![Two Yemeni soldiers rigging up their AK-47 starter improv. [YouTube]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_standard/public/im/yemen/ak47.jpg?itok=2jFh-I3o "Two Yemeni soldiers rigging up their AK-47 starter improv. [YouTube]")
Kalashnikovs are not just for shooting and killing, they can also jump start your car; this is what some Yemeni police struggling with their unreliable cars have discovered.
Al Arabiya News Channel on Monday aired a video showing two Yemeni policemen linking batteries of two vehicles through their Kalashnikovs to get one of the cars working.
Yemen, which has a population of more than 23 million people, has 50 million personal firearms according to estimates.
The Yemeni authorities have confiscated 246,000 illegal weapons in different governorates.
