How to Dodge and Disarm the Sonic Weapon Used by Police

[LiberalArkie]

Audio producer Cory Choy was reporting on the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests in New York City when he first experienced sound as a weapon.

“Horrible, nauseating pain hit my body,” he tells Popular Mechanics, “and then I realized it was sound. At first you just think, ‘What’s happening to me?’ Your body goes into complete pain and panic mode. It’s the sound equivalent of looking into the sun.”

Despite his professional-grade headphones, the effect of the weapon—a long-range acoustic device, or LRAD—was so disorienting at first that Choy couldn’t tell which way to run and was forced to randomly pick a direction. But he was lucky.

“People in the direct line of fire [of the LRAD] didn’t run,” he says. “They just dropped to the ground and started screaming.”

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https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a32892398/what-is-lrad-sonic-weapon-protests/?utm_source=digg

[dalton99a]

1. "LRADs can cause lasting hearing damage in a matter of seconds"

[Champion Jack]

2. Yeah, doesn't really tell you how to disarm it...

[LiberalArkie]

8. Go perpendicular to the wave

[SidDithers]

3. Wouldn't a slightly parabolic "shield" of hard material reflect and concentrate the sound waves...

back in the direction of the officers using the LRAD?

Sid

[LiberalArkie]

9. Maybe, but since it is acoustic, the shield would be hard to hold on to because of the massive

vibration. Remember it makes people have massive bowel movements. Hunting hearing protectors might work a little. The ones that go over the head.

[mercuryblues]

4. A weapon of war used on peaceful protesters

The best advice they give is cover your ears and move to the side. If you can.

[MagickMuffin]

5. The lengths men will go to cause pain on innocent human beings

No matter where in the world this weapon is used, it is being used against people.

Just observe that "person" in the photo, he looks like he is enjoying himself. He's got all the protection for himself, all the while knowing that the people is is using his weapon on doesn't stand a chance.


I WANT my tax dollars back and I WANT those weapons removed from enforcers control.

[FM123]

6. This makes me furious that they do this at all!

“This is why LRADs should be banned against civilians, especially those exercising their right to peacefully protest,” Ewing-Moody says.

“People should be able to protest safely,” she says, “without fear that sonic weapons designed for war will be used against them.”

[crickets]

7. So - who is the real terrorist in this scenario? nt