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Is it more or less humane? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 months ago (4 children)

As a child I loaded an air rifle with pixie stix and shot my shirtless friend in the chest with it.

In my mind, it was going to be like some three stooges cloud of flour that would turn his face pink kind of like this. (Best I could find)

What happened instead was his entire chest was pouring blood and filled with burning pixie stix powder. I’m so glad I didn’t shoot him in the face. See, I was aiming for my brother who was the same height as me at the time and my buddy happened to be the one who came through the door.

He was a damn good friend too. The adults weren’t brought in on the matter. We cleaned the wounds with peroxide and waited years to tell anyone haha.

God I miss being a kid. I miss my old friends.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Learning is fun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spoken like a true Dwarf Fortress veteran

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Strike the earth!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We would've gotten along famously lol. We used to treat cartoons like instruction manuals for fun and cool shit, none of it worked like on TV of course, but still lots of (often painful) fun to be had.

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

Learned second hand that umbrellas also don't work well as parachutes. My cousin was the first hand ~~victim~~ experimenter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Die, Mary Poppins, die! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope it at least had the good manners to do the comical "collapse up / backwards on itself" thing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was a table height fall, roughly 1 meter, not enough for that to happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Lol eh, that sounds pretty hilarious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Were the stix still wrapped or did you dump the powder, and where did the burning come from in an air rifle?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Burning because sugar doesn't feel good in blood, not because it was on fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ooooohhhhhh ok I thought you/they meant like singed lol, that makes more sense!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm not the previous commenter, just an interpreter, but happy to help :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The powder was dumped into the air rifle and shot at my friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And someone else clarified "burning" as in sensation, not fire, that makes more sense! Still wondering how that managed to break skin but the burning I understand now lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

This is the answer. He said over and over again, “it buuuurns, oh god it buuuuurns!” Haha

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What am I looking at?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A shotgun shell loaded with Benadryl instead of buck shot (or rock salt)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Thanks, I thought that object was some kind of lipstick. :D

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My stupid ass thought it was a different kind of shot. Was like "wow, they over-salted that rim!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Same, dont feel stupid though. Not everyone lives somewhere that home defense is a concern.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm really dumb when it comes to guns. Would this actually work??

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes sort of. Anything loaded in a shell like this will come out of the barrel at high velocity and could definitely penetrate skin at close range. The pills will probably turn into fine powder, so the effective range is probably like 1m?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Based on some quick research, the difference is more than 5x.

Bio-availability via oral dosage is 40-60% whereas as topical is less than 10%.

Intravenous is 100% bio-availability so open wounds should help so coating buck shot with it as others have suggested should be affective. It's also immediate, oral is 1 to 4 hours.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So you're saying to load this shell second.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

… yea, in case the buckshot to the face doesn’t put them to sleep first

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That’s why you use rat or snake shot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Depends, if the pills stay whole (or in large enough chunks) they don't need shot to help them penetrate.

You just gotta be extra close if you want them to go see ~~Mr Toppum Hat~~ an old friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Or mix in some bird shot perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

If they mixed ground benadryl with oil and coated birdshot inside the cartridge with the mixture it might work. Not sure if the drug would enter the bloodstream of the home intruder in a large enough quantity to cause hallucinations though

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Overdosing on benydryll will make you halucinate. And not the fun kind

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

DELIRIUM !!! WOOO

I do not recommend experiencing it.

I do recommend reading on it, so people who are curious can change that opinion themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Benny overydose will have you seeing the shadowman

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

High doses of Benadryl can give you a REALLY dissociative high.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bang filled with boom, or a cartridge filled with ~~benzos~~ benadryl

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Much easier to buy them at Costco h they come in a bottle, so no blister packs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even better, get capsules and compress the powder in a shell like a breeching round.

Effective range goes way down, though

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But have you met the hat man yet?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure OP is the hat man after seeing this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Shoot them all. Let the Hat Man sort them out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Introduce intruders to the Hat Man

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I abused diphenhydramine on purpose several times during my younger years, and I had a pretty uncomfortable time every time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I mean, I know why they're breaking in now.

You're hoarding ingredients to make drugs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, it's humane. More or less.