Posted on 10/01/2009 3:16:21 AM PDT by JoeProBono
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Police ordered protesters to disperse at the Group of 20 summit last week with a device that can beam earsplitting alarm tones and verbal instructions that the manufacturer likens to a "spotlight of sound," but that legal groups called potentially dangerous.
The device, called a Long Range Acoustic Device, concentrates voice commands and a car alarm-like sound in a 30- or 60-degree cone that can be heard nearly two miles away. It is about two feet square and mounted on a swivel such that one person can point it where it's needed. The volume measures 140-150 decibels three feet
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The British learned a lot about the conequences of using painful non-lethals on crowds in Northern Ireland.
What they learned was that dispersed crowds don’t all go home and sip tea and knit sweaters. Some of them dig up rifles and build bombs, and they start using them.
Something to consider, for those LE officials who think that “non lethal” crowd dispersal is a win-win with no downside.
Why use all that fancy, expensive equipment when some well-aimed bars of soap will do?
Coming soon to a tea party near you.
Scary. Questions to ponder: Is this still a free country? Are we still Capitalist or are we Fascist? Is the tipping point coming soon or are we already serfs working for the special interests?
I remember reading stories on how people defecting from China or the Soviet Union grew up thinking they had been living as free men.
Don’t LRAD me bro
I would say a large caliber round might take out the transducer of such a device...they are nice round targets!
I would say a large caliber round might take out the transducer of such a device...they are nice round targets!
“I knew the day would come that these so-called non-lethal methods would be employed against civilians in America.”
Man up and buy some ear plugs.
;-{)
And you don’t think that SWAT counter-snipers are not just waiting, eagerly, for the opportunity to shoot that shooter?
Ear plugs won’t do jack. Like a butterfly net to stop a bullet.
Spot and get them first.
Now you have gone from the legal but questionable use of a painful non-lethal crowd control device, to a shooting battle with bullets going both ways over (an maybe throgh) the crowd.
Are you famliar with “Bloody Sunday” in Northern Ireland, and what followed?
One day after such a battle in the USA, Congress would pass all sorts of “emergency” decrees and freedom would be dead.
And CW2 would probably be on.
Don’t LRAD me broAs serious as this issue is, I can't help it: LOL!
won't work, it's so loud there's bone conductance in your skull
Just replying to your comment regarding non-lethal crowd control methods in Ireland. A sniper could take out such a device well away from where SWAT teams could get to that person easily, shooting from a number of directions.
I’d rather have the earplugs than not have them..
Is discharging a firearm a felony if all ya hit is the horn on that wiget ?
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