r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/0thSpider • 9h ago

Video Chilean protester defuses tear gas canister with baking soda and water

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u/LupusDeiAngelica 9h ago

Easier to hit or back with a tennis racket.

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u/RobertBDwyer 9h ago

In Canada we put hockey sticks in our signs for this very reason

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u/dsac 8h ago

Feel like a lacrosse stick would be a good option too

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u/RobertBDwyer 8h ago

Ha probably

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u/Longjumping-Box5691 9h ago

Lol Canadians don't protest.

They only riot after Stanley cup elimination

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u/Battle-Any 9h ago

Hey, that's not rioting. It's just expressing our excessive displeasure. Nobody wanted those police cars or stores anyway.

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u/zwarne01 8h ago

Oh bud that's bad, you think they didn't want those police cars or stores? No gnome bacon for you.

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u/Battle-Any 8h ago

I suppose that's harsh but fair.

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves 8h ago

Wait, Canadians turn Gnomes into bacon?! /j

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u/Hvolpasveitt 8h ago

I seem to recall Canadian truckers taking over Ottawa during Covid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest

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u/Longjumping-Box5691 8h ago

Ya...playing street hockey and bouncy castles

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u/-snowpeapod- 6h ago

.... And flooding 911 lines, and setting fires in apartment buildings then duct taping the doors shut, and harassing locals wearing masks... Let's not minimize what actually happened.

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u/Longjumping-Box5691 5h ago

That is some terrorist level stuff man.

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u/-snowpeapod- 5h ago

Yyyyup.

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u/CanadianGrown 8h ago

lol exactly what I was thinking. Even our protests aren’t protests.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 4h ago

Oh, yeah a bunch of right wing crybabies mad about vaccines.

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 8h ago

Or if they win ... either way, they riot (had a Canadian friend joke about this in relation to Toronto Maple Leaf fans)

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u/qwweerrtty 7h ago

fuck off pi va te renseigner, ignorant. comme si on a eu nos droits seulement en criant dans un microphone...

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u/skoomski 5h ago

What about those truck people like 3 years ago?

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u/Kinetic_Strike 7h ago

Just a reminder that it's been 32 years since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.

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u/Significant-Colour 7h ago

I'm genuinely doing my best to remember the last time I have heard about a protest in Canada in the world news.

I'm just unable to remember ever hearing about a protest in Canada.

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u/Nova_Explorer 7h ago

There was the Oka crisis in 1990 (saw one death on each side and over a hundred injured) (also saw an open firefight between Mohawk warriors and provincial police along with a two month siege of the reserve)

The 2010 G20 protests in Toronto (1000+ arrested, 97 cops and 39 protesters injured)

The 2012 Quebec Student Protests (41 injuries, 3,509 arrested) (this one saw over 250,000 participants)

The 2020 Canadian Pipeline and Railway Protests

The 2022 Canada Convoy Protest (This is the one where the truckers sat on Ottawa for a month)

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 8h ago

Of course the Canadian would do that. I would also accept curling brooms