Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs
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Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs
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#2> "Boston Man Invents Straws And Cups That Detect Date Rape Drugs"
Invents? I thought this has been around for quite awhile now? I remember hearing about things like this years ago. Maybe it was just the idea, and had not yet been actually a physical product though?
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#31. Awesome invention, straws that detect adulterants and change colour
2. Obviously people do get drugged occasionally, the inventor seems to have had it happen to him
3. Unfortunately there seems to be no real evidence that GHB or ketamine are often used in sexual assaults, and even Rohypnol which has the worst reputation has not often been detected. A straw that could detect a drink that's stronger than you think it is might be more useful, AFAICT the number one date-rape drug is alcohol.
(I want to be absolutely clear here, I'm not saying date rape doesn't happen, I'm not saying that some really nasty people don't deliberately get others into pliable states to take advantage of them, but AFAICT the use of drugs in the way the media likes to run scare stories about is very uncommon)
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#4Wonder what the false positive / false negative rate is?
Either one could lead to a dangerous situation.
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#5If you find yourself going to a venue where you think one of these would be handy, shouldn't you just not go?
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#6Clubs and bars tend to be dark and the patrons inebriated. I have to imagine that those factors would go an awful long way toward nullifying any benefit of this stuff.
Also, if the technology involved is anything like the color-changing "field test" kits that cops use, false positives will be a problem.
An associate of mine was booked for "heroin possession" when an overzealous cop decided to test his aspirin during a traffic stop - he was released the instant he got a hold of a lawyer.
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#7If you find yourself going to a venue where you think one of these would be handy, shouldn't you just not go?
It can happen anywhere, it's not just in seedy bars, I've know it to happen(at least here in the UK) in clubs with otherwise good reputations.
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#8Wonder what the false positive / false negative rate is? Either one could lead to a dangerous situation.
One of those situations is more dangerous than the other, I would say.
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#91. Awesome invention, straws that detect adulterants and change colour 2. Obviously people do get drugged occasionally, the inventor seems to have had it happen to him 3. Unfortunately there seems to be no real evidence that GHB or ketamine are often used in sexual assaults, and even Rohypnol which has the worst reputation has not often been detected. A straw that could detect a drink that's stronger than you think i…
None of these "date rape drugs" even come close to comparing to alcohol.
It's the original and most effective date rape drug, and no one even really objects to people using it for that purpose.
Getting people drunk to get them to sleep with you isn't really /wrong./ Once you start using scary drugs that no one has ever heard of, then wow, that's something we can condemn. Especially since no one we know would ever do such a thing.
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#10If you find yourself going to a venue where you think one of these would be handy, shouldn't you just not go?
It can happen anywhere, it's not just in seedy bars, I've know it to happen(at least here in the UK) in clubs with otherwise good reputations.
That makes sense, for the same reason that pickpockets rarely look like seedy hoodlum types, and instead blend in with the crowd.