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Israel unleashes 'skunk' on protests
Herald Sun ^ | 19 August 2008 | Joseph Krauss

Posted on 08/18/2008 11:37:04 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

THE Palestinian protesters massed at the fence expected tear gas and rubber bullets; what they got instead was a putrid yellow wind, Israel's newest weapon against West Bank demonstrators.

The noxious mist, which Israeli police refer to as "skunk," was used for the first time earlier this month, when a truck-mounted cannon sprayed it over the heads of protesters, sending them racing down the hillside, retching and tearing off their shirts to try to escape the stench.

Dozens of Palestinians from the village of Bilin, along with international and Israeli activists, had marched to a nearby segment of Israel's controversial separation barrier to demand its removal, just as they have done every Friday for the last three and a half years.

"No, no to settlements; no, no to the wall!" they shouted, as they waved Palestinian flags and posters of Yusef Amira, a 16-year-old shot dead by Israeli police at a protest in a neighbouring village last month.

The Israeli border police called on them to disperse through loudspeakers, warning them they were near a "closed military zone."

Then the skunk truck arrived, spraying a cloud of yellow mist and filling the air with the suffocating stench of faeces and urine.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: islam; israel; mohammedanism; nonlethal; odor; palestinians; protests; recreate68; skunk; stinkbomb
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To: Gorzaloon
Sure beats using the Defecator! If this really works the streets will be pretty smelly. Is it legal to use such a device for crowd control? Does the Mayor and Govenor of CO have to approve or Just Howard Dean and the DNC?

Denver Police Use “Defecator” At Graduation

Denver—In what can only be referred to as a fecal disaster, Denver police were forced to use the “crap cannon”—commonly referred to as the “Defecator”—on raucous parents at the Abraham Lincoln High School graduation ceremony.

Unconfirmed reports claim that four unruly parents were the victims of a test run for the Democratic National Convention in August, attempting to celebrate their children’s graduation as they received their diploma.

“All I did,” whined Chris Davis, a 38-year old accountant, “is applaud and yell ‘congratulations’ when my son got his diploma. The next thing I know is that I’m making a mad dash for the men’s restroom, but it was too late. Somebody is going to pay for my cleaning bill!”

“This is an utter disgrace,” fired John Dankenmeyer, a 40-year old partner and attorney at Ramsey, Geney and Dankenmeyer. “I am going to sue the Denver Police and the public schools. Brooks Brother’s suits aren’t cheap!”

“I practically ruined these new pumps,” cried Shirley Calibaster, a 39-year old pharmaceutical saleswoman for the Bayer Corporation. “I had to suffer the humiliation and indignity of defecating on my self for mutter the words, ‘you go girl,’ when they handed my daughter the diploma. I will never forget that horrible night. The public schools and the Denver Police ruined a perfectly good graduation. Those pigs!”

Mayor Hickenlooper confirmed that the graduation incident was indeed a test run for the Democratic National Convention. It certainly appears that it can be used effectively to disperse unruly crowds at the convention, leaving feces lining the streets.

“You have to admit it was funny,” quipped Sergeant Jim Stanko of the Denver Police Department. “Things work far better with the ‘Defecator.’ It was amusing to see the shock and awe on the faces of the out of control parents as they grabbed their shorts while running.”

The Denver public school system had only one comment. It was that parents were warned against excessive celebration at their children’s graduation, and that they would be “prosecuted by the long arm of the law.”

Since the incident, rumors have surfaced that Rush Limbaugh might possibly have been behind the development of the “Defecator.” A spokesperson for Rush Limbaugh noted that “he, nor anyone on his staff had anything to do with the “Defecator.” As much as Rush would enjoy seeing liberals defecate on themselves, he had nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with this.”

“You know what I think,” laughed Sergeant Stanko. “I think that as much fun as I’ll have using this on Glenn Spagnuolo and Re-create 68 at the convention, I can think of five members of the Supreme Court I’d like to use it on right now. Those communists!”

