For shame!
No, no, no… you’re thinking about Colorforms 
The chemical supply store cited above in #20 says it’s “sweet smelling.” À chacun son goût.
That article is wrong. It doesn’t take five minutes. A few deep breaths is all it takes.
I think Hollywood makes the process of forcing a person to take a few deep breaths while someone holds a weird smelling rag across your face from behind out to be a lot easier than it actually is. I can have trouble forcing a nose wipe on my two-year olds if they don’t want me to put a Kleenex on their face. I’d expect a lot of yelling (exhaling) and struggling if I snuck up a grabbed someone from behind in a modified choke/strangle hold rather than them holding still and taking those deep breaths unconcerned with what’s happening.
Why bother? You can get ether at the auto supply / hardware / et cetera in spray cans. It’s not medical di-ethyl ether, but good enough for thuggish purposes. :dubious:
For that matter, most of the nastier paint thinners … :rolleyes:
I find a garotte to be much more effective.
Actually, ether is pretty close to that – you can just spray some knockout gas and knock someone out, you don’t need someone to go to school to learn how to do it safely.
It is, like chloroform, highly and dangerously inflamable, which was one reason it fell out of use in modern electrically illuminated surgical theatres. In remained in use much longer in sun-lit open-air surgical theatres, were it’s safety and ease of use by people without decades of medical study was also important.
Only because you are going out of your way not to hurt them.
I saw a documentary once about a kidnapper. He explained he experimented on himself using home made chloroform. According to him it worked fairly quickly and he used it successfully on his victims.
And you can’t yell without first taking a deep breath. Or if you did, your next reflex would be to take a deep breath.
I’d like a cite for that, everything I’ve read about ether said that it takes application for 15-20 minutes to go unconscious from it. Administering something for 15-20 minutes does not qualify as ‘just spray some knockout gas’ in the sense I mean, I’m talking about the movie type thing where you spray an aerosol bottle at someone and they go down shortly, or where you pump it into a room and people drop before they can get up from the table and open the door. Ether isn’t easy to kill someone with accidentally, but it also isn’t fast acting and doesn’t work in movie-style knockout gas concentrations (like spraying an aerosol bottle at someone or tossing a ‘knockout gas grenade’ or venting into a room from a single tank).
I just finished reading The Devil in the White City, which is, in part, about H.H. Holmes, a serial killer living in Chicago in the early 1890’s. He used chloroform to kill some of his patients. While the description of the murders is conjecture, the author says it is based on expert testimony given at Holmes’ trial. The book describes the chloroform as being very cold, and that putting a rag doused in it over the victim’s mouth causes her to clench up and grab at his hand before she eventually goes limp a few minutes later.
John Wayne Gacy chloroformed one of his victims - resulting in permanent liver damage.
That sounds a lot more like it only took a few breaths, rather than 5 minutes. However, is dangerous.
I thought misled is what North Korea does to its enemies, i.e., “In response to U.S. sanctions, Kim misled Washington, DC. There were no survivors.”