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Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life

Posted by timothy on from the is-this-a-joke dept.

gbjbaanb writes "Cool new urban battlefield weaponry for the geeks to fear. The Id Sniper is a nonlethal sniper rifle that fires tiny GPS microchips into the body of the target. The idea is that a rowdy crowd can be tagged for later 'processing' by law enforcement officials. Apparently the chip hitting you will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. Although it looks, and sounds like a cyberpunk weapon, its for real from a Danish company that has already shown it off at a Chinese Police exhibition. check out the tracking software." Here's hoping this is cautionary artwork.

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  1. Re:this is absolutely horrible by akgunkel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It has to be. There is no way you could achieve injection this way without causing some real injury. Assuming you could get this to work at all, would it really "feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second?" I don't think so... ever been shot with a BB-gun? That hurts a lot more than a mosquito-bite even if it doesn't break the skin.

  2. Re:Good aim... by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Although this is almost certainly a parody, most non-lethal weapons for crowd (read: riot) control can cause serious injury. Things that explode and fire pyramids of hard rubber, hard baseballish balls shot at high speeds. These are non-lethal in the sense of "we're trying not to kill, but we're willing to accept some losses".

    There are appropriate times for these weapons, but they are all too often used casually.

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  3. Mod me down, please! by RobertB-DC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can't believe I fell for it. The site is such an obvious fake. These guys are laughing their collective butts off at our readiness to don the tinfoil hat and march into battle.

    Mod me down... after replying to such a fake, I don't deserve Karma.

    Now, what do we do about Timothy, the editor, and gbjbaanb, the submitter?

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  4. I'm from Denmark by Xel'Naga · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'm 100% certain it's a fake. I remember seeing interviews on the television with the guy behind this, talking about his experiences in China with this completely nonexistant weapon.
    I'll try to dig up a link with the real story about this.

    Xel'Naga

    1. Re:I'm from Denmark by Xel'Naga · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Googling finds this: http://www.lixen.dk/artikel-arkiv.asp?code=2003-2- blackbox

      Kunstneren Jacob S. Boeskov, redaktør på 'Answering Machine', rejste i sommer til en våbenmesse i Kina under dække af at være våbenhandler. Med sig havde han billeder af det fiktive våben, ID Sniper. Artiklen om Kina-turen i Black Box beskriver, hvordan Jacob S. Boeskovs fiktive våben tiltrak sig så stor interesse på våbenmessen, at Boeskov til sidst var mere eller mindre ødelagt af frygt for at blive opdaget.

      The artist Jacob S. Boeskov, editor at "Answering Machine", this summer travelled to a weapon-con (?) in China, pretending to be armsdealer. He brought pictures of a fake weapon, ID Sniper. The artikle about the trip to China in "Black Box" (Magazine, Xel.) tells who Jacob S. Boeskovs fictious weapon attracted great interest at the weapon-con, untill Boeskov was terrified if he was revealed.

      Xel'Naga

    2. Re:I'm from Denmark by Xel'Naga · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The artist who pulled this stunt, explaining how he faked this
      Click on "My doomsday weapon".
      Xel'Naga