From sea to shining sea, people could be defecating, simply by celebrating their own child’s graduation. It seems insignificant, but it is only a reminder that liberalism will take liberty after liberty.






41 posted on 08/19/2008 10:23:02 AM PDT by ncfool (Tell Congress no vacation until we allow Drilling in America!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Heck yeah! Put stink all over ‘em.


42 posted on 08/19/2008 11:36:23 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Russia has always been an aggressor nation)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; Aussie Dasher
hahahhaaaa!

Good for them !!

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At first when I saw the title, I thought it was REAL skunks. :)

43 posted on 08/19/2008 11:37:31 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Can they do the same thing with bacon drippings?


44 posted on 08/19/2008 11:40:23 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: CougarGA7

45 posted on 08/19/2008 11:54:24 AM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Why?

Have they run out of teargas?

46 posted on 08/19/2008 12:18:45 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hawthorn
[I’m hoping it would work better than the useless compound I tried a few weeks ago, which was largely a mixture of rotten eggs and red peppers.]

And it just clogs up in the sprayer!

47 posted on 08/19/2008 12:20:57 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: weegee
 

 

 
Here is data you can put on address labels
 and place in public restrooms
 that use hot air machines to dry hands.
 
Press button to hear details of Obama's 
 "Plan for America"
 

48 posted on 08/19/2008 3:16:00 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Aussie Dasher

You just gotta love that style


49 posted on 08/19/2008 3:18:40 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude () ......Pelosi + Reid = $ 4.00 per gallon......()
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To: Enchante
Maybe it would be useful in Denver at the upcoming Democrat convention, too!!

Won't work.

Hippies already smell like that.

50 posted on 08/19/2008 3:40:22 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Aussie, I don't think you have skunks in Australia. They are native only to the North American continent. A feces and urine smell would be fragrant compared to skunk stink. Those little darlings have nature's equivalent of the neutron bomb. It's terrible to be sprayed by one, and all too often innocent dogs are their victims. The most common remedy - if you REALLY love your dog - is to give it a bath in gallons of tomato juice. That sort of cuts the odor enough so that the dog stops crying, but then you both now have some degree of the 'distinctive' skunk odor left.

If unfortunately you run over a skunk in your car while driving in the country, your car will retain the most awful smell for days, no matter how many times you wash it and you'll smell it inside the car. BTW, I'm not kidding....

Of course, if the Israeli gas is anything close to real skunk smell, it's physically harmless but the nastiest thing you'll ever smell on earth and it takes a while to get rid of.

51 posted on 08/19/2008 4:17:31 PM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones

That sounds pretty bad. Don’t want ‘em down here either!


52 posted on 08/19/2008 8:39:02 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

btt


53 posted on 08/19/2008 10:27:49 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Slings and Arrows
"Run Abdul! They are attacking us with hippies!"

ROFLMAO! Excellent!
54 posted on 08/20/2008 5:06:06 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

That’s what I call a win-win scenario.


55 posted on 08/20/2008 5:32:52 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: Convert from ECUSA

That’s what I call a win-win scenario.


56 posted on 08/20/2008 5:52:30 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: Aussie Dasher; ExTexasRedhead

Ahhhhh .......... Bump ror later read! Thanks .............. FRegards


57 posted on 08/21/2008 11:10:49 PM PDT by gonzo ("Shall Not Be Infringed" - use it now! While you still can ... FRegards)
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To: xJones
and all too often innocent dogs are their victims.

How does a skunk tell an innocent dog from a guilty one?

58 posted on 08/21/2008 11:32:48 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: xJones

Skunk is the second nastiest thing- stinkpot turtle musk is by far the worst, IMHO.


59 posted on 08/21/2008 11:34:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Intense non-lethal. It’s been working for skunks for thousands of years. Maybe they should make it in an areosol like mace.

http://www.squidoo.com/skunk_spray


60 posted on 09/09/2008 7:44:12 AM PDT by hereIam
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