itsybitsy wrote:Why would I need to be anywhere near a check point?
Because they can deploy them during unrest or if there was an incident near you in a future break-down of civil order etc etc
What if you were in an enforced evacuation scenario for whatever reason, it is HIGHLY likely that armed military personell would be in-situ to enforce the situation.
Wonder what the effects inside one of those masks are, if a sweet wee old lady you were hassling at a checkpoint kicks you in the nuts at very close range?
Hmmm....well if I hadn't already bugged out by then I would probably have drunk the contents of my hip flask and tried to procure my own mask to make myself feel better.
Anyway - why the hell do they wear masks if there is no biological/chemical risk? To look hard and scare folk?
diamond lil wrote: Wonder what the effects inside one of those masks are, if a sweet wee old lady you were hassling at a checkpoint kicks you in the nuts at very close range?
LOLOL!!! Oh my god - I am actually doubled over thinking about that happening. A cross between Miss Marple and Lara Croft!
diamond lil wrote: Wonder what the effects inside one of those masks are, if a sweet wee old lady you were hassling at a checkpoint kicks you in the nuts at very close range?
The guys back up (number 2) would probably shoot you on the spot
itsybitsy wrote:I still want to know why the feel the need to wear them if there is no chemical/biological risk?
AS RD has said, Riot control methods such as CS Gas is often deployed in huge amounts, and what ever "other" stuff they might use to incapacitate people, and of course the "fear factor"
Wonder what the effects inside one of those masks are, if a sweet wee old lady you were hassling at a checkpoint kicks you in the nuts at very close range? 
