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Title: Irritant Gasses
editor: The Pyromaniac
There are several eye and nose irritants on
the market which can be easily duplicated. A good irritant is formaldehyde. Better known as
embalming fluid, it smells horrible, hurts the eyes and nose, and upon exposure to the air it
vaporizes, making a room uninhabitable for hours. It can be squirted from a water pistol or nasal
inhaler, poured on the floor or vaporized by a bomb. Formaldehyde can be bought at the drug store
under the pretext of wanting it to preserve mice or other lab specimens.
The irritant mailmen
use against dogs and which is sold widely for self defense is oleoresid capsicum. Capsicum is the
hot essence of red peppers.
Oleoresin is the process for extracting it. To extract the
Capsicum, grind up four ounces of red pepper seeds in a blender or with a mortar and pestle.
Red pepper seeds are bought in the grocers’s. The dry, ground seeds are then put into a coffee
percolator in which there is about 16 ounces of alcohol, preferably with the water distilled out.
The seeds are then percolated for about a half hour. The alcohol is then distilled off until there
are only a couple of table spoons of red liquid left in the flask. The red liquid is then added to a
half pint of light mineral oil, bought at a drug store.
These can be sprayed from a nasal
spray or another good way is with a window cleaning sprayer bought at any dime store. The tube of
the sprayer is cut to fit in a two ounce medicine bottle. This way you have enough of the goody to
last through a whole demonstration, no matter which side you’re on. It is also nice to keep by the
door to repel intruders. Before using, the container should be given a few shakes. Under laboratory
conditions all the oil is extracted
from the seeds. But with my Mickey Mouse method a lot of
oil is left in so the residue is quite potent. Just be sure you strain out any larger bits so the
sprayer hole is not clogged.
The ground seeds left in the percolator are dried and saved. They
are great for throwing into the faces of people in a mob. If you really want a laugh, throw some
broadcast from a theater balcony during the death scene in "Love Story".
The goody
called MACE is probably only acrolein. If not, it works just as well as MACE and is simple and fun
to produce. It is the same product as
described on pages 104 through 106 of the ANARCHIST
COOKBOOK. Mine however,
is broken down and simplified.
Acrolein is not toxic but causes
horrible pain in the nose and copious
tears, and irritates the skin. A shot in the face from a
water pistol or
some other sprayer will put anyone out of the game for at least half an
hour.
Acrolein is best made an ounce at a time. Put in the flask 2 1/2 ounces of glycerine and
3/4 ounce of sodium bisulfate (Sani-Flush), both of which can be bought at any grocery store. The
still is set up with the outside tube connected as the fumes are bad. Then the mixture starts to
bubble it must be watched constantly to make sure it does not bubble up into the neck of the flask.
If it starts for the neck of the flask, remove the lamp until it settles down. If the lamp is too
hot, the tin can is raised on small blocks until the right heat is obtained. Distill off an ounce of
acrolein and take away the lamp. An ounce is all this size batch is good for. Let the flask cool for
an hour before opening and cleaning. Pour the residue down the sink and put your face over the drain
to get a sample of the vapor. Then cap the receiving bottle
and wash everything the acrolein
was in contact with.
The best squirter for the three irritants above is a water pistol. Most
water pistols leak badly so they must be transported barrel up so the goody won’t ooze out around
the trigger. It will leak when you use it so it is best to put in a plastic sandwhich bag with the
opening held around the barrel with a rubber band. If the pistol has a trigger guard it should be
cut off and then it can be used just as easily in a plastic bag as otherwise.
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