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Skunk Water: A Weapon That Uses Stench to Control Crowds (perfect for caravans)
science.howstuffworks.com ^ | Nov 12, 2015 | Sarah Gleim

Posted on 10/23/2018 6:50:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Imagine being sprayed by Pepé Le Pew and an army of his malodorous friends. You'd rush home and soak in a tub of tomato juice to try to get rid of the smell, right? Now imagine a stench that has nothing on what those white-striped stinkers can douse — that's one weapon being used for crowd control in Israel, and it's coming soon to the United States.

The Israel Defense Forces have been waging war against rioters with a nonlethal — albeit truly putrid — product called skunk water, or just skunk since 2008. The spray, which was developed by Israeli firm Odortec, is said to be 100 percent organic and harmless, and consists of an extremely foul-smelling liquid with the viscosity of water that can be dispersed over a large area using a water cannon. Odortec says the overpowering stench of Skunk drives rioters away — and keeps them away, "effectively shutting down escalating situations."

Skunk was first used in August 2008 in the Palestinian village of Ni'lin in the West Bank. Border police squirted the liquid at demonstrators from containers carried on their backs. Since then, it's been used regularly on water cannons against Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem. But Israel has also started used it against its own citizens, as in the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting compulsory military service in 2014.

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But it's not just Israeli police using Skunk water — it's now available to U.S. police forces, as well, thanks to U.S. distributor Mistral Security. In November 2014, after violent protests in nearby Ferguson, Missouri, stemming from the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, documents suggest the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department ordered several canisters of Skunk.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crowdcontrol; skunk; skunkwater
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1 posted on 10/23/2018 6:50:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Arrest the ring leaders and organizers


2 posted on 10/23/2018 6:51:54 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: RoosterRedux

My guess is they already have a putrid aroma.


3 posted on 10/23/2018 6:52:09 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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The Mexicans can stop the caravan dead in its tracks by simply erecting signs on the road saying skunk field ahead (and by actually spraying skunk water if anyone enters the marked area).

It's not the Mexican government's fault if the caravan decides to enter the skunk field.

4 posted on 10/23/2018 6:55:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: FatherofFive

I was thinking it may be an improvement...


5 posted on 10/23/2018 6:56:46 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Can’t help but wonder if being part of this mob of unbathed, sweating mobsters who have lived in Central America wouldn’t somehow be immuned to this. It may even serve as air freshener!


6 posted on 10/23/2018 6:56:55 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: RoosterRedux

Gen. Bill (?) Boatner used vomit gas at the Kujido PW camp riots during the Korean War, and it worked very well. It must have been an awful messy place afterwards.


7 posted on 10/23/2018 6:57:19 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: RoosterRedux

"...Skunk Water..."


Not to mention terrific new technologies that use microwave energy to cause a burning sensation and low-frequency sound to cause uncontrollable vomiting. Neither causes permanent damage. This would be an ideal application if they storm across broad areas and are unresponsive to orders to halt.

8 posted on 10/23/2018 6:59:09 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: RoosterRedux

DO IT! NOW!


9 posted on 10/23/2018 6:59:56 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: RoosterRedux

How about that crowd control truck with the big dish?


10 posted on 10/23/2018 7:00:05 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: JudyinCanada

Well, anecdotally, as the owner of tomcat who sprays, I know that people become inured to a consistent odor, but that doesn’t make them resistant to new foul smells.


11 posted on 10/23/2018 7:01:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Well it’s definitely worth a try! I’d love to see it in action.


12 posted on 10/23/2018 7:02:45 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: originalbuckeye
I don't know why we haven't already done something to disperse this mob. We already have agents in country working with Mexicans to combat the cartels.

It wouldn't take more than a few agents with skunk water (or worse) to turn this caravan around.

13 posted on 10/23/2018 7:04:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Play the brown note at them at a really high volume.


14 posted on 10/23/2018 7:04:54 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: RoosterRedux

well, now that fire season is pretty much done - we have a lot of air tankers available for dumping a bazillion gallons of this stuff over large areas, just saying. . . . .


15 posted on 10/23/2018 7:05:13 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: RoosterRedux

Rainwater might slow them down or stop them, if we can get enough of it.
https://abc30.com/weather/dangerous-cat-4-hurricane-willa-closing-in-on-mexico-coast/4541100/


16 posted on 10/23/2018 7:07:47 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: RoosterRedux; LS

Right. I KNEW there were ways of crushing them without killing.

Also there are sonic attaacks that cause loss of bladder and colon. All kinds of stuff.


17 posted on 10/23/2018 7:08:42 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: RoosterRedux
I know it's tempting to load a couple of firefighting tankers with this stuff and make a couple of passes on the Invasion, but what about the tanker crews?

They will have to live with the stench for years, after...

18 posted on 10/23/2018 7:09:24 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: RoosterRedux

No, we need to let them clear all of Mexio’s token resistance before we can break bad. It’s just good diplomacy.

However, I do believe Trump should call for a ‘no fly zone’ and take out any drones used for caravan recon.

Also BLOCK drone signals. Jam them.

And hide our satellite feeds in that area — close to the vest.


19 posted on 10/23/2018 7:11:11 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: RoosterRedux

We also need to shift away from depleted uranium at the border. But we can spread rumors. All kinds of rumors and psych-ops.


20 posted on 10/23/2018 7:12:17 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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