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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Future Police Speculations Needed
Message-ID: <1752@geac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 09:09:52 EST
Article-I.D.: geac.1752
Posted: Mon Nov  2 09:09:52 1987
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References: <1463@haddock.ISC.COM> <1824@trex.rutgers.edu> <23473AE4@PSUVMA> <7731@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.
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Summary: State of practice...
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In article <7731@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|In article <23473AE4@PSUVMA> AE4@PSUVMA.BITNET (Jon Acheson) writes:
|[ much previous discussion ]
||     Anti-terrorist techniques would also improve: in a hostage situation,
||fast-acting anesthetic gas would be shot into the room: before the thug can
||do anything, they are waking up in jail.
|
|I'll leave it to a doctor to argue that one... I think that the speed of
|action would be limited by the rate of delivery to the brain... neither
|solution in blood, direct permeation of cells, or attack on nerve
|channels would seem to work fast enough.

  A useful drug here is one which lowers the blood pressure.  If it
can be convinced to take effect suddenly... (that's the problem with
most diffusion-spread drugs, they ain't sudden enough).

  The robbers are holding up the bank.  Suddenly one of the bankers
grabs his chest, groans and falls over.  The robber whirls around,
tries to point his shotgun at the dying banker but can't seem to
keep his balance.  Seconds later everyone is laying on the floor,
gasping...
-- 
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