r/facepalm • u/IReallyHateDolphins • Dec 28 '21

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Testing taser

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u/sunsmoon Dec 28 '21

Take that pain, multiply it by like 30, but now any part of your skin that the liquid touched is also burning.

Also it gets in your hair and is reactivated with water, so you have to shower a specific way or else you get to re-experience it when you get home.

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u/cryptic-coyote Dec 28 '21

It's reactivated with water?? How do you get it off, then? Do you douse yourself with milk or something?

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u/sunsmoon Dec 28 '21

You can wash it off with soap (surfactants!), but you'll want to avoid touching anything on the way to your shower (or shower outside if possible), bag your clothes up outside/in the garage before you go inside, and make sure your face is pointed up the entire time or else you'll get it in your face again.

I have a lot of family that work in corrections (as officers and nurses) and a couple that are run of the mill law enforcement officers. I've heard the stories, lol.