[ExI] b riots: was RE: star trek

Christian Saucier csaucier at sovacs.com
Sat Feb 11 17:29:10 UTC 2017


On 2/11/2017 11:33 AM, spike wrote:
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> Quad-rotor drones can be flown via Skype, giving a drone’s-eye view. 
> A drone could easily carry a payload of a CO2 cartridge, with a short
> barrel single shot paintball gun.  Black-masks riot, constables fly a
> drone, spot some sleazy bastard hurling Molotov cocktails, zoom in,
> pop her with a paintball filled with phosphor compounds mixed in
> something colorless such as glycerin, in such a way as to uniquely
> identify each particular paintball.  Constables with UV lamp arrest
> anyone who glows as they attempt to escape, they figure out which of
> the anonymous rioters this is and what she did, looks for her FaceBook
> pages.  Now we know.  Wouldn’t that work? 
>

We are, of course, making the assumption that the police force didn't
hire the sleazy bastards in the first place, with orders to help turn a
peaceful assembly into a violent riot.  Cui bono.

C.
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