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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Does it cause arcing in metal? Glasses, zippers, belts giving third degree burns, destruction of personal electronics like cell phones, hearing aids, pacemakers?
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Odd,
they didn't see any metal caused burns in testing. I wonder why?
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...volunteers played the part of rioters or intruders and the ADS was used to drive them away. The experimenters banned glasses and contact lenses to prevent possible eye damage to the subjects, and in the second and third tests removed any metallic objects such as coins and keys to stop hot spots being created on the skin. They also checked the volunteers' clothes for certain seams, buttons and zips which might also cause hot spots.
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The lesson: if you want to protest/riot, make sure you have good uncorrected eyesight and dump the coins. Do this and you'll never be hurt by this weap-- err, crowd control device.
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One person suffered a burn in a previous test when the beam was accidentally used on the wrong power setting.
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...unless someone bumps the knob by "accident".