Invention: The riot slimer

[dogday]

Riot slimer

Rioters could soon be in for a slippery surprise. Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, US, are working on a new non-lethal weapon that could quite literally bring them to their knees – by sliming them.

The institute has developed a super-slimy substance. When fired at an unruly mob it causes rioters to simply slip over.

Riot police or troops would wear a back pack with three cylinders – one containing compressed air, another filled with plain water and a third containing a supply of very dry, finely ground, polyacrylamide powder. A nozzle, resembling a shower head, would blasts two separate jets, containing the water and the polymer powder, in the general direction of an ugly crowd.

As the two jets mix in the air, after clearing the nozzle, they create a slimy mixture that covers the ground and causes everyone in the area to fall down. Even vehicles should be unable to get a grip on the goo, the patent says. And because the gel is non-toxic, it should cause no permanent harm, besides a few bruised bottoms, that is.

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9094-invention-the-riot-slimer.html

What happens to the elder protestors, or pregnant women with this weapon?

[mr_hat]

1. And don't even ASK what happens if they cross streams.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Yeah, doesn't that cause total protonic reversal? n/t

[walldude]

4. I am the Keymaster!

[mr_hat]

7. Yep. Good against marshmallow; against rioting flesh not so much.

[Richard Steele]

6. Bwahahaha!!!!

Seriously though, how to the cops plan to arrest 'rioters'
on this slippery stuff?

What do the Liability Lawyers think about
vehicles sliding uncontrollably through a crowd that can't run away?

[MADem]

3. How long before some clever bastard finds a material that will

enable a person to remain standing in the goo? Before ya go to the riot, you put on yer antislime booties!

And then, there's the question of CLEAN UP...how tough is it to get that crap off the street? Will people be slipping and sliding days after the riot? Ya run down to Starbucks, and end up falling on your ass and sliding down two blocks? Cars end up crashing into buildings?

And if there IS an easy cleanup, what's to prevent organized rioters from bringing along their own supply? And how do the cops prevent themselves from being caught up in the gunk???

[Richard D]

10. And what about . . .

. . . college kids and dorm pranks. Wow. And will it lead to an all out orgy . . .

[MADem]

13. Like mud or jello wrestling???

Oi, vey!

[babylonsister]

5. I can just see cars slamming into people.

:(

[Richard Steele]

9. People who can't run or even stand up!

First thing I thought of, as well.

[longship]

8. Egon's gone bub-bye

Sorry!

One thinks of slime and the inevitable pop culture connection snaps into one's mind.
:7

[AnneD]

11. I see many elderly at the protest rallies...

a hip fx in the elderly can be a death sentence. This is not good.

[Mythsaje]

12. I like the idea of a non-lethal

way to stop riots. But the comments by some of the posters here give me serious pause. How effective will it be if the stuff is too much trouble to use?

[deaniac21]

14. Then it won't sell.

[warrens]

15. Just bring your own

And slime them first.