norfolkenchants
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I think that the problem for most of us is that The Royal College of Anaesthetists, do know more than most of us.
It is them stating that gas would not have been the cause for your malaise.
There is no gas known to them, that could produce the effects described.
As for the French police? The same as ours, normal people who have been on a training course for a few weeks. So to be fair not qualified to make a medical diagnosis, so their opinion on a medical matters is null and void However:-
Were you hospitalised? I would imagine if the Police thought that you had been poisoned and robbed they would have requested an ambulance, you would have been hospitalised and toxicology reports ordered. and, as with a general aesthetic you have been medically observed for a period of time before you would be released.
Logically can you imagine the consequences of a local Policeman, thinking that you had been gassed, rendered unconscious and robbed, doing nothing and perhaps allowing someone's death due to the their inaction?
The other strange phenomenon, is the location of alleged attacks! Northern Spain and France and it is always British people and Germans. Why don't such attacks take place in the USA? for example?
Russians tried it in Chechenya of course, in the Dubrovka Theater. Circa 850 hostages, in one building. 40 terrorists died and 130 hostages died along with them: Gassed! That's 20% and the rest hospitalised!
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So, until the Royal College of Anaesthetists publish a paper to explain that such gasses do exist, and randomly squirting, any quantity, of "Gas A" into a well ventilated, motorhome, caravan or apartment, of various volumes, will, render various occupants, of varying ages and body masses unconscious (but not the thieves[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]) for sufficient time for a theft to be committed, but, no one will be hurt or killed in the process I will continue to say the same thing to our customers
Gas attacks do not happen.
That is just my opinion, based on scientific evidence and deaths, but still an opinion, worth no more or less than yours based on your personal experiences and anecdotal evidence, opinions, we are all entitled to them
Eddie
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You may be interested in this article from The Gaurdian newspaper but don't let facts get in the way of your opinions.
'Sleeping gas' thieves target super-rich at Italian billionaires' resort
Burglars suspected of using sleeping gas to ensure they are not disturbed during break-ins on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian, Tuesday 30 August 2011 17.22 BST
Built in the 1960s by Prince Karim Aga Khan, Porto Cervo has long been a playground for the super-rich. Photograph: Oliviero Olivieri/Getty Images
Police in the billionaires' retreat of Porto Cervo on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda believe thieves who made off with €315,000 (£280,000) in cash and jewels used sleeping gas on their victims to ensure they were not disturbed during the break-in.
Similar robberies have been reported this summer in France and Spain.
The burglaries in Porto Cervo, which took place last week, were only disclosed by police on Tuesday. The thieves sneaked into the rented holiday villa of a Milanese pharmaceuticals tycoon and left with a haul worth around €300,000. The businessman's 42-year-old wife, her mother and their daughter were all in the house, along with a servant, but no one heard the burglars, even though they took the windows off their hinges to get in.
At the villa next door, two holidaymakers found a watch and €15,000 in cash missing. They told police they had woken up feeling weak and dazed.
In July, "gassing gangs" were reported to be targeting caravans and camper vans in France. Thieves sprayed sleeping gas in through air vents before breaking in.
Earlier this month, at least six houses on an estate at Rincón de la Victoria on Spain's Costa del Sol were burgled by thieves thought to have used sleeping gas. One of the residents, José Luis Gómez, was quoted as saying the victims had woken "dizzy, with headaches, vomiting and stinging throats".
Porto Cervo was built in the 1960s by Prince Karim Aga Khan and it has long been a playground for the super-rich. Earlier this month,the sign at the entrance to the Costa Smeralda was altered, apparently by an insufficiently prosperous holidaymaker armed with a spray can. The "Smeralda" was deleted and replaced with the word "troppo", so it now reads in Italian: "Costs too much."