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from the just-when-you-thought-that-things-couldn't-get-worse dept.
The Economist has a short blurb on a crowd dispersal used against stone throwers in Israel.
It smells like raw sewage mixed with putrefying cow's carcass, and it might soon be Israel's latest high-tech export. Skunk, as it is appositely called, has been used by Israeli soldiers since 2008 to disperse Palestinian protesters. Now it has attracted the interest of law-enforcement agencies in America which, after riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, crave better ways to scatter rioters without killing or injuring them.
The good news is it is entirely non-toxic, and allegedly drinkable, and serves to clear the area with no injuries. There are reports of its use go back several years
Palestinians call it simply "shit."
"How can you describe this stuff?" said Muad Tamimi, whose gas station on the front line of Nabi Saleh's standoffs is often bathed in it. "It's beyond foul water, like a dead body and rotting food together, which no soap or perfume can take off - I'm hit with it and nobody goes near me for days."
The bad news, is there is some indication that US Police departments are starting to order the Feculent fragrance for their own crowd control situations.
A report this week that Skunk is now being sold to American local police departments was initially confirmed by a Maryland-based company claiming to be the vendor; but then swiftly retracted.
It remains to be seen how this "collective environmental punishment" will go over in the streets of the US where people call the police on dog walkers that fail to pick up after their pet.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:04AM
Friends and family will disown you and your boss will fire you, not just because you smell bad, but because you dared to disobey authority.
OBEY OR you will have NO FRIENDS and NO FAMILY and NO FUTURE.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:37AM
You sound like one of those "independent libertarians" who, well, just happens to depend heavily on your employer, your family, your friends, and especially the government.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:42AM
As opposed to you, small business owner with a shop on the corner. Uh-oh, Walmart's coming to town. No more customers for you. Whatever will you do, successful businessman dependent on no one?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @04:22AM
Anti-authoritarianism is not indicative of libertarian sentiment, in fact the later is very compatible with authoritarian governance since it only insists on economic freedom. An oligarchic corporocracy is the wet dream of right-wing libertarians.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Sunday June 07 2015, @08:44AM
So, you are saying there is no downside for me to disobey authority...