Our local news channel has been running a report about police using tazers. It struck me that wearing metal foil sandwich material clothing would very effectively short circuit the charge being delivered by the device. Was Den Heggarty of The Darts a style leader in his Baco foil suit?
Tazer usage
Jan 19, 2016
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No, you're thinking of Gary Glitter. And Bacofoil's no good as it's too easily torn. You want chain mail for that.
50 years ago I used to make my own tasers and take them to school for a laugh, giving the other kids shocks - and nobody got killed! How come all this harmless fun like we had back then is now regarded as akin to terrorism? Kids today are growing up in s*it times.
Nay lad!, kids these days wouldn't know how to make one anyway!.....
Actually there was a news item a few months ago where the in the US their was this drunk woman causing havoc, and they tazered her several times with no effect, and ended up just having to use a lot of burly cops. So a skinful of alcohol might well also work! Brian
I suspect a thick layer of subcutaneous fat offers much greater protection than a skinful of alcohol.
Tim
Ok it's not baco-foil but it is shiny.
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We had a local chemists shoppe like that in Rose Crescent Cambridge and the two of them in there were proper chemists. The sort of balding, horn rimmed white coat ones. They did advise which err, "substances" did or didna oughta be carried home on the bus;!...
I remember a wonderful old-style proper chemist like that from the early
70s in Tun Wells, just as you describe. He would (reluctantly) furnish me with any acid I asked for, which he went round the back and prepped himself. In all my visits I don't recall any other customer coming in during those preps. Magic times indeed. Thank god back then I was unaware of hydroflouric acid or I probably wouldn't be here now.
Why, are you gluten intolerant?
Eh??
You wrote hydro-flour-ic instead of hydro-fluor-ic. Flour contains gluten etc...
Tim
Which is the one that dissolves your bones? :-)
HF
Get the pH right, and any acid will dissolve bone, given time. That's why skeletons don't survive in acid peaty soils.
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The problem with HF is not particularly that it will dissolve bone, but when it eats into your skin and the tissue underneath, the burns don't heal, and require injections of a magnesium salt into the wound to precipitate the fluoride and render it inactive.
It also tunnels into the bones if unchecked. Very nasty stuff.
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