Talk:Dye pack/Archive 1

Archive 1

March 2010

Whoa, 400 degrees? seriously? Why not just put a BOMB in it? Seriously, isn't the dye kind of redundant if it's going to be so hot the cash (and criminal) get burned?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 22:15, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

400 degrees is not hot enough to burn the money and if there is little enough material that reaches that temperature, it won't do much damage at all. Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 21:54, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Clarification Needed

Dye packs do not, in fact, explode. If they did, they would need to be registered with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms (BATF - the US Agency responsible for explosive devices) and each and every teller who did or might handle said dye-packs would have to have explosives training. The packs are inherently disarmed until they pass through the activating beam at the exit/perimeter of the building. The activating beam arms the device and starts the countdown (usually 60-120 seconds, not 10 as the article states). Bank employees are trained to lock the doors after a robber leaves, the dye packs have a delay long enough for the robber get to his getaway car or run on foot far enough away that he wouldn’t have time to turn back around and start shooting people upon realization he had been given dye packs. Dye packs do burn aggressively with dye impregnated smoke (often with a tear-gas like irritating substance included). The dye particles in the smoke stick to everything in the near vicinity making identification of the would-be robber and the stolen money much easier. The 400 degree temperature is necessary to generate the thick smoke required for adequate marking of numerous bill packages through any potential packaging material the robber might be using to carry the stolen money.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Legomancer (talk • contribs) 01:19, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Someone did change the article to say it merely releases an aerosol, but I replaced the "explode" terminology. It may not explode as defined by BATF, but by common parlance, the aerosol comes out quickly enough to be called explosive. Other things that explode and do not require explosives handling training are Pillsbury Crescent Roll packages and those confetti bombs people deploy at parties. I added a source for the explosive nature of the release. Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 21:54, 23 October 2016 (UTC)