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  • It's cheap, easily available and incapacitates the victim in an instant.

    Put the horrible consequences to one side and you can see why they use it.

  • And carrying a bottle of liquid might be easier to get away with than a more obvious weapon like a knife.

    It's fucking horrible.

  • Would seem easier to just push the other rider over, no chance of getting caught with anything then.

  • Yeah, I wonder if there might not be a chilling calculation where they've concluded that acid removes the risk of the victim dying from head injury or bleeding to death from a stabbing.
    If so then I reckon there is an urgent need to 'upgrade' the punishment for an attack with corrosives to match that of attempted murder. Even if a permanent scar could be argued to be a superficial wound.

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