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09-14-09, 08:48 AM #1LRAD at San Diego Townhall
http://eastcountymagazine.org/?q=node/1874
It's a long article. But here is my favorite quote.
East County Magazine contacted Lieutenant Anthony Ray at the Lemon Grove sheriff substation. “I was the incident commander,” said Ray, who confirmed that the device was an LRAD but was not sure of the model. “It’s a really loud speaker,” he said, adding that the device is used to assure that announcements can be heard over the din of a crowd. “We’ll often use a helicopter, but this is something portable,” he explained. The device has also been present at a sand-castle building competition in Imperial Beach and could be deployed at any large event locally, since the Sheriff’s office is sometimes subcontracted by other cities within San Diego County to provide security.
Asked if he was aware that the device had a deterrent capability that includes a directed sound loud enough to cause hearing loss, he replied, “You mean like they use in Iraq? I can’t imagine we’d do that, because it would hurt our own people at the same time…I can’t believe that we would use the kind of thing on a crowd that the military does,” he said, adding that the deputy on the Rhino was not wearing protective earphones. “There were deputies right in front, too,” he observed, but added that he would have to “go home and look this up on Google” to learn more.
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09-14-09, 09:47 AM #2
Re: LRAD at San Diego Townhall
He also denied that the company’s LRADs can cause hearing problems or other health concerns. “No, not true,” he said. “You’d have to be in close proximity for several minutes in order to have any damage at all. If you willingly stand in that beam for an extended situation, then that’s your choice. There’s no way a large crowd would stay.”
I'm sure that a large crowd would not stay long enough to cause any damage to the people closest to the device...what a load shit.
This is a potentially deadly weapon and these clowns treat it like a toy.
If you set this off in any kind of constrained area people would get trampled trying to get away from it, but our lil stormtroopers act as if that is just tough shit.
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09-14-09, 02:55 PM #3
Re: LRAD at San Diego Townhall
Well. I don't really see how this is worse than having a bunch of cops stationed somewhere wielding guns. Its just another thing that can hurt people but probably won't be used that way. In other words, if some crazy thing happened, and the government or someone wanted to cause chaos and death in a crowd, they could just shoot them. No need for a big-ass speaker. Just so long as these people realize its potential harmfulness it should be okay.
PS. PLEASE let me play some Pantera through that thing. Hardcore!! \m/
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