%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% %% ============================ %% %% THE HYDROCHLORIC ACID GOODY! %% %% ============================ %% %% %% %% An article from: %% %% The Poor Man's James Bond %% %% By: Kurt Saxon %% %% %% %% Typed by %% %% --==**>>THE REFLEX<<**==-- %% %% [Member: Omnipotent, Inc.] %% %% %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The hydrochloric acid goody is the most fun in the whole book. It takes many forms and works on the principle the hydrochloric acid reacts with aluminum powder, foil or metal, releasing a great, dark cloud or noxious gas which looks horrible and smells worse. Hydrochloric acid is used for killing algae in swimming pools and for cleaning tile and stone work. Where swimming pools are common it can be bought at the supermarket for less than a dollar a gallon. It is also sold at hardware stores. Being only 37% strength, it is seldom harmful to the skin but will eat through clothing like battery acid. Hydrochloric acid is also know as muriatic acid. On damp nights, a bottle of the acid alone, broken in the midst of a crowd, will form noxious clouds of chlorine gas. Scream "Poison gas!" and you will have a panic that will give you laughs for years. When you get some, open it up and give it a sniff. It won't hurt you because you couldn't stand to smell enough to be harmed. Then put a couple of square inches of aluminum foil in a can in your sink and pour some acid on the foil. If the acid bottle has been tightly capped the reaction of breaking down the aluminum and producing a dark noxious gas should start in about a minute. If the bottle has been setting for months, poorly capped, the reaction may be immediate. You can stop the action at any time by turning on the faucet and flooding the aluminum with water. When you have tested the reaction with foil, try it with powder and then with aluminum metal cut from pipe or a slab. The versatility of the hydrochloric acid goody is amazing and should keep you fascinated for hours. Say you're sitting in a booth in a gay bar. You have a brown paper bag at your feet by the wall. In the bag is a gallon wine bottle. Now, being a practical joker, you have poured about a pint of the hydrochloric acid into the bottle and nearly filled it with gasoline. The acid is on the bottom as it is heavier than the gasoline. When you finished your beer, you drop a few chunks of aluminum cut from a pipe into the bottle and cap it tightly. Then you swish out, so you won't be noticed. Soon the gas will burst the bottle and gasoline will be everywhere. And if many of the dear things are smoking there will be burning faggots galore. Burning faggots, get it? Oh well. Of course, the Militant's most common use of the hydrochloric acid goody is to clear areas of people he doesn't like. In a movie or a meeting hall a tin can full of aluminum powder, foil or chunks is put under a seat. The acid is in a bottle with its mouth covered with a couple of plastic bags held in place with a rubber band. You can also use a plain rubber or a balloon over the mouth of the bottle. The cover is pierced with a pencil and the bottle is upended into the can, after which, the Militant gets up and walks out. If the acid is old and reacts immediately, a wad of sponge is put over the aluminum, causing the needed delay. A person sitting beside the Militant would not notice anything, especially if something exciting was happening up front. By the time he noticed the odor the reaction would have left him with nothing to do but run squealing and pissing from the scene. The outside goody is great, too. It is used to break up parades and demonstrations and in riots, where it's every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. It is simply a pint or quart bottle (a quart is better) filled with goody and wrapped with several layers of aluminum foil and put in a paper sack. Now, say a group of Militants infiltrate a civilian parade at different points. At an agreed upon time they yell, "They're throwing things!" Then, while the other paraders are looking around and up, the Militants crash their outside goodies, still in the sacks, to the pavement. As the parade moves on, the Militants filter back to where the goodies are. When the reaction starts they scream, "Poison gas! Poison gas!" and panic the whole mob out of the action. The aluminum wrapped bottles have to be slammed down hard or they might now break. If it's something like a smoke or pipe bomb, there is a better way than to throw them down. It is a good thing to cut out one of your pants pockets for this one. The bomb is in a sack under your jacket. You light its fuse with a cigarette and slip the bomb into your pocket and let it drop down your pants leg. It is best not to wear boots with this one.