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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Drugging somebody is a surprisingly delicate matter, and it can be difficult to get right without knowing facts about the people. Differences in body weight, medical history, constitution, gender, size, allergies, can all make the difference between whether a dosage works or not... and whether the dosage kills someone or not. Hence why there's an entire (and very lucrative) medical specialty in being an Anesthesiologist.
Plus there's supposed to be about 100-150 of them, no? I doubt they'd all sit down and eat at the same time, nor would they all drop at the same time, even if it were effective.
edited 5th Jan '16 8:05:49 PM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Ok, to be honest I haven't kept up with all the particulars here, so I'm not up to date on how many people are still there holing up in the building, or the exact size of the building itself.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Turns out Ammon Bundy took a $350,000 government loan only half a decade ago.
He's not anti government now, apparently.
On the "siege" word, that's indeed something that I've noticed at least in the English language.
And supporting this, you don't need "siege engines" to starve a fortress out; those are used for actually assaulting it.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Also while you don't need them they can be used, bombardment can soften an enemy up, weaken moral, damage supplies that they're using, eliminate leadership and spread disease. All that stuff can be done without an assault.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAnd fucking it up is what killed Michael Jackson.
"Yup. That tasted purple."Well, that and a doctor being stupid enough to take money to administer prescription anesthetic sedatives to someone outside a medical setting in the first place.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"What they want is to have their faces plastered all over the news as they're dragged from the building by SWAT officers, raving and screaming, with headlines like "Jackbooted Government Thugs Persecuting Innocent Citizens Without Cause!"
I don't think any of them planned to be doing this for the long haul. They're just trying to provoke a Boston Massacre scenario, preferably without the actual massacre.
edited 6th Jan '16 9:43:39 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Let's hope he doesn't. I still dream of a race in which a candidate is rewarded for saying positive things and penalized for saying negative things. I mean, I know what Trump's constituency is like, but excessive cynicism leads to fatalism, and fatalism leads to the Dark Side.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

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That's an assault, not a siege.
"Yup. That tasted purple."