The next time you need to incapacitate a bunch of people sitting on the ground silently protesting corporate greed, think outside the box — face-burning spray canisters are becoming passé. Mother Jones’ Dave Gilson wraps up the best eye-melters around.
There’s the fogger, the backpack sprayer, or, my favourite, PepperBalls, which combine the pain and accuracy of a gun with the chemical potency of ol’ fashioned pepper spray. At this rate of progress, I’m hoping there will be some way to arm Predator drones with capsaicin and just directly crash them into protestors. [Mother Jones]