Is it more or less humane?

As a child I loaded an air rifle with pixie stix and shot my shirtless friend in the chest with it.
In my mind, it was going to be like some three stooges cloud of flour that would turn his face pink kind of like this. (Best I could find)
What happened instead was his entire chest was pouring blood and filled with burning pixie stix powder. I’m so glad I didn’t shoot him in the face. See, I was aiming for my brother who was the same height as me at the time and my buddy happened to be the one who came through the door.
He was a damn good friend too. The adults weren’t brought in on the matter. We cleaned the wounds with peroxide and waited years to tell anyone haha.
God I miss being a kid. I miss my old friends.
- Learning is fun.
  
  Spoken like a true Dwarf Fortress veteran
- We would've gotten along famously lol. We used to treat cartoons like instruction manuals for fun and cool shit, none of it worked like on TV of course, but still lots of (often painful) fun to be had.
  Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.
  
  Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.
  Learned second hand that umbrellas also don't work well as parachutes. My cousin was the first hand ~~victim~~ experimenter
- Were the stix still wrapped or did you dump the powder, and where did the burning come from in an air rifle?
  
  Burning because sugar doesn't feel good in blood, not because it was on fire.
  
  The powder was dumped into the air rifle and shot at my friend.
- We just used pellets or bbs and wore Canadian tuxedos. No head shots allowed. Airsoft and paintball didn't exist. But air rifles did.
  
  Bb gun fights were the best. Topped only by Roman candle fights, and we had some epic, like 10v10 ones spanning entire parks.

What am I looking at?
- A shotgun shell loaded with Benadryl instead of buck shot (or rock salt)
  
  Thanks, I thought that object was some kind of lipstick. :D
  
  My stupid ass thought it was a different kind of shot. Was like "wow, they over-salted that rim!"
  
  I'm really dumb when it comes to guns. Would this actually work??
- Overdosing on benydryll will make you halucinate. And not the fun kind
  
  DELIRIUM !!! WOOO
  I do not recommend experiencing it.
  I do recommend reading on it, so people who are curious can change that opinion themselves.
  
  Wouldn't having a home intruder hallucinating terrifying things be worse than the alternative? In a fight or flight scenario, they may be more inclined to fight...
- Benny overydose will have you seeing the shadowman
- High doses of Benadryl can give you a REALLY dissociative high.
- Bang filled with boom, or a cartridge filled with ~~benzos~~ benadryl

Why the fuck are you people using sleeping pills as antihistamines?
- Diphenhydramine is a better antihistamine than it is a sleeping pill
  
  Not if you want to walk the nightmare astral plane
- We people as in Americans?
  
  Yeah, as in America.
  Benadryl doesn't contain anything like that in the UK, it's got Acrivastine instead (at least for the "rapid relief" stuff).
  Cetirizine and Loratadine are the other generics, I think. I don't find those as effective for my needs. They last longer but take longer to get to work. None of these make you drowsy.
  You can only get diphenhydramine here as a sleeping aid as far as I can tell. I'm sure it works as an antihistamine as well, but I don't know why a country so car dependent as the US would decide that hayfever sufferers should have the same driving skills as a drunk.
  
  No, nothing to do with Americans. This is discussing medication.

Much easier to buy them at Costco h they come in a bottle, so no blister packs.
- Even better, get capsules and compress the powder in a shell like a breeching round.
  Effective range goes way down, though
  
  Ranges aren't all that long inside a house generally, so I wouldn't worry about effective range.

But have you met the hat man yet?
- Pretty sure OP is the hat man after seeing this

Shoot them all. Let the Hat Man sort them out.

Introduce intruders to the Hat Man

I abused diphenhydramine on purpose several times during my younger years, and I had a pretty uncomfortable time every time.

Can't find a clip but this reminds me of the Pirate from Venture bros that was hooked on tranq darts.
- That's hilarious. Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of when wild animals get trap-happy.

I mean, I know why they're breaking in now.
You're hoarding ingredients to make drugs.

Yes, it's humane. More or less.

It's funny how scared you are