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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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06 February 2001 - 3:59 pm
Why don't WashU engineers do cool things like this?
The Swiss police who were protecting the World Economic Forum (Remember the riots in Seattle about a year ago? It's the same event.) had a secret weapon they planned on using against protesters: cow manure. It seems that the police had loaded all of their water cannons with liquid manure, thinking (quite correctly, in my opinion) that being sprayed by manure would be more likely to deter protesters than being sprayed by water. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you view the issue of spraying people with cow dung), the barbed wire, steel fences, and roadblocks kept demonstrators far enough away that the dung gun wasn't needed. To quote from the Business Week article (paid subscription required) where I got this information , when asked "about it, one heavily armed policewoman in Davos [the site of this year's forum] smiled brightly and remarked: 'At least it's organic.' "
Posted by on 6 February 2001 at 3:59 PM
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