I'm pretty sure that this poor man has been through more pain than he deserves, and certainly jail isn't going to teach him anymore of a lesson than BEING ROASTED ALIVE. If that cop wasn't taught what could happen when his pepper spray hits fire, he's not to blame. This would destroy you inside as a human being, if you honestly didn't know better and did this to someone. Should have known something is different than knowing and having intent.
It's possible yes, training is only as good as the person training you. I've been trained by certain individuals who have left out outrageous amounts of information. Sometimes we start off working with one product, that's completely safe and switch to a product that's not...without even knowing. Or important information just gets left out, and barely covered. I'm just saying before you judge and say he did it on purpose, maybe he didn't. Who really would want to burn someone alive knowing what they're doing, in front of hundreds of people.
The man with the pepper spray isn't actually a police officer, he's a security guard, which makes it even more likely he didn't realize what would happen.
The fan, who really should have kn5better than to climb on scaffolding with a flare in the first place and antagonize the guards, only recieved minor injuried.
I completely agree, and if he knew better he should be held accountable. We don't always get taught the way we should be though. People miss, teachers skip over stuff because they took too much time on something else, or they think you'll learn from the next guy. I do feel absolutely terrible for this poor man, he's known more pain than anyone should.
He had minor injuries. The flames didn't actually take hold or engulf him. He didn't even go to the hospital. He fell down, got up, went back to his seat, And probably never tried to show off with a flare again.
It's surprisingly hard to set someone (or something) on fire with a flame "mist"; you'll need an actual concentration of heat and/or fuel to set something alight. If you put alcohol in a spray bottle and shoot it through a candle onto paper ~12 inches away not much will happen. A big fire-puff will appear but that's mostly fluff, it's not a "stream" of fire like how some flamethrowers shoot flaming liquid. Same with the picture, this was probably the first second of spraying the guy and then the sprayer probably released the trigger as soon as he realized what happened. A bit of singing is expected and a lot of adrenaline but not much actual damage should have happened.
If you compress pure liquid and try and shoot it out you'll get a stream of liquid. I think methane or propane is often the propellant or at least used to, but don't quote me. Could be a more benign gas nowadays like nitrogen but that has a higher molar mass than methane so it won't produce as much pressure for the same mass.
Yes most aerosols use propane because it dissolves better and they can pack more in the can.
Also cologne and body spray usually has an alcohol base regardless of what the propellant is.
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Most pepper sprays aren't flammable as seen on Mythbusters so the cop might not have know what was going to happen. could be he's using outdated equipment but I don't know
That's probably not pepper spray; almost all are non-flammable (unless this is not in America, and it doesn't look like it is, then all bets are off). This was not always the case. Pepper spray used to be formulated with an alcohol base so it would not freeze, until an incident where a mentally unstable man was sprayed but still didn't submit, causing the officers to taser him. He went up like a Roman candle. This is likely some form of teargas or mace.
The fan, who really should have kn5better than to climb on scaffolding with a flare in the first place and antagonize the guards, only recieved minor injuried.
Also cologne and body spray usually has an alcohol base regardless of what the propellant is.