When protesting something by novel means it pays to understand the tools you employ.
Carrying signs, shouting, blocking roads, gathering outside buildings, and so forth goes back centuries. Other than getting clocked by a cop or errant bottle, the physical risk isn't particularly high (in most Western countries, anyway).
Lately, glueing the palm of one's hand to something immobile with so-called "superglue" has become fashionable among protesters. I suppose it's intended to prolong the protest enough for news reporters to arrive, as opposed to being whisked away by the police after only a few minutes. (Which would make spending a night in jail not particularly worth it.)
In any event, not happy with even that, some guy in Germany thought he'd show everyone how it was TRULY done.
He found a small chuckhole in the road, filled it with sand, poured in a pint or so of superglue, gave it a stir, and stuck his hand into the "cake batter" that resulted.
Hm.
So-called "superglue" is pure acrylic plastic. You can make materials like wood into gleaming blocks and slabs of rock-hard stuff suitable for kitchen counter tops by submerging them in it. A process called "stabilization".
And sand exists because it's the leavings of eons of environmental erosion. i.e. the stuff that COULDN'T be dissolved or otherwise broken down. And why is that? Because it's really, really hard. Mostly quartz. Harder than any cutting tools except tungsten carbide ones, in fact.
You can see where this is heading, I'm sure.
The road had to be cut with an angle grinder and assorted power tools to simply get the Quartz Block With a Hand In It + Attached Protester free, and the liklihood that his hand will live long enough (contact hypothermia, prolonged compression, etc. all FUBAR blood supply) to somehow be removed from the block itself is low.
Moral of the story: Darwin never sleeps, no matter how in the right you think you are.
Carrying signs, shouting, blocking roads, gathering outside buildings, and so forth goes back centuries. Other than getting clocked by a cop or errant bottle, the physical risk isn't particularly high (in most Western countries, anyway).
Lately, glueing the palm of one's hand to something immobile with so-called "superglue" has become fashionable among protesters. I suppose it's intended to prolong the protest enough for news reporters to arrive, as opposed to being whisked away by the police after only a few minutes. (Which would make spending a night in jail not particularly worth it.)
In any event, not happy with even that, some guy in Germany thought he'd show everyone how it was TRULY done.
He found a small chuckhole in the road, filled it with sand, poured in a pint or so of superglue, gave it a stir, and stuck his hand into the "cake batter" that resulted.
Hm.
So-called "superglue" is pure acrylic plastic. You can make materials like wood into gleaming blocks and slabs of rock-hard stuff suitable for kitchen counter tops by submerging them in it. A process called "stabilization".
And sand exists because it's the leavings of eons of environmental erosion. i.e. the stuff that COULDN'T be dissolved or otherwise broken down. And why is that? Because it's really, really hard. Mostly quartz. Harder than any cutting tools except tungsten carbide ones, in fact.
You can see where this is heading, I'm sure.
The road had to be cut with an angle grinder and assorted power tools to simply get the Quartz Block With a Hand In It + Attached Protester free, and the liklihood that his hand will live long enough (contact hypothermia, prolonged compression, etc. all FUBAR blood supply) to somehow be removed from the block itself is low.
Moral of the story: Darwin never sleeps, no matter how in the right you think you are.
