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- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Raoul Duke: "Wear some golf shoes, otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive. Impossible to walk in this muck."
Golf shoes FTW!!! - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Makes me thing back to the Nickelodeon days...
- pr0t3st, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10There is no such thing as a fair fight in the streets.
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Or steal some random nearby bicycle pedals like on "The Transporter". Slippery oil didn't stop him from kicking everyone's trash!
- deesine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Not to mention that if this stuff is really that slippery, how will the police 'nab' the rioters?
I got one! Oops, he got away. - tralfamadore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wow. This is an awesome invention. I shall finally be able to moon walk.
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13This wouldn't change much. Rioters are running completely off their limbic brain, and so this slime would not change their emotions at all, and it may actually make them more angry. They'd just roll on the ground beating each other up, or throwing rocks.
Also, if the riot is against law enforcement, then are they going to have spiked shoes to keep them from slipping too? This could endanger everyone. Also, who's gonna clean up the slime? Does it stain or ruin anything? A mob is one thing, but when law enforcement are the ones damaging the property they better pay for it. What's to stop the mob from surrounding law enforcement? They'd have to get in the goo themselves eventually.
Why not just spray people with a fire-hose? knock the wind out of them, knock them off their feet, knock them out, leave them drenched, have unlimited fuel (water). What's wrong with dropping non-lethal gas-grenades like they do now? What about those new cool hot-pepper bullets that they used during the Olympics in SLC? Those things are completely non-lethal and it stopped the mob quick while disabling their violent activity. That was WAY more effective (it was even tested and proven during an Olympic riot), and there was nothing to clean up. - karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The rioters, who, were unfortunate enough to be the first to arrive, will only serve as human grip tape for the next wave of rioters.
- gekkokid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8what a joke! soon as some jerk falls over they will sue the government, class
- newezra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Supersoaker beat them to it with the new Oozinator.
Oozinator TV Commercial - http://www.break.com/index/supersoakerad52.html
Yes it is a real product - http://www.hasbro.com/supersoaker/ - Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Hey, a new way to make rioters slip up! Or is it to make them "goo" home. The victims of this will really need to get a grip. Okay, I'm done now.
Wait... this slime is sublime!
Okay, I'm really done now. - deusdiabolus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Perhaps a good idea...until they start bringing boogie boards and swim trunks. "What began as a peaceful protest suddenly became the most wicked Slip n' Slide anyone has ever witnessed!"
- Runik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5With some funk music or something will all inanimate objects start dancing ?
sorta looks like the slime pack thing from Ghostbusters 2 - vanillapod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This sounds like the basis for a really fun party. Like a giant-sized version of running around hardwood floors with your socks on. Until the imminent collision. But you could pad the room. Or something.
I'm so immature - krawkula, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Mass chaos in 2 easy steps
Step one, break into your cities storage facility for this and steal one
Step two, spray this stuff on main street intersections - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I see once the ghost-hunting market ran out of steam the Ghostbusters thanked god that the Government offered them another form of contract!
- solidcube, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree with this.
They'll use these weapons to stop legitimate demonstrations. Demonstrations, in the modern media-centric world, are oftentimes the only way we have of getting public attention. Politicians don't care what we think, they're more interested in their own kickbacks. - carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"if the poor don't like it, they can buy their own senators"
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5just throw out free iPods to the rioters... they'll be happy and go home...
- newezra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Has anyone thought about what happens after a crowd gets slimed? Exactly how are the police going to walk up and arrest the rioters?
What a mental image! Cops slipping and falling as they try to arrest people. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4 When I was little, there was a backyard toy thing you could buy, called slip 'n' slide.
It was a long plastic, perforated runner, that was semi inflated by a water hose attached, and kids could run and slip and slide. It was billed as 'fun for the whole family.'
So now they invented a new slime...works anywhere!
LMAO
Why waste it on socio-political dissenters...it belongs in amusement parks! - PhobosGekko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Acrylamide needs to be handled using Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) to avoid poisoning since it is a neurotoxin. Polyacrylamide is not toxic, but un-polymerized acrylamide can be present in the polymerized acrylamide." From Wikipedia.
Real safe and non-toxic indeed =p - johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ouch! Then they'll slime the crowd again, and it will be more fun than twister.
