# "Protesters" with bandana covered faces

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protesters-with-bandana-covered-faces/621568>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 10, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protesters-with-bandana-covered-faces/621568 "2012-05-10T23:33:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protesters-with-bandana-covered-faces/621568/21 "2012-05-11T16:34:49Z")

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> [@Heracles](#):
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> Isn’t there a notion of covering your face to better endure tear gas and mace?

Yes. I remember a college-days protests where I’d been advised to take one for that purpose. Not owning a bandada, I grabbed a large cloth napkin from a dining hall or a party. At the protest people applied lemon juice to my “bandada” and explained that would help filter out tear gas. I remember being very skeptical that was going to work if push came to shove, which fortunately it didn’t.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protesters-with-bandana-covered-faces/621568/22 "2012-05-11T16:39:16Z")

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> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Next thing you know, they’ll be asking for our lupines.

One of the funniest and most obscure.

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**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protesters-with-bandana-covered-faces/621568/23 "2012-05-11T16:43:18Z")

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> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> Yes, for being part of Occupy. I’m sure that was it.

We’re talking about bandanas, not why he wanted his identity concealed. So I gave the short version.

If you must know, you can PM me. This thread doesn’t need petty political disputes.

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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protesters-with-bandana-covered-faces/621568/24 "2012-05-11T18:12:17Z")

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In London demonstrators have been known to cover their faces so that whenhopefully (for them )it later turns into a riot they can’t be identified as looters, people commiting assaults and criminal damage.

Well that and the notoriously fascistic police of course who are likely to round up their families in the early hours of the morning and then take them off to Death Camps.

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