Lately, it seems like clips of police officers abusing civilians are threatening to overtake adorable kittens as the Internet’s most popular video genre. Police departments across the country are well aware of how these incidents are affecting their reputations, and are searching for new (read: nonlethal) ways to restore public trust in law enforcement. Unfortunately, some of these tools resemble crosses between the efforts of Wile E. Coyote and Q from the James Bond movies (when he was played by John Cleese). For instance …
#7. “Skunk Water,” Or: Riot Police Are Going To Make Everything Smell Like Shit
Riot control tools have to walk a fine line between “not discouraging enough” and “way too goddamn dangerous.” At first, a weapons-grade stink bomb seems to straddle that line perfectly. Make everyone smell so bad that they become too disgusted to keep rioting? Shit, can we get a commercial version for when our roommate won’t take the hint that we want to watch a movie?
The Problem:
“Skunk” has a few problems, aside from a name that sounds like the new teen dance craze. Described by one journalist as smelling “like dirty diapers mixed with old roadkill that’s been left in the sun,” it’s so hardcore that it sounds like something the Israeli military would come up with. Mainly because that’s exactly where it came from.
Skunk scent has a tendency to linger for days and cause massive collateral damage. Spraying looters in a store may discourage them, but you’ve also ruined all the store’s merchandise and made it impossible for them to operate for a week. Stinking for days makes it easy to identify rioters to arrest after the fact, but it also ruins the lives of innocent bystanders, whose friends, family, and co-workers will think they were out committing crimes. And let’s not pretend there isn’t an element of humiliation. In September, it was reported that U.S. police departments have been stocking up on skunk. Imagine the reaction if a mostly white police force made a mostly-black community reek like beached sperm whale for days.
Even if people are happy to see protests broken up, that good faith will be lost when they have to live and work with the smell of shit clogging their noses for a week. Whenever your riot control invention is a supersized version of a junior high school prank, you’re inviting the same people who thought stink bombs were hilarious then to go mad with smelly power.
#6. Nunchakus! For Some Reason!
Reading that Anderson, California is equipping its police officers with nunchakus sent us into emotional turmoil. In theory, nunchaku give police more options for restraining criminals, as demonstrated in these handy images:
Nunchucks: Look like a goddamn sex machine.
Yes, you can even use them as feet-cuffs. Holy shit, how did no one think of this before?
The Problem:
They did! In the ’80s, unsurprisingly. This is how it went:
There’s a reason nunchaku are illegal in California. Cops stopped using them after lawsuits from protesters and their own broken wrists. But they say it’ll be different now, because they’ll have to go through a mandatory 16-hour training program to use them. Even if they’re more responsible this time around, we imagine that increased tactical versatility will be offset by the need to detain far more suspects, because we can’t even begin to guess how many wasted dudes are going to start some shit so they can later brag to their friends that they got into a goddamn nunchaku fight with a cop. On the other hand, should this program prove successful, we’re one step closer to this being a reality:
#5. A Belt Magnet For Easy Reloading (And Shooting Your Dick Off)
The Magnetactical belt clip is a snazzy trouser accessory that will magnetically hold up your gun for you, allowing you to quickly reload it with one hand if your other hand is unavailable due to injury, firing a second gun, flipping off your attacker, etc. Sounds like something Batman would have. So what’s the problem here?
The Problem:
Huh. It … almost looks like that guy is pointing a freshly-loaded gun at his dong, but that can’t be right. If we zoom in, we’d probably see that he’s really–
OK, yeah, that’s a bad idea. Sure, in a demonstration in which your greatest enemy is your production budget, it’s easy to calmly and safely perform a one-handed crotch reload. But if you’re in the middle of a real firefight and you’ve already lost the use of an arm? It’s all too easy to imagine someone panicking or fumbling around and accidentally giving themselves an impromptu vasectomy.