I really don't think this will work well in the real world. Look at how many times people get crushed at stadiums during a panic. - TopherT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think it'd be better as a barrier then to spray at crowds. Instead of the huge police line that invites attack as the crowd surges forward you put this stuff down in front of the police line. If they can make it to the cops they won't be able to do much damage. Of course if the crowd is really pushing this might invite alot of deaths from trampling, but at least the cops wouldn't be the ones doing it... not exceedingly better but nothing invites riots like cops killing rioters.
- skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Awesome, this is making me want to riot
- u3b3rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cramp-ons, studded tires, and body armor.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3PLEASE!!! Tell me you got the ***** golf shoes!!!
- PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually IIRC the dutch police quelled a riot by using a combination of water and elephant dung. The rioters fled quite quickly. No slipping, just stinking. :)
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2even better, New Scientist states polyacrylamide's potential for neurotoxicity in their April 22nd issue:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19025483.600.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4After sliming the unruley crowd of college spring breakers the police, decked in riot gear prepare to arrest some very slippery suspects.
Cop1: Well Johnson, I suppose its time we go in and arrest some people.
Johnson: ok let me get out my handcuf WHOA!!!!! (Johnson slips and falls on his face in the filmy muck that he just sprayed onto the agressive crowds, while most of the riot squad tries to go in for the arrests they have realized that maybe sliming the offenders with a slippery substance was probably not the best Idea. Some rioters catch wind of the cops trouble to get close to them and begin sliding away)
Cop1: Stop you are all under arrest!!! (In a panic Cop 1 dives into the muck and slides after the suspects, other cops join in as well trying to capture what has now become a slippery situation.....A slip and slide style chase ensues and onlookers are baffled as the streets are littered with protesters sliding away from cops who in a desperate attempt to arrest the suspects have made a complete mess of the streets and look like bigger DickAsses than before. - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is the first thing I thought. If you gas the people, at least the cops can wear gas mask so they can apprehend rioters. If you slime everything, then everyone, including the cops, are screwed.
- ArchivalQuality, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Then maybe they shouldn't have been involved with an unruly mob?
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm, I see a great alternative to the European practice of pie-ing politicians.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They should make it edible - and cookie flavored. That would solve all the problems.
- OropheR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, and how do you clean that? :-)))))
- notdarkyet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1umm....it doesnt say anything about cleaning up. i can imagine something like this being a complete pain to clean and i wonder if they even have anything invented yet that would do the job.
- ericrolph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lots of very sharp spikes, worn like cleats -- that'd keep a grip on the ground and make protest possible.
- DirtySanchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anti-Riot slime or AWESOME PARTY GAME! Beer + Nudity + Slime gun = Awesomenesssss
- gab00n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can see the lawsuits piling up already
- amigiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"protesters* should be bringing to the demonstrations"
That was my first thought, my second thought was legal liability, we won't be seeing this in use. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*Anti*-riot? Are you kidding me? The diagram on the patent makes it look like something *protesters* should be bringing to the demonstrations. Are the police creating a barricade to push you back? Just hose 'em down and we'll see what good that riot gear does them.
- augiedb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a viral video just waiting to happen. I can't wait to see it on YouTube, if they're still around when it happens. Let's see, when's the next WMF meeting?
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does no one else think this would make rioting more.. fun.. and kind of fail as a deterent?
Slightly more importantly : How hard it the stuff to clean up..?
- Ben - deusdiabolus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have two words.
BUKKAKE GUN. - EvilBadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ghostbusters 2. Does it make toasters dance?
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not to mention as soon as this slime hits the ground and people fall, any crap, dirt, or other particles of filth with be pretty much stuck to you. anyone remember how hard it is to get crap out of nickelodeon slime?
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's probably water soluble, that would make it much less likely to stain, and you just spray it with a fire hose into the drains
- dobey123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You just wanted to say "limbic" didn't you...
- HunterKiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't worry, this slime is positively charged... They'll wake up feeling like a million bucks.
- Leadhyena, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are other military applications of this technology. The article mentions that even vehicles can't get a grip on a slick of this fluid; this would make for an excellent road block or vehicle trap. I imagine this would even slow down tanks. This stuff would also be really useful to start an ambush; imagine a throwable grenade of this stuff launched in the room before a swat team takes it down. And, if this slime is really that great of a lubricant, why couldn't it be used in mechanical devices?
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