Riot Crowd Control - With Slime!

[SVZ]

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.

Read the full patent here.

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/inv...ot-slimer.html

[Grimmlok]

WHy wouldn't they just hook it up to the usual police tactical vans that already have the firehoses?

[twitchy]

The picture looks like it's from Ghostbusters.

[buttmunch]

Well, it's better than rubber bullets. Alert Israel.

[SammysMom]

Im getting an image of Ghostbusters too and that show on Nickelodeon where people got slimed. Had Alanis Morrisette in it back in the 80's.
I could just see it now some drunk chick in a short skirt getting slimed and saying "oh yeah baby slime me. Give it to me good. Oh yeah just like that". HEHE