Re: Non Violent Weapons

> My favourite weapon was the "snot gun." It was a projectile weapon
> that fired a stream of, well, brownish gunk. It could completely bind
> a man and hold him in place, helpless. It fired much like a
> flamethrower. It would probably be useless in a military setting, but
> police forces are always interested in non-lethal weaponry and that
> was the main target. There were a number of problems with the system,
> though having the miscreant's friends fall over laughing was probably
> a bonus side effect.

I wonder if this is the same one I heard about.  In the story I heard,
it worked perfectly (just like SF) until they tried to get the test
subject out of the "snot."  Seems that they didn't actually develop any
kind of solvent for the stuff so they had to chip it off.  Took two
days!

I'd hate to be that guy...

Tom

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Thomas Pope
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope