Posted on 07/24/2004 6:48:32 PM PDT by NCjim
Drug users and prostitutes are turning up their noses at the condemned buildings they once frequented in Richland County. Deputies here have begun using a chemical spray that makes the places smell like a skunk has come calling.
Skunk Shot, made in New Zealand, contains synthetic skunk oil in a gel-like substance and was originally intended as a cat and dog repellent.
It's a stinking solution for a disturbing problem in some neighborhoods. Vagrants' use of the buildings has taken a nose dive, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
"In the 11 places we've used it, it has been very successful," said Lott, who ordered 10 tubes of gel at $14.95 each in January.
Richland County sheriff's Cpl. Danny Brown spends part of his time spreading the stink in buildings that owners say they want to stop trespassers from visiting.
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good luck, and be careful where and in what you store something like that.
I'm afraid to admit I read Steal This Book when I was 11 or 12. I was amused when in the preface Hoffman suggests children will think it's a comic book -- that's pretty much all it was to me at the time. (Who can forget the comic where the dimwitted fellow takes LSD and sets all his chickens free?)
I've always wanted to see an annotated edition of the Anarchist's Cookbook, which would detail various incidents where people have come to harm or worse attempting to follow the recipes in the book. E.g. (I'm making this up) "Step 3 in the procedure is particularly dangerous; this is the point where 'work accidents' commonly happen in the Gaza Strip when suicide bomber belts are being made..."
I used to have a copy of the ACB, and was appalled by the imprescision of the technical diagrams, the poor quality of the instructions, and the repellent emphasis on drug manufacture.
I trust military field manuals.
the ACB is a darwinian force multiplier.
I was thinking of storing it in the terrorist's gullet..
But I'd have to find and capture one first.
All those books gave me and my friends at the time was how to create stupid pranks. We never hurt anyone or anything.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178196/posts
Gotta tree huggin troll over here.
yep - already been there to look.
not yet sure it is a troll, but it smells like one, and it talks like one...
I live 120 feet from where the Communist "demonstrators" will begin their march on the Republican Convention in NYC (23rd and 7th). Can I use this stuff to spray the end of my block to keep the vermin away?
SO many errors and fallacies over there, so little time.
Sorry - polystyreme is not so bad, as the MSDS says -
"Fire Protection Equipment: Wear self-contained, positive pressure breathing apparatus
(MSHA/NIOSH approved, or equivalent) and full protective gear.
Unusual Fire and Explosion
Hazard:
Product is combustible thermoplastic material that burns vigorously
with intense heat."
I was thinking of polyurethane - it's close relative, made from isocyinates.
At least it wasn't like a Science teacher telling us to put brake fluid, or standard hydraulic fluid, into bleach and 'tell himn what happened'.
Makes anoxious vapor that can kill you actually.
(Antifreeze and bleach does something as well, but I can't remember exactly what and with all the different coolants out there for cars, it may not happen now that stuff has been changed over the years to be enviro-metly fwendwee.)
I swear, kids can't be kids these days.
yeah...
in other news: PatriotJ is all the way dead, it appears.
I got in the last post on that thread, too!
Neenerneenerneeeeeeenerrrrr!
LOL!
And right when I was gonna say sometin' as well.
This is sure to solve the problem.
Also,buying Bobcat-P helps pay the doctor bills for the guy that makes the cats pee in the bottles. ;)
It's been a long time, and I have forgotten a lot. I used to know many dangerous concoctions which could be made simply by mixing stuff from under the sink and in the kitchen, medicine chest, generally.
But I do remember enough to know that there are some very danerous combinations, easily available and people who don't know shouldn't fool around with the stuff.
Just look what happened with OKC, mixing diesel fuel and fertilizer. Look what happened to the ships loadiing at Texas City. Look what happened when the jail caught fire in Jacksonville, FL and the burning foam padding smoke killed the inmates. Look what just happened a few years ago with that nightclub in Rhode Island.
hell, we used to play with mercury, bare-handed.
I swear, the way the nannystate natters on, you and me and just about everyone else who grew up free oughtta be long dead.
my high-school chem teacher came late to class one day, just as the buzzing of queries was beginning, and set up a plexiglass lab shield on the lab table he had as lectern. He then left the room. He then returned with a beaker of water, which he set inside the shield. He then left. He returned with a large oak plank, with which he topped the shield. He then dropped something in the beaker, lowered the plank to rest briskly, then walked out of the room, flipping out the lights as he went. Just as we were getting curious enough to leave our desks to see what was goiung on in the beaker, it blew up.
Natrium.
aka pure elemental metallic Sodium.
produced a great quantity of free H2 in an enclosed space, as well as a lot of heat.
Eventually, the heat and pressure added up to KaBOOM!
He came back in, and proceeded to lecture us on thermodynamics and the gas laws.
It is such a pity such teaching techniques would get you jailed these days.
reckon it was PJ's post 150 to badcompany that got him and it killed?
I have a constant supply of dirty diapers from my 2 year old. I've never had a problem with animals getting into my garbage cans.
Same principle.
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