Those of course are not rubber bullets.
Ear plugs rubber bullets.
Recently a huffington post journalist mistook foam ear plugs for rubber bullets.
There have been reports on the police firing rubber bullets and tear gas as part of unsuccessful attempts to diffuse the situation.
The internet has been funnier ever since.
Well reilly thought that he came across some of those rubber.
Rubber bullets ear plugs.
It s one of those.
Those are assault earplugs which have both the consistency and lethality of a marshmallow.
Well jerry miculek tests if foam ear plugs could even be used as rubber bullets.
He used a s w model 13 to test foam ear plugs against rubber bullets and rubber ear plugs.
To be fair to reilly he s done some decent reporting both for huffpo and on twitter on the race riots in ferguson missouri.
A huffington post reporter learned the hard way that everything you tweet is under scrutiny after mistaking a couple of earplugs for rubber bullets sunday morning.
89 get it as soon as tue oct 1.
The thing about not knowing that earplugs are not rubber bullets is that it makes it really hard to take any other reporting about police tactics much less guns seriously.
These earplugs were mistakenly reported as rubber bullets and sparked a hilarious response online.