The attachment’s other function is to simply hold stuff, like handcuffs, keys, or cufflinks, in case you need to raid a black-tie gala. But we know what you’re thinking: “Can I stick an exposed knife dangerously close to my gut, where anyone can grab it and stab me with it?” Yes, you absolutely can! They even show you how:
Finally, consider the fact that approximately 100 percent of people who have used a belt clip have had something fall off it and be lost to history. Things stick perfectly to the tactical magnet in the demo, where the inventor stands completely still. But the moment he breaks into anything more than a brisk walk, knives and handcuffs are going to trail behind him like bread crumbs. Although if your weapons fall off as you chase a criminal, at least you won’t have to worry about anyone (including yourself) attacking your dick with it.
#4. The Taser Shotgun (Was An Objectively Terrible Idea)
Tasers are nonlethal weapon that have killed over 500 people, so obviously, the next step was to make them bigger and stronger. The Taser X12 Shotgun had a range of over 100 feet and shocked targets for 20 seconds, which is four times the potency of a regular Taser, or more than enough to take out the drunkest of raging frat bros.
The Problem:
Suspicions were first aroused when the shotguns went on the market without any test results being revealed — which is worrying if you’re releasing a new line of televisions, let alone a product that could lead to someone’s death. And then … guess what happened. In March 2015, an Albuquerque police officer improperly used a Taser shotgun during a bungled attempt to arrest a mentally ill homeless man, starting a chain of events that led to two other cops killing him with actual guns. In Taser’s defense, the officer shouldn’t have been using their product. The cartridges had expired, and the manufacturer had issued explicit warnings that using an expired Taser was about as safe as eating expired raw chicken.
Taser had discontinued the product line three years ago, but Albuquerque police thought they were just too rad to give up. Taser cited flagging sales, while everyone else on the planet cited the fact that they were about as accurate as your blind grandma playing Call Of Duty, and that, oh yeah, they had the potential to cause serious injury. During one incident in Britain, police fired two shots at a crazed suspect. One missed and the other did precisely bupkis, so the man went on to kill himself. We admittedly don’t know much about weapon design beyond “always see if you can add a chainsaw,” but we don’t think the trick to making a good nonlethal weapon is to take an already-problematic one and make it worse.
Lately, it seems like clips of police officers abusing civilians are threatening to overtake adorable kittens as the Internet’s most popular video genre. Police departments across the country are well aware of how these incidents are affecting their reputations, and are searching for new (read: nonlethal) ways to restore public trust in law enforcement. Unfortunately, some of these tools resemble crosses between the efforts of Wile E. Coyote and Q from the James Bond movies (when he was played by John Cleese). For instance …
#7. “Skunk Water,” Or: Riot Police Are Going To Make Everything Smell Like Shit
Riot control tools have to walk a fine line between “not discouraging enough” and “way too goddamn dangerous.” At first, a weapons-grade stink bomb seems to straddle that line perfectly. Make everyone smell so bad that they become too disgusted to keep rioting? Shit, can we get a commercial version for when our roommate won’t take the hint that we want to watch a movie?
The Problem:
“Skunk” has a few problems, aside from a name that sounds like the new teen dance craze. Described by one journalist as smelling “like dirty diapers mixed with old roadkill that’s been left in the sun,” it’s so hardcore that it sounds like something the Israeli military would come up with. Mainly because that’s exactly where it came from.
Skunk scent has a tendency to linger for days and cause massive collateral damage. Spraying looters in a store may discourage them, but you’ve also ruined all the store’s merchandise and made it impossible for them to operate for a week. Stinking for days makes it easy to identify rioters to arrest after the fact, but it also ruins the lives of innocent bystanders, whose friends, family, and co-workers will think they were out committing crimes. And let’s not pretend there isn’t an element of humiliation. In September, it was reported that U.S. police departments have been stocking up on skunk. Imagine the reaction if a mostly white police force made a mostly-black community reek like beached sperm whale for days.
Even if people are happy to see protests broken up, that good faith will be lost when they have to live and work with the smell of shit clogging their noses for a week. Whenever your riot control invention is a supersized version of a junior high school prank, you’re inviting the same people who thought stink bombs were hilarious then to go mad with smelly power.
#6. Nunchakus! For Some Reason!
