[SOC] Try reading this without laughing

[Michael Coslo]

On 3/29/10 11:53 PM, "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> An SOC buddy of mine did something similar in the early 90's when tazers
> were still relatively new.  He was laying in his bed tossing it up and
> catching it and somehow managed to engage it and catch it with his nuts.  He
> says he doesn't remember much of that night.
> 
> Not to be outdone, retroactively...
> 
> About ten years of age my buddy and I were scrounging in trash cans and
> found a can of mace.  Managed to blast ourselves squarely in the face.
> 
> A good decade later, a buddy of mine, a security gaurd was staring intently
> into a hole on the side of a power pole.  I asked what he was doing, he
> replied "carpenter bees"  We both got real close just before he shot some
> disastrous combination of CS or CN gas and pepper spray, which we had
> expected to go into the hole, the dipshit was holding the can backwards.

What's more, it probably had no effect on the bees.

> In the mid-90's, there was a recall of a certain brand of pepper spray.  Not
> overly hot, perhaps 1.5 SCU, but bad enough.  My Dad thought it would be a
> good idea to drain and depressurize the canisters before disposal, I thought
> it would be good to do it over a wall between two buildings where nobody
> could easily get to.  What I didn't figure on was the wind currents that
> carried two canisters of the spray not over the wall, but back up and square
> on top of my head.  I didn't discover this until an hour later when driving
> in traffic and it began to run into my eyes.

We often borrow tents from our County for field day. One year the operators
in one of the tents were complaining about tearing up, choking and cough.
Turned out that the tents were used the day before for training Police in
using tear gas. That stuff has staying power.

But really, all that stuff is designed to stop people in their tracks. It's
a good bet that it isn't pleasant.