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This is one of those things that might just be good to know for whatever reason in the future. Thanks for the post.

As no one else mentioned it, depending on which country you are in, you should never try to pick up a tear gas canister shot/thrown at you as you might confuse it with a flash bang in the heat of the moment. There is a long list of people in France who tried to throw back flash bang grenades and lost a hand as a result.

Tear gas grenades used in France are GLI-F4's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLI-F4_grenade) and not flash bangs. It actually contains more TNT than CS gas to get a blast effect (similar to flash bangs)

Had to read up a bit, but either way i seem to have mixed something up. I did not know the French tear gas grenades also had TNT in them. But I read about such flashbang/teargas mixups before their introduction in 2011. The non french sources are a bit muddy, but Vital Michalon seems to have died at Superphénix due to a sock grenade damaging his lungs?

But nevertheless it seems i mixed up France with Switzerland here. Though I cant find the original source I had in mind, Guy Smallman had his leg severely injured in Geneva during the 2003 G8 summit by a shock grenade.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130507090403/http://www.nujadm...

Thanks for the heads up!

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