I was a soldier who had to train with tear gas every six months.
Carry bottles of water and empty buckets with you. Also bring fireproof gloves. The grenades are extremely hot so you don’t want to pick them up bare handed. Once you’ve got the grenade drop in in the bucket and dump water on it until it is submerged. CS gas breaks down in water so this should neutralize most of the gas.
Traffic cone on top of the canister, bottle of water down through the top. Drowns the canister and deprives it of oxygen, ending the reaction.
That said, if you put it in a bucket of water you need to submerge it and the gas can be caustic, so wear gloves with good coverage and chemical resistance.
They aren’t caustic. If they were they’d melt your skin from exposure to the smoke. You wear gloves (nomex or something similarly heat resistant) because the grenades are really fucking hot. You don’t want to cook your booger hooks on a grenade casing.
During the Hong Kong protests, people brought tennis rackets to fire them back. Some people had oven mitts to grab and throw/move them, and they’d put it in a bucket of water or put a traffic cone on it and pour water in.
Hypothetically, how do you render these tear gas things useless. Can you bring a bucket of water and throw it in there?
Edit:
Guys check out a video I found
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vurZOkcJb5c
I was a soldier who had to train with tear gas every six months.
Carry bottles of water and empty buckets with you. Also bring fireproof gloves. The grenades are extremely hot so you don’t want to pick them up bare handed. Once you’ve got the grenade drop in in the bucket and dump water on it until it is submerged. CS gas breaks down in water so this should neutralize most of the gas.
Traffic cone on top of the canister, bottle of water down through the top. Drowns the canister and deprives it of oxygen, ending the reaction.
That said, if you put it in a bucket of water you need to submerge it and the gas can be caustic, so wear gloves with good coverage and chemical resistance.
They aren’t caustic. If they were they’d melt your skin from exposure to the smoke. You wear gloves (nomex or something similarly heat resistant) because the grenades are really fucking hot. You don’t want to cook your booger hooks on a grenade casing.
Make sure the traffic cone doesn’t have nubbins on the bottom because that’ll leave gaps for the water to escape.
I saw one a while ago from the Hong Kong protests of someone using a thermos, with some liquid in it looked pretty efficient
During the Hong Kong protests, people brought tennis rackets to fire them back. Some people had oven mitts to grab and throw/move them, and they’d put it in a bucket of water or put a traffic cone on it and pour water in.