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Aerosol Spray to Identify Bombing Suspects

Posted by samzenpus on from the spray-the-terror-away dept.

RedHanded writes "Forensic chemists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a color-changing spray that can identify people suspected of making or planting bombs. The chemical turns from yellow to bright red when it comes into contact with urea nitrate, an explosive residue that may be left behind on the hands of someone who has handled an improvised device."

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  1. caught red-handed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does it work on people who handle cluster bombs?

  2. Just another excuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just another attempt by agents of the Surveillance Society to curtail our freedoms. In a free society, there is no need laws regulating the use of high explosives. High explosives are useful in a number of areas from farming to mining to home defense.

    High explosives in and of themselves are harmless. What causes problems is when certain individuals get it into their heads to use these compounds to violate the rights of others. That is when law enforcement should step in, not before.

    I an sick of all this scaremongering in the MSM about "car bombs" and "homicide bombs", as if the miniscule threat of a terrorist attack compares in any way with the ongoing oppression of free individuals happening all around us. The Bush administration and their masters in the Israeli lobby have gone too far this time. I call upon all right-thinking Americans to paint their hands red in solidarity with all whose rights will be violated by this anti-high-explosives witchhunt.

  3. So uh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is EXPLOSIVE JEW SPRAY a meme yet? ... ...

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  4. Easier, 1 step method by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Step 1) Wave a bar of soap at the suspect.

    If the suspect stays still, they're not a bomber. If they jump back at the sight of the soap, it means they're a dirty a-rab with a stick of dynamite SHOVED UP HIS TURBAN USA FTW!!1!!!!FUCK YOOOO LIBBS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Test it in Israel first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does it also detect residue from aerial bombs on the hands of Israeli terrorists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpilots?

    1. Re:Test it in Israel first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Were you bullied by an Israeli exchange student? Did he bed the girl you lusted after? Did you try to "teach the kike a lesson" and got beaten up because you are a nerd and he did Krav Maga? Were you laughed at, humiliated? Was he better than you in all courses? Even in the computer science classes where you thought you were a genius?

      This must burn horribly. Is this why you post shit on slashdot? Maybe you have a two-bit blog where you vent your powerless rage every evening, after a long and dreary day at the local fast food, flipping burgers and frying chips?

      Why don't you, like, simply kill yourself? It can be painless, you know.

  6. Re:bomb makers or... by Crudely_Indecent · · Score: 0, Troll

    sheesh, false positives.... Why bother when you're the gov't. Just hand your agents cans of red spray paint and arrest everyone. We're just cattle anyway. It doesn't matter if they actually catch the right bad guy, as long as the blame can be squarely placed on the shoulders of somebody already in custody.

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