Re: [CH] Heat over police pepper spray
John Benz Fentner, Jr. (johnfentner@home.com)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:52:01 -0400
Calvin Donaghey wrote:
>
> The Old Bear wrote:
>
> > Gosh, I love what people send me in my morning email. The following
> > is a news clipping forwarded to me by a friend. I submit it to you,
> > without further comment, for your erudition and entertainment...
> >
> > Heat over police pepper spray
> > -----------------------------
> >
> > CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -- Many doctors and law enforcement
> > specialists say it sounds crazy. Nonetheless, police here assert
> > that they instruct their officers that a potent anticrime weapon,
> > pepper spray, is less effective against Mexican-Americans, Cajuns,
> > and other ethnic groups, because of their fondness for spicy foods.
> > ME!! ME!! I'll try it.!! Can you put it in Salsa???
> > You don't give a [longer] burst to a person who is Mexican,
> > Latin American, or Chinese."
>
> How about Irish?? Are they leaving out the Irish??? I think my Civil Rights
> have been violated.I wonder how you would sign up to be a test subject to
> check your resistance to Spray and relate it to your passion for HEAT.??
Us Paddys have other high tolerance defences...that why the
Boston cops don't spray us with potatoes.
JB
Or Guinness
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John Benz Fentner, Jr.
Unionville, Connecticut, USA
http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/
"Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis"
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