Our correspondent in Israel writes, "We have come up with a new form of crowd control called skunk. It's a spray that is a cross between shit and dead animal."
Off to Wikipedia! It's a mist, fired from a water cannon, first used in September, 2008, and very frequently thereafter. It doesn't wash off easily and is said to linger in clothing for up to five years.
A BBC reporter described it as "an over-powering mix of rotting meat, old socks, topped off with the pungent waft of an open sewer." No matter what you do, it lasts on you for at least three days. The mist is based entirely on natural organic ingredients such as yeast and baking powder. If you swallow some, it won't hurt you.
Our correspondent continued. "Our Palestinian friends feel this is degrading and is treating them like sub-humans. They throw stones and seem to prefer a bit of tear gas or rubber bullets rather than (the smell of ) shit and dead animals."
This is a great invention! I'd buy some this afternoon if it were available here. Bad guy approaches you - blast! Bad guy denies any wrong-doing, but HAH! You can smell the evidence! A further punishment might be making the villain wear those clothes for specific periods of time...
I like this idea of getting some more and more -- maybe our Israeli correspondent can be convinced of the ripe market here and to become a skunk dealer... I'll look into it.
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