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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @02:34AM
Send your personal telepresence robot to attend the protest instead.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheLink on Saturday June 06 2015, @11:32AM
I'd thought that some of the car-happy bunch would be doing stuff like driving around the target's home or something - the cops could tell you to drive off, or find some reason to stop you and arrest you for some made up crime (make sure you have car cams), but if there are a lot of you, the whole place would be gridlocked whether they like it or not :).
(Score: 1) by KGIII on Sunday June 07 2015, @09:56AM
I figure if we get a million cars, not people, and have them all try to park as close to the White House as they can, at the exact same time (GPS is good for this), and then all of us just sit in our cars and not move them then we *should* at least get a little attention. It would probably be best to just prepare to pay the towing/storage costs and exit the vehicles peacefully, leave them there, amd then go camp on the mall or something.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2015, @09:33PM
Sounds like a good way to get shot, to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_shooting_incident_%282013%29 [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by KGIII on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:23AM
We should stop at designated areas and depart our vehicles peacefully. All of us. A million of us in our own cars. As the person who proposed this, I will risk my life and get out of the vehicle first. However, I will not be running into/over security personnel and I will not be going past clearly marked signage that warns me about proceeding further. I am not sure that they needed to do what they did to the person in your linked article but I can understand why they did it.
I also do not know why they took the injured security worker to the hospital via helicopter when the injuries were not life-threatening. I suppose it made better theatrics at the time.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."