Reading that Anderson, California is equipping its police officers with nunchakus sent us into emotional turmoil. In theory, nunchaku give police more options for restraining criminals, as demonstrated in these handy images:
Nunchucks: Look like a goddamn sex machine.
Yes, you can even use them as feet-cuffs. Holy shit, how did no one think of this before?
The Problem:
They did! In the ’80s, unsurprisingly. This is how it went:
There’s a reason nunchaku are illegal in California. Cops stopped using them after lawsuits from protesters and their own broken wrists. But they say it’ll be different now, because they’ll have to go through a mandatory 16-hour training program to use them. Even if they’re more responsible this time around, we imagine that increased tactical versatility will be offset by the need to detain far more suspects, because we can’t even begin to guess how many wasted dudes are going to start some shit so they can later brag to their friends that they got into a goddamn nunchaku fight with a cop. On the other hand, should this program prove successful, we’re one step closer to this being a reality:
#5. A Belt Magnet For Easy Reloading (And Shooting Your Dick Off)
The Magnetactical belt clip is a snazzy trouser accessory that will magnetically hold up your gun for you, allowing you to quickly reload it with one hand if your other hand is unavailable due to injury, firing a second gun, flipping off your attacker, etc. Sounds like something Batman would have. So what’s the problem here?
The Problem:
Huh. It … almost looks like that guy is pointing a freshly-loaded gun at his dong, but that can’t be right. If we zoom in, we’d probably see that he’s really–
OK, yeah, that’s a bad idea. Sure, in a demonstration in which your greatest enemy is your production budget, it’s easy to calmly and safely perform a one-handed crotch reload. But if you’re in the middle of a real firefight and you’ve already lost the use of an arm? It’s all too easy to imagine someone panicking or fumbling around and accidentally giving themselves an impromptu vasectomy.
The attachment’s other function is to simply hold stuff, like handcuffs, keys, or cufflinks, in case you need to raid a black-tie gala. But we know what you’re thinking: “Can I stick an exposed knife dangerously close to my gut, where anyone can grab it and stab me with it?” Yes, you absolutely can! They even show you how:
Finally, consider the fact that approximately 100 percent of people who have used a belt clip have had something fall off it and be lost to history. Things stick perfectly to the tactical magnet in the demo, where the inventor stands completely still. But the moment he breaks into anything more than a brisk walk, knives and handcuffs are going to trail behind him like bread crumbs. Although if your weapons fall off as you chase a criminal, at least you won’t have to worry about anyone (including yourself) attacking your dick with it.
#4. The Taser Shotgun (Was An Objectively Terrible Idea)
Tasers are nonlethal weapon that have killed over 500 people, so obviously, the next step was to make them bigger and stronger. The Taser X12 Shotgun had a range of over 100 feet and shocked targets for 20 seconds, which is four times the potency of a regular Taser, or more than enough to take out the drunkest of raging frat bros.
The Problem:
Suspicions were first aroused when the shotguns went on the market without any test results being revealed — which is worrying if you’re releasing a new line of televisions, let alone a product that could lead to someone’s death. And then … guess what happened. In March 2015, an Albuquerque police officer improperly used a Taser shotgun during a bungled attempt to arrest a mentally ill homeless man, starting a chain of events that led to two other cops killing him with actual guns. In Taser’s defense, the officer shouldn’t have been using their product. The cartridges had expired, and the manufacturer had issued explicit warnings that using an expired Taser was about as safe as eating expired raw chicken.
Taser had discontinued the product line three years ago, but Albuquerque police thought they were just too rad to give up. Taser cited flagging sales, while everyone else on the planet cited the fact that they were about as accurate as your blind grandma playing Call Of Duty, and that, oh yeah, they had the potential to cause serious injury. During one incident in Britain, police fired two shots at a crazed suspect. One missed and the other did precisely bupkis, so the man went on to kill himself. We admittedly don’t know much about weapon design beyond “always see if you can add a chainsaw,” but we don’t think the trick to making a good nonlethal weapon is to take an already-problematic one and make it worse.
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