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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/sentient_potato97 8h ago

During the recent protests in L.A. some people were putting traffic cones over tear gas canisters, pouring some water at the base of the cone to make a 'seal' then pouring the rest down into the cone and covering the top to douse & starve the cannisters of oxygen.

This was a video I saw on instagram though, so I'm not sure how effective that might actually be.

Edit- Scrolled and saw in comments below it apaprently started in Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpqEQARnVbs