America’s Police Will Fight the Next Riot With These Stink Bombs

[TexasTowelie]

As protestors and police officers clash on the streets of Baltimore and other divided cities, some police departments are stockpiling a highly controversial weapon to control civil unrest.

It’s called Skunk, a type of “malodorant,” or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting, it has been described as a cross between “dead animal and human excrement.” Untreated, the smell lingers for weeks.

The Israeli Defense Forces developed Skunk in 2008 as a crowd-control weapon for use against Palestinians. Now Mistral, a company out of Bethesda, Md., says they are providing it to police departments in the United States.

Skunk is composed of a combination of baking soda and amino acids, Mistral general manager Stephen Rust said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Armament Systems Forum on April 20. “You can drink it, but you wouldn’t want to,” said Rust, a retired U.S. Army project manager.

Read more: http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/04/americas-police-will-fight-next-riot-these-stink-bombs/111430/?oref=d-mostread

[rurallib]

1. thought you were going to say they would throw a Republican presidential candidate to the crowd

[yuiyoshida]

2. why not lob open pieces of DURIAN FRUIT...

I am sure that will work as well..and the protesters can eat it as well... as a snack.

[ret5hd]

3. I think 2 can play that game:

http://www.seashepherd.org/commentary-and-editorials/2010/07/16/bye-bye-rotten-butter-bombs-81

Sea Shepherd ships pursuing illegal Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary have effectively used bottles of Butyric acid for five years as stink bombs on all campaigns between 2005 and 2010.

The chemical, which is simply rotten butter, is an organic biodegradable substance with a pKa of 4.82 making it less acidic than beer or vinegar. We chose it because it does not pollute the marine environment and it does not cause harm to humans or other living things. It is not poison nor is it corrosive.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Yes, I remember that smell.

I had to work with it when I was doing a lab experiment for organic chemistry. Ugh.

[Malraiders]

5. The stink bonb was originally used by Nixon against

Muskie. And Dick did much worse too.