as these chairs and he says that there are. We’re talking about the kind of chairs where a person sits down, puts his arms on the armrests, and then these manacles snap closed around his hands and feet (usually when the evil villain presses a button underneath his desk). Is there such a thing? Do they use them in prisons/the military?

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Kinship offline Verified User (3 years, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 2 years ago (2 minutes after post)

They do have restraining chairs. I doubt they’re automatically clamping. I bet some russian interrogation chamber once made a real version for kicks and giggles though.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years ago (5 minutes after post)

Yeah :) but that’s the kind I mean - automatic clamping. I’ve actually seen a chair that was similar once - it used a wooden bar which shot in front of the person’s chest and pinioned them to the chair and it activated with the pressure of the person sitting down.. but it was just a joke chair and afaik one of a kind.

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.Eli. offline Verified User (3 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 2 years ago (17 minutes after post)

Nope, those chairs exist only in movies. Why? Because those kinds of restraints can cause damage to the interrogated person, and causing damage to him is not quite legal. It’s much more handy to just cuff the persons hand behind his back and make him sit in a regular chair.That way you can kick him in the head and write in the report that he simply fell from the chair and hit his head. That’s what they always do.

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