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I heard he was trying to fuse his bones with adamantium like wolverine but failed miserably and he got caught.
You are trying to walk both sides of the fence I think. The only thing that I ever saw conclusively was that the pads weren't 'new'/'fresh'/'clean' gauze. Having been used before they had absorbed sweat and were heavily compacted. Being used they found 'traces' of crap in them that while found in plaster is also found in hand creams/etc... So yeah, they were illegal. The DA made a big stink about filing charges and quietly disappeared. I have never seen anything half way official that used the word "plaster". Besides, Rezno? or whatever his name was, admitted to using plaster and his hands weren't burned off. As I've said before, I'd love to be able to hold these things myself.
The girl in your story encased her hands in a bucket of plaster. That is much more than sweat mixed with the substance dripping onto the skin. That small amount would not be enough to "fry" somebody's hands. Fail!
What you copy and pasted shows that is can be in direct contact with the skin. You don't want a huge amount. It even says you want thin cloth layers with plaster.
Sigh - http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/stats_regs/regulations.shtml#323 It was a "plaster like substance" If it turned his hand into a living brass knuckle or not is irrelevant. The substance is neither tape nor 10' of gauze bandage and therefore is illegal on the hand. End of story. That said: He's done his year and didn't fight during that suspension. Let him fight.