What the h*ll is that smell.
You been out protesting again haven't you.
You ain't coming back into the house until you smell like a human again.
But mom!!
Posted on 04/30/2015 5:01:40 AM PDT by McGruff
As protestors and police officers clash on the streets of divided cities such as Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, 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, Maryland, is providing it to police departments in the United States, including the Ferguson PD.
Skunk is composed of a combination of baking soda and amino acids, Mistral program 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.
The Israelis first used it in 2008 to disperse Palestinians protesting in the West Bank. A BBC video shows its first use in action, sprayed by a hose, a system that has come to be known as the “crap cannon.”
Mistral reps say Skunk, once deployed, can be “neutralized” with a special soap — and only with that soap. In another BBC video, an IDF spokesman describes how any attempt to wash it via regular means only exacerbates its effects. Six weeks after IDF forces used it against Palestinians at a security barrier, it still lingered in the air.
Mistral says the United States military has expressed an interest in Skunk, if not yet placed an order. “We’ve demoed it at Fort Bragg. Why? Because they asked about it,” said Rust.
More effective than the goose down pillows they’re using in Baltimore.
What the h*ll is that smell.
You been out protesting again haven't you.
You ain't coming back into the house until you smell like a human again.
But mom!!
I’ve gotta think the merchants in the area aren’t gonna be too fond of this.
The Department of “Just-Us” will identify this as a “chemical weapon” and accordingly a WMD when used against US protesters.
No they won’t.
Valerie Jarret will call the mayor and order them to have the police stand down.
“a cross between “dead animal and human excrement.””
Don’t most hard core lefties smell like this already?
We used to live in San Marino Calif, there were so many skunks, they came out at night, and there was a dead squirrel on our street here in Tx, for weeks or months. Both odors are just horrible. I think this new weapon will work!
Yes.
“There’s something particularly nightmarish about the use of a weapon like Skunk in the context of an American city like Ferguson. The spraying of feces agents on a crowd of U.S. citizens represents a tangible and absolute reinforcement of social division. There is no more complete way to dehumanize someone than to make that human repulsive to herself.”
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When those “U.S. Citizens” are acting like feral animals instead of human beings, they’ve already ‘dehumanized’ themselves .... Skunk sounds appropriate to me.
Heh.
Yeah. I was thinking they could call it “eau de occupy.”
Aw, h*ll! With all the blunts the protesters are smoking, don’t they already smell like skunk?
Should be fighting them with AR-15's.
Better to call it "eau de obama".
ayep.. and the local residents will thank you for it, i’m sure
I guess we now need to stock up on Epoleon N-100.
Won’t the smell also get on the police?
Or are we going to start seeing..... ‘Skunk Drones’?
Isn’t baking soda supposed to neutralize odors?
If it makes Palestinians smell worse than they already do....it’s GOTTA be BAD!!!!
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