Optimistic Paranoid
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A couple of people over in the "Is It Dangerous Being A Gay Woman On The Road At All?" thread recommended tha carrying of Wasp Spray for self defense. I didn't want to hijack that thread, so here's a separate post on the subject.
I don?t have too many hot button issues. One of the few I have, which I often run across on RV forums where they are discussing self-defense, is the advice to carry wasp spray to repel an assailant.
This drives me crazy. There is ample evidence that pepper spray actually works. This has been documented, over and over again, by police forces around the country. The people pushing wasp spray as being just as effective can never point to any studies showing that it actually works. They never say: ?I had to use it once when I was attacked, and it worked great!?
Here?s a link to a YouTube video from a pepper spray manufacturer where they did a head to head test of pepper spray vs wasp spray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uy9MnQfk_0&has_verified=1
Here?s a link to another YouTube video, done by a guy with 25 years experience in the pesticide field, where it clearly shows he was not incapacitated at all by the wasp spray.
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWj4xuacbyY]
Here?s a link to a news report concerning a home invasion in WA where the husband tried to use wasp spray on the intruder. It had no effect at all! The wife ended up stabbing the intruder to death with a steak knife to save her husband!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529190/Intruder-killed-Crossfit-owners-planned-abduct-rape-wife-attacked-hours-earlier.html
Please, Please, STOP spreading this stupid myth!
I don?t have too many hot button issues. One of the few I have, which I often run across on RV forums where they are discussing self-defense, is the advice to carry wasp spray to repel an assailant.
This drives me crazy. There is ample evidence that pepper spray actually works. This has been documented, over and over again, by police forces around the country. The people pushing wasp spray as being just as effective can never point to any studies showing that it actually works. They never say: ?I had to use it once when I was attacked, and it worked great!?
Here?s a link to a YouTube video from a pepper spray manufacturer where they did a head to head test of pepper spray vs wasp spray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uy9MnQfk_0&has_verified=1
Here?s a link to another YouTube video, done by a guy with 25 years experience in the pesticide field, where it clearly shows he was not incapacitated at all by the wasp spray.
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWj4xuacbyY]
Here?s a link to a news report concerning a home invasion in WA where the husband tried to use wasp spray on the intruder. It had no effect at all! The wife ended up stabbing the intruder to death with a steak knife to save her husband!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529190/Intruder-killed-Crossfit-owners-planned-abduct-rape-wife-attacked-hours-earlier.html
Please, Please, STOP spreading this stupid myth!