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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:25AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:25AM (#192746) Homepage Journal

    Consider their recent decision that the police can't make you wait around for a drug sniffing dog to arrive.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @01:33AM (#192748)

    but everything else is the worst injustice in history!