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Some women leaving the gun at home for a can of bug spray
WBTV.com ^ | 02.20.13 | Sean Edmondson

Posted on 02/24/2013 11:02:23 AM PST by Daffynition

ST. LOUIS (WFIE) -

Some women in St. Louis are ready to take aim and fire if confronted by an attacker, but their weapon of choice isn't a gun.

Instead, they're turning to a common household product to protect themselves.

It's barely seven bucks, but it makes Joy Gridnick Christensen feel a whole lot safer.

"And we keep it right here so if you came to the counter with the cash register I would just get this on you and zap you right in the face," said Christensen.

As owner of the Fountain on Locust, she's armed all her employees with wasp spray in case of an attacker and she's not the only St. Louisan using this self defense tactic.

South County resident Carol Dickinson hasn't left home without it since buying a can about a month ago.

"I keep a can of wasp spray in my car in the console where the cup holder is," said Dickinson.

Her friend sent her an email suggesting she try it.

"I can't shoot a gun but I can shoot wasp spray," said Dickinson. "

"Having a gun makes you have to have all sorts of other responsibilities," says Christensen.

And these women say it's how the spray shoots that appeals to them.

(Excerpt) Read more at wbtv.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; bugspray; guncontrol; secondamendment; selfdefense; waspspray; women
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To: Daffynition

some women are stupid. My .40 XDM beats wasp spray hands down. And it even works if the wind is blowing my direction!


21 posted on 02/24/2013 11:33:47 AM PST by Mom MD (A million people attended Obamas inauguration. 14 of them actually missed work)
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To: Daffynition

My wife prefers .380 for spraying bugs.


22 posted on 02/24/2013 11:36:15 AM PST by dinodino
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To: ruesrose
hair spray would do the job too.

Only if you hold a flame in front of it ;)

23 posted on 02/24/2013 11:36:27 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Daffynition
**federal law prohibits the use of any pesticide "in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." **

Well, it is a "pest"icide.

24 posted on 02/24/2013 11:40:21 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: Daffynition

Ammonia. Just saying.


25 posted on 02/24/2013 11:40:50 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Daffynition


One step closer buster, and I bring out the bug spray!
26 posted on 02/24/2013 11:40:54 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Daffynition

While this has advantages and disadvantages, we should be open minded enough to realize that guns also have advantages and disadvantages, as do knives, swords and other bladed weapons, and blunt objects and other weapons.

I got a very good lesson in psychology years ago, when I saw some capable karate students in a serious ring fight, in which they were required to wear boxing gloves. But other than that it was pretty much MMA. They were used to bare knuckle fighting, and instead of kicking, which they were good at, they were focused instead on the gloves, and did miserably. Finally one of them ignored the gloves, and kicked his opponent senseless.

It taught me that a weapon can be a serious crutch, if you are too reliant on just it. It is far better to think outside the box, and imagine your weapon as just part of the scenario.

And *all* weapons have advantages and disadvantages.

In World War II, the OSS, predecessor of the CIA, taught its agents that *anything* can be used as a weapon, and that they needed to imagine how the most ordinary things can be used as weapons. So that no matter the circumstances, they would be mentally prepared to fabricate a weapon.

This is also an important defensive lesson as well, as your opponent might do the same.


27 posted on 02/24/2013 11:44:16 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: Daffynition

Next idea, ladies?

28 posted on 02/24/2013 11:44:43 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Daffynition; null and void

wasp spray is all well and good but what happenz if your attacker is black


29 posted on 02/24/2013 11:47:24 AM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Daffynition
"I keep a can of wasp spray in my car in the console where the cup holder is," said Dickinson.

Might work for Yankees. Won't work in Texas. On the other hand, you won't have to worry about bugs in your car after it explodes.

30 posted on 02/24/2013 11:49:43 AM PST by PAR35
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To: bigheadfred

The newspapers will report your death at the hands of a white Hispanic?


31 posted on 02/24/2013 11:57:00 AM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

**federal law prohibits the use of any pesticide “in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.” **

Yes. Read the label. I would tend to use something for cockroaches, just to be within federal guidelines.


32 posted on 02/24/2013 12:02:10 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: riverrunner
I was told the wasp spray shoots several feet further than the pepper spray. I guess this would be advantageous is maintaining a little more distance from a potential attacker?
33 posted on 02/24/2013 12:03:31 PM PST by beethoven
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To: mnehring
I once worked as a janitor and some of the chemical concentrates we used would dissolve skin, hair and nails on contact.

Bug spray is nothing compared to super concentrated chlorine. If you spilled half of cup of concentrate in a room, you couldn't enter without a respirator. I can't imagine a good spray of that stuff to the face. Methhead or not, the target's eyes would be burned away almost instantly.

Obviously firearms are better but I always thought about making some long distance “chemical guns” for friends and family that can't own real guns.

34 posted on 02/24/2013 12:10:51 PM PST by varyouga
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To: null and void

would i still be guilty of a hate crime?


35 posted on 02/24/2013 12:11:21 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Tammy8

yeah but using this that way is also illegal and it says so right on the can. so if you’re concerned about pepper spray being illegal this should also concern you.

personally i’d use it that way if it was the only thing around or closest thing handy, notice on can, or not.


36 posted on 02/24/2013 12:11:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Spray them with bug spray then grab their gun. If they shoot first they got the first zap and there’s is lethal.


37 posted on 02/24/2013 12:15:15 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: bigheadfred

Depends on your ethnicity...


38 posted on 02/24/2013 12:16:11 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Spray them with bug spray then grab their gun. If they shoot first they got the first zap and theirs is lethal.


39 posted on 02/24/2013 12:17:44 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: ansel12

I don’t think women realize just how much different (ie stronger) the average guy is to the average gal. I was just reading something here last week about the average woman in her twenties at the height of strength and such has the aerobic capacity of an average guy who’s 50. I didn’t even know it was that markedly different.


40 posted on 02/24/2013 12:18:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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