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kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:

>In article <66qaJB1w164w@obmarket> michaelc@obmarket (Michael Campbell) writes:
>>
>>On a related note, I've heard that modern fire alarms in buildings, (the
>>kind you set off, not the automatic kind) have the paint spraying
>>mechanisms similar to the ones in bank bags.  (Explode on you, literally
>>painting you red.  Sometimes blue.  Impossible to wash off).  True, not
>>true?

>Heh... sounds like a good idea for places where frequent false alarms are
>placed! (schools, dorms, etc.)

>I don't know if that's true, but I did here a somewhat similar story from
>my high school chemistry teacher: Their school was having problems with
><somebody> pulling false alarms.  So, they simply coated the pull levers
>with <some chemical> (a chemmies can probably say what) that turned the
>puller's fingers purple for days!

>Apparently they caught the scum who was doing it...

>						---Joel Kolstad

It was probably iodine crytals.