Holiday Yasumi's Twitter Shorts - Ch. 1153 - If Something Like That Were Done to Me

[davidna]

Is it even possible to knock someone out IRL with only a cloth soaked in chloroform?

Apparently it takes like five minutes

 

[Basic_human]

I was about to send this image

 

[Basic_human]

The Chiba Police will probably show up and take her away before anything happens.

Why is Chiba police so effective tho?

 

[Nuclear_Feacesist]

I was about to send this image

Wheres it from lol

 

[Edo4169]

Is it even possible to knock someone out IRL with only a cloth soaked in chloroform?

It is possible, but need longer time than what the film told us.

 

[obsidianpassion]

Is it even possible to knock someone out IRL with only a cloth soaked in chloroform?

Asking for a friend?

 

[Arexty]

You know if it were me she wouldn't have needed the chloroform...

 

[thycondrius]

I dont think her intentions are pure

 

[panel1]

wow that escalated fucking fast

 

[Pilomotor]

Bingo. Chloroform fell out of favor as an anesthetic because the gap between the lower limit/ therapeutic effects and the upper limit/adverse effects is very small. Even during the mid-late 1800's when chloroform was given with specialized masks and careful dosage from doctors, about 1-in-1000 people anesthetized with it would drop dead from cardiac arrhythmia. If you have a large blob of it on a handkerchief and it's strong enough to knock someone out, they're probably not waking back up.

Also, today-I-found-out that the trope of it being a "magic knock-out drug used by criminals" (despite it being slow-acting IRL) goes back to at least 1865, as debunked in a The Lancet medical journal from that year:

It's my understanding that chloroform's use in fiction is one of those things that writers get wrong on purpose, similar to how successful suicide via wrist-cutting is usually depicted in movies with the cut being made perpendicular to the ulna instead of parallel. The writers deliberately obscure the facts to avoid that knowledge being harmfully misused by people imitating what they saw in fiction. In the case of chloroform, it would be used in fiction in place of more effective inhaled anesthetics like diethyl ether or various fluorinated hydrocarbons, so that would-be kidnappers might botch their kidnappings by trying to use chloroform, giving their victims a better chance escaping and hopefully notifying the authorities.

Of course, there are plenty of depictions in fiction (including this one) where it's simply a rag dampened with an unknown chemical, thereby allowing the audience to draw their own conclusions based on their prior understanding of the subject.