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today water cannons are used to control rioting crowds.
but unless your'e really close to it , it only a discomfort,
which is why it is used only with 'geeky' protesters like students etc.
I don't need to mention what is used on more violent protestors.
I say get a whole bunch of jellyfish
, grind them up , mix with water, and shoot THAT on rioters.
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in response to the 'impractical' comments, please think again. really. I once found an article (can't now) on the net about nonlethal weapons, and some of them were much sillier (glue , foam, sound, "microwave pain ray" now featured on popsci , ) and have been implemented and tried.
maybe this praticular idea is a bit silly, because I wrote it coming back from the beach, but iv'e seen rubber bullets kill. or,well,almost..
at least jellyf burns go away after a day or two.
european swallows winter in africa.
http://www.rspb.org...allow/migration.asp
[po, Jul 01 2005]
Riot Control Bears
Riot_20Control_20Bears
DocBrown's bears. [baconbrain, Jul 02 2005]
NEW IMPROVED VERSION WITH NO USEFULNESS
Small_20Furry_20Animal_20Cannon
WHATSOEVER!! [supershnitzel, Jul 03 2005]
Sea Anemone
http://www.bootkeyh...om/MarineStings.htm
Scroll down to the section on sea anemones [hippo, Jul 04 2005]
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Is this the jellyfish that gives burns that are best relieved by dousing them with urine? |
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I was hoping you were going to suggest spraying the crowd with live jellyfish. Severity of the incident would then dictate which species of jellyfish you used, Ctenophores to Chironex box jellyfish. |
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What [ben] said. The use of live jellyfish would get a pastry; this gets a dead fish. |
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I'm starting to get the feel that in Halfbakery you have to find the superfine line between PRACTICAL and AMUSING. |
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so if I suggested using birds instead of sea-dwellers, one would surely ask: an AFRICAN swallow or a EUROPEAN swallow? |
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I DON'T KNOW!! AAAAARGH!! |
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on second thought, remembering most of you are americans, just forget it.. |
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Anyway, swallows are useless at riot control - they're only around for half the year. |
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//sorta like chemical warfare without chemicals// - If jellyfish toxins aren't chemicals, what exactly are they? |
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Wouldn't the bears eat the jellyfish? |
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//superfine line between PRACTICAL and AMUSING.// Myself, I prefer ideas that find the overlap of practical AND amusing. Perhaps amusingly impractical is the goal. Or even ideas that would be funny if they could work. But there has to be some bit of practical in there to be halfbaked, and some amusement to get croissants. Or even bemusement. |
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BTW, swallows wouldn't work well. Use woodpeckers. |
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Don't grind the jellyfish, live ones would work perfectly well, and contain an element of psychological horror to the crowd that realised they were being supressed by a jellyfish spiked watercannon during their peaceful civil rights protest. |
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I thought someone had finally thought of a way to control those damn rioting jellyfish. Back to the drawing board... <slumps down in office chair overlooking streets filled with angry jellyfish and pickets, one says "I ain't gotta brain, dosen't mean I ain't feel the pain"> |
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Jellyfish don't pay rent or walk, or talk with some Eurotrash accent. |
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Well, some of us do; I just come from this part. |
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which is miles away from this bit. |
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And I am now about as far as I can get from my own bit and manage to stay dry. |
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My bit isn't worth two bits. |
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If the police rolled the jellyfished rioters in peanut butter would they stick to the roof of the paddy wagon? Or would baconbrain's bears eat them first? |
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They aren't my bears. See DocBrown's Riot Control Bears. |
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//paddy wagon// Now there you go, stereotyping the Irish. |
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I too was hoping for whole jellyfish. |
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Instead of jelly fish, how about a ticked off cat cannon. |
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Why not release a launch a bunch of "the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent(s)" such as the little rabbit from the Holy Grail? ("We had better not risk another frontal assault, that rabbit is dynamite" -ah classic). |
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-Or how about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? |
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Monty Python is international. |
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". . . 'then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way--'
'THAT generally takes some time,' interrupted the Gryphon." |
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How often do your jellyfish riot? Float -ins... yes. Drift-bys... yes. Riots? Not so much. |
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Schnitzel is an austrian dish.
Shnitzel, on the other hand, is the most popular israeli dish, being exactly the same, except beef is replaced by chicken, which is cheaper. |
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if you travel around the world , you will find in restaurant menus 'shnitzel' on the israeli food section. |
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this is why austrians never go to india. |
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Austrians never go to India... because cows are revered, so if they were desperate for a schnitzel, they'd have to make do with a shnitzel, which would be in the Israeli section of the menu in Indian restaurants? |
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because it's too insulting to see a ripoff of something that's yours , with even the CREDITS being given to someone else. |
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americans did it first! they ripped off the hamburger, and now everyone thinks it's american food!! |
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<low whistle> Your shift key must be emmaculate. |
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Or emasculated. Either way, it doesn't seem to work. |
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You need either to come up with a practical idea, or a funny idea. One that fulfils both criteria is good, too. Fulfilling neither tends to attract fishbones. |
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"Most of you are American." No, we're not. I'd put the proportion of UK bakers somewhere near 40%-50%. |
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Come on, you're blethering about spraying ground-up jellyfish at people. Practical? No. Funny? Not really. Fish. |
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//Your shift key must be emmaculate// I think you may have a rare case of virgin spell-checker. |
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[baconbrain] You're thinking of sea anemones. If you step on one of these, get a friend to urinate on your foot. |
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//sea anemones. If you step on one of these, get a friend to urinate on your foot// |
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With friends like that, who needs anemones? |
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If that's your way of asking me to urinate on your foot, I'm saying 'No'. |
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Link added to lend support to my
assertion that urine can be used to treat
sea anemone stings. It's something to
do with the acid in the urine disolving
the calcium carbonate spines embedded
in your foot. Urine's pretty sterile too
which probably helps. |
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//calcium carbonate spines// Sea anenomes are soft-bodied - I think you're referring to sea urchins. |
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How come there's no peanut butter fish? |
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It's about survival... jelly is largely transparent, so predators don't see jellyfish. Peanut butter fish would be opaque, hence highly visible. |
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Shame, a peanut butter fish and jelly fish sandwich would be delicious and nutritious. |
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If the goal is to get the rioting crowd to pee on each other, why not then load up the water cannons with pee? That would work even at a distance. |
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Sorry to rain on your parade (or riot) but jellyfish are made of water. They decay very fast too. If you grind them up and mix them with water, you just end up with jellyfish scented water. The stingers would melt in no time. |
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Simple, have a jellyfish reservior, and a water source. The pump will do a good job of pulverising the jellyfish just in time for maximum freshness. |
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How about we just shoot the rioters? |
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instead of shooting the rioters, why don't we just walk up to them and give them a hug? |
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But, they can still riot after the hug wears off. Let's laugh at them. Embarrasment lasts forever. |
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!, |
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Yes,(strokes chin) Laughing at them just might work... |
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Why not just sit there and stare at them? That would make me back away REEEEAAAALLL fast. |
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