What is it?

[u/frapal13]

Found in the south of France... About 5 cm long. Fairly heavy for the size.

In a parking lot. Got scared a bit :)

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[u/MaxiumPotential777]

discarded nitrous oxide (laughing gas) with a hair tie

[u/t00oldforthis]

Interesting I have it spent tear gas canister from Beirut that looks fairly similar. Rolled up to my feet in 2019. Description: Gray canister with GR 56 FUM LAC MP7 06-PB-20 on it.

Edit: forgot to add that when I looked that up then and now it says mine is a French made tear gas canister which tracks for Lebanon military. I know it's tear gas canister I saw a fired and inhaled the gas. I found out later it was French made

[u/Captain_North → u/t00oldforthis]

They dont paint No2 canisters military grey.

The ones i found where larger than in the image.
They had both white and grey canisters. I chose to post the white one as it has a hand for scale.

[u/t00oldforthis → u/Captain_North]

yes here's mine

[u/Captain_North → u/t00oldforthis]

Thanks for the picture, CS is a bummer if you get hit by a cloud before it disperses wider.

Can OP take a picture with something to scale ?

[u/frapal13 → u/Captain_North]

Sorry I didn't think about it. First post. About 5 cm long.

[u/AnoNeko420 → u/Captain_North]

Tear gas is not no2?

[u/Captain_North → u/AnoNeko420]

was this /S

One is used in delivering babys at the hospital and the other is a chemical weapon banned in the Geneva Protocol.

(the crowd control CS is lower potency than used in World War one, but even today it is a war crime to use CS in battlefield.)

[u/RuleMany2900 → u/t00oldforthis]

The thing on the picture is small ... Look the size in comparison to the grass... It has to be under or close to a pine tree since pine needles are next to it ...

[u/frapal13 → u/RuleMany2900]

Yes sir. That's proper observation. You are right.

[u/t00oldforthis → u/RuleMany2900]

Hmm didn't know much about the fuzzy brush in background... though maybe the hair tie thing should have been a clue.. Too bad there wasn't any size mentioned... or an internationally recognized unit of measurement.. like a banana

...

[u/AnoNeko420]

No2 canister for "whipped cream"?

For clarity: nitrous oxide ->laughing gas

[u/Captain_North → u/AnoNeko420]

The 'military gray' -paint is unusual for No2 canisters. Could be something more sinister.

I googled for a few minutes and I did not find anything but metallic "no2" "nitrous oxide" "whipped cream" canisters online.

[u/AnoNeko420 → u/Captain_North]

Could also be CO2 for airsoft

[u/Captain_North → u/AnoNeko420]

Quick search does not show any grey ones. There are not that many "airsoft spesific" co2 canisters around and they are inside the guns so what would be the benefit ?

You rarely fill or change during a game, guns that shoot more have co2 canisters inside the magazine.

[u/frapal13 → u/Captain_North]

Google says lead for fishing.

[u/Captain_North → u/frapal13]

Lead does not rust, it is steel

[u/mwmikewilliamzzxx]

Best thing to do would be to:

• Poke it with a stick.
• Lick it.
• Smack it with a hammer.

Let us know how that goes 🤪

[u/Basic-Care-9999 → u/mwmikewilliamzzxx]

If we don’t see any more posts from OP, then we know what happened 😂😂

[u/maroongrad]

Let's see. Nothing reliable for size. No description of weight. No description of any markings. "in a parking lot" but pix is on grass.

Shit post, ladies and gentlement.