Loudhailer or weapon?


	Loudhailer or weapon?

mona

5-14-2008 12:02 PM

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mona says:

Very interesting read. Does anyone know more about this?

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5-14-2008 1:54 PM

alanocu

great to see you on the site again stranger!

5-14-2008 4:20 PM

mona

Cheers Alan,
great to be back, too

5-15-2008 10:15 PM

righthand

So it's a 'loud tool'. I know a few of those too.

5-15-2008 11:17 PM

BartendingBear

I wonder what a set of Bose noise canceling headphones would do as a counter-measure to something like this.

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