Slippery Slime Developed to Control Crowds

Posted by chrisd on Monday March 4, 2002 @08:00PM from the mud-wrestling-protestors dept.

powlow writes "Southwest Research Institute (press release )developed a non-hazardous chemical spray system that spreads a highly slippery, viscous gel (which the lab designated a "mobility denial system" and dubbed "banana peel in a can") to inhibit the movement of individuals or vehicles on treated surfaces. Marines Corps believes it can be used for crowd control. (Defense Technical Information Center's PDF Report) In tests, volunteers attempted in vain to walk across a lawn sprayed with the slime, and in fact, had they not been safety-harnessed during the tests, many would have broken bones."

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Re:get real mate by Bnonn · 2002-03-04 22:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

Come on, the guy's a troll. Heck, he can't even differential between "you're" and "your"--so not just a troll, but a badly-educated one. It's sad when I can still see comments like that browsing at +3.