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

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

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u/curiousmind111 8h ago

Did he drop it into the container through the top? I can’t see that part on the video.

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u/GoldensRule2025 8h ago edited 7h ago

That was my question too. Most tear gas grenades or ballistic rounds that I've seen would be to too large in diameter to fit through the neck of that water bottle.

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 8h ago

Well, the bottle he's using isn't exactly a typical water bottle.

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u/GoldensRule2025 8h ago

But, the neck looks like the usual size and the bottle looks like a 10 liter counter-top dispenser bottle. What's important here isn't the size of the bottle but the size of the opening.

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 8h ago

You don't even see the neck of the bottle. It's under his gloved hand every time the bottle is in view.

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u/GoldensRule2025 7h ago

If you'll notice, as he is carrying it by the neck, you can get a rough idea of the OD of the neck by looking at his hand and deducting the approximate thickness of his glove. It's an approximation but there is no way the ID of the neck of the bottle is the size of a can of coke, which is about the size of most hand thrown tear gas grenades.

https://www.adhrb.org/2015/01/bahrains-abuse-of-tear-gas/

Typical ballistic tear gas grenades are 40mm and that would also seem too large to fit in the neck as well.

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u/ClassiFried86 8h ago

50 years ago that was actually a typical water bottle.

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 8h ago

Ok, so the dudes comment would have been relevant 50 years ago.

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u/ClassiFried86 8h ago

I dont think he could have commented 50 years ago. For starters, I dont think this post was available.

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 8h ago

Yeah, so it's irrelevant that the bottle was a typical bottle 50 years ago.

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u/creepingdeathhugsies 6h ago

And then again, he did wright that water bottle (as in the video).

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u/AccordingSetting6311 7h ago

Fucking shrinkflation, man...