We can make yellow ICE bracelets

[cyclonefence]

from 1/2 or 3/4 inch wide grosgrain ribbon, cut to length and glued into a circle. They need not exactly duplicate the real thing; the symbolism will be simple, clear and easy to see at a distance.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. I prefer dts to be iron bracelets.

It could happen.

[cyclonefence]

4. Your mouth to god's ear

[likesmountains 52]

2. have you seen a photo? I'd love to make some.

[cyclonefence]

3. No, I just thought of it

Here's how to do it. Measure your wrist circumference, add an inch for overlap. You can buy this ribbon at craft stores. Have somebody hold it around your wrist for you while you put a drop or two of glue on the end, then overlap and press the ends together. It would be very, very easy, cheap, fast to make in quantity.

If you wanted to get fancy, you could buy some self-stick Velcro and put a little bit of that on the ends, so it would be easy to put on and take off.

[likesmountains 52]

5. Thanks! solidarity!

[cyclonefence]

6. I'm going to be working a phone bank for a progressive House candidate tomorrow

and you have inspired me to make a couple dozen of these and give them out to volunteers.

[jberryhill]

12. Or get a 100 pack for $14 from Staples

https://www.staples.com/Baumgartens-Security-Wrist-Band-Tear-Resistant-Yellow-3-4-x-10-100-Pk/product_228126

[cyclonefence]

15. Those are really good!

Unfortunately, our Staples store just closed--but I bet there's another office supply store that would have them--thanks so much.

[jberryhill]

17. Have fun

Just don’t get mistaken for an ER patient, nursing home resident, or ordinary detainee or inmate who would usually wear an ID wristband of some kind.

[cyclonefence]

18. I'm chortling

thinking of the white-jacket boys chasing a gaggle of us with great big nets--thanks again.

[jberryhill]

19. Well yeah

Because there’s really nothing unusual in institutional settings to have color coded ID wristbands.

But, yeah, mental health facilities or ride tickets at fairs and amusement parks use them too.

I wear mine in solidarity with everyone else over 21 at the beer festival. Because they use these sorts of bands there too.

[jberryhill]

7. Or just get them at iceid.com

https://www.iceid.com/

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Link comes with "unsafe warning"

[jberryhill]

9. Here you go:

https://www.roadid.com/

The band being touted as the one in use is a common silicone emergency ID bracelet. The "ICE CONTACT" is "in case of emergency" contact.

EMS services recommend having an ICE in your contact list, so that if you are found unconscious, then they can contact your designated emergency person.

[cyclonefence]

10. Thanks

(I got an "unsafe" warning, too)

Those are nice, and if I wanted one just for ID and not for protest, I'd buy one. But they cost $25, and the ones I'm going to make will be less than a dollar apiece.

[jberryhill]

11. Yes, well the government is not using $25 engraved ID bracelets either

Tyvek bracelets come by the roll:

https://www.wristband.com/ready-made-bands/tyvek

You can get a 100 pack for $13.99 from Staples:

https://www.staples.com/Baumgartens-Security-Wrist-Band-Tear-Resistant-Yellow-3-4-x-10-100-Pk/product_228126



What's good about them is that they come serialized and are difficult to remove (if you've ever been to a festival or concert that used them, then these are that non-rip material), and are precisely what are used in quantity at events where, for example, one cards people at the door and issues a wristband to distinguish between people who can be served beer, etc..

So for $14 you have one for yourself and 99 friends.

[jberryhill]

13. What do the real ones look like?

[cyclonefence]

14. very much like the ones you found for sale

In fact, they might be identical. My idea is to have a noticeable bright yellow wristband that would echo the real thing. And I saw that Trump isn't the first to use these bands, but I think in view of the horrible things being done to people who have to wear these, things that were not done before like taking children from their mothers, they're a convenient shorthand for protest and solidarity.

[jberryhill]

16. So you don't generally object to detainee ID wristbands?

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Just these ones.

Because everyone is just going to assume you were out clubbing and didn’t take off your wristband.