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Well alright. I guess that just means we need to get rid of our paper cheddar before flying...anywhere.

They're going to realize very quickly, if they don't know already, that they're going to have to ignore teeny-tiny amounts of cocaine traces in scans.

Also, when you fly somewhere, traveler's checks are usually the way to go anyway.

ok so i have a question re: laser thing:

are there really enough attempts to get guns and explosives on planes to warrant this? is it such a common thing that people are regularly in danger?

also i am uncomfortable with full body scans because if i pass but am pre-op, it will reveal me as being born female. which can be really dangerous in some places and humiliating in others.

It's not that they're common occurrences, it's that we don't want any single instance to even happen, like what happened with 9/11. The security checks can be a little tiresome, but they're necessary since such things do apparently happen. As long as there isn't a dipfuck working the controls it shouldn't be that bad.

"Let's set this bitch up to the stun setting, I wanna see what that does."

I understand now~

I don't really have a video to present or a neat science story, but I do have some sciency questions to ask.

The unit is certifying in nonlethal force, which involves everyone getting tazed, and sprayed. Given external research, I've found that the active ingredient is capsaicin, which acts as a nasty irritant for both food and pesky rapists. I've discovered it's a hydrophobic fatty acid which would, by the best sciency logic I could muster, make it fat soluble, or soluble by pretty much anything ELSE that hates water, including oils, and detergents. I'm guessing at least one or more of you fine gentlemen have also heard of the effectiveness of milk in such situations, given a special protein. My main question is if this is at all pertinent to the situation I/we will be facing come the weekend? They're not going to be rubbing habaneros in our faces, it's been established as police grade OC spray (even though the C does stand for "capsicum"). I don't know if they put some fancy shit in there to make it where milks and oils don't do shit for the intended burning sensation (so the criminals don't get wise an' shit), I wouldn't put it past them. So can anyone confirm/deny my pseudo science, either from less pseudoey science of their own and/or personal experience? It'd be pretty silly for me to to get sprayed, rub myself with veggie oil, and then have it do jack all for the burn.

Please and thank you.

... Are you expecting to get pepper sprayed or something?

I at least wouldn't rub the affected areas, you could rub the chemical further in your skin. Rinsing it off with copious amounts of oil would probably work the best. Take pre-emptive methods perhaps, and smear your exposed body with something like vaseline Wear swimming goggles and generally try to cover all orifices.

The most important thing with any irritant is constant motion of a cleaning solution. This is why you flush your eyes in an eyewash station in the event of a chemical spill in the lab. However, once you're irritated, you can only prevent the further exacerbation of the problem. Capsaicin is an instant irritant, which is why it's an effective means of crowd control, and if you get hit by it, you're still going to be pretty much out of commission.

And if you're wearing an obvious thing to avoid getting hit with pepper spray (like goggles), you're probably going to deal with a different method of being taken down, and you might constitute a bigger threat than your peers for being obviously prepared to resist their methods of detainment (basically it would be like wearing a ski mask in a bank).

You could wear a silly looking swimmers outfit, with goggles, a swim-cap, a snorkel, flippers and a speedo, rub yourself in vaseline and be decently protected while not looking like a threat. Loose the flippers if you have to run though. And test if the vaseline works first.

All I can think with Vaseline is that if it doesn't work, it's going to be a bitch to flush the effected area.

And you're not going to want to touch anything when you're covered in that shit.

Very true, optimally you could have an oil bath/shower to get rid of it all, but idk how much that would cost.

Guys, I'm a medic in an MP company. They regularly have to get sprayed and tazed to get certification in nonlethal force, just like we need to keep qualifying with the M16 only to do that we shoot rounds downrange and not get shot in the face with it. I'm not exactly going to use this to hunt me some sweet rapable booty or protest a silly message about "the 1%". Thank you though, all I really needed was confirmation that what I found would actually work. you said something about Vaseline, so would Vaseline enriched lotions do anything, or would it have to be an oil?

Just follow your superiors directions. Doubtless they already know the best way and will inform you of what to do before or after your spraying. It's pretty much identical to how military gets to sit in a gas chamber to test their knowledge of equipping a gas mask before removing it.