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[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago

Can't find a clip but this reminds me of the Pirate from Venture bros that was hooked on tranq darts.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of when wild animals get trap-happy.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ksigley@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago
[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Spoken like a true Dwarf Fortress veteran

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Strike the earth!

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Die, Mary Poppins, die! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Lol eh, that sounds pretty hilarious

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

We just used pellets or bbs and wore Canadian tuxedos. No head shots allowed. Airsoft and paintball didn't exist. But air rifles did.

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Bb gun fights were the best. Topped only by Roman candle fights, and we had some epic, like 10v10 ones spanning entire parks.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago
[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 1 week ago

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

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

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

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago

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

[-] HertzDentalBar 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

So you're saying to load this shell second.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Mini@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

That’s why you use rat or snake shot

[-] spooky2092 4 points 1 week 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.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Or mix in some bird shot perhaps?

[-] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week 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

[-] hash@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 week ago

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

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 1 week 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.

Wouldn't having a home intruder hallucinating terrifying things be worse than the alternative? In a fight or flight scenario, they may be more inclined to fight...

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Maybe their kit included a scarecrow mask from the Batman movies

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly what I thought lol

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Benny overydose will have you seeing the shadowman

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 1 week ago

Why the fuck are you people using sleeping pills as antihistamines?

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Diphenhydramine is a better antihistamine than it is a sleeping pill

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Not if you want to walk the nightmare astral plane

[-] chakh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

We people as in Americans?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, as in America.

Benadryl doesn't contain anything like that in the UK, it's got Acrivastine instead (at least for the "rapid relief" stuff).

Cetirizine and Loratadine are the other generics, I think. I don't find those as effective for my needs. They last longer but take longer to get to work. None of these make you drowsy.

You can only get diphenhydramine here as a sleeping aid as far as I can tell. I'm sure it works as an antihistamine as well, but I don't know why a country so car dependent as the US would decide that hayfever sufferers should have the same driving skills as a drunk.

[-] chakh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Because regulations in America almost always favor big corporations and not consumers/independent businesses.

I've lived both in UK and US and the quality of food, medication, etc is night and day. You can compare the ingredients of big mac in US and UK and you'll see what I mean.

I actually recently watched a great show called "Dopesick" that tells the story of how American opioid crisis began. I think it does a great job explaining how stupid and ineffective FDA really is.

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

No, nothing to do with Americans. This is discussing medication.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Introduce intruders to the Hat Man

[-] ivanovsky@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

It's funny how scared you are

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