as Dr Pepper sprays on keyboardSelf-tested a product today...
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Or, you could carry a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce.
Dave's is quite possibly my favorite hot sauce, for two reasons. 1) I like the taste and heat, and 2) "Introducing" Dave's to other folks. Now, Dave's is some insanely hot stuff, requiring only a single drop to adequately season most foods. For some people, even that much is too much. Thusly, when I introduce folks to it, I always warