On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Michael Kempen <[email protected]> wrote: > > A "Special Assignment" programme last year highlighted a particular herb > that is used by many burglars. They light it outside the home and the fumes > from it have a very powerful neutralising effect. It has apparently been > used with great success in the Woodstock area. Maybe the people at Woodstock > Police Station know something about it? I cannot for the life of me remember > the herb or plant that is used.
The only thing the program highlighted that I remember was that the "herb" as you put had no effect whatsoever. It was supposed to be Hyena fur if I remember correctly. try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_gas although no references are cited. It seems unlikely that this happens and in more likley hood is a bit of an urban myth. Look what happened when the Russians used a knock-out gas in that theater in 2002 - 139 dead civilians. I think that any gas pumped into a house to knock someone out is going to have to be nearly lethal in quantities to have an effect. Therefore you could expect deaths if this was a regular method of performing robberies. I can;t argue with the symptoms of the victims but really wanted to comment on the inaccuracy of the next post especially since the programme in question debunked that myth. But no matter how they did it it is certainly worrying the criminals are happy to steal stuff from right under our noses. Well done to the police for capturing the crooks before the owners were even aware of what happened. Trev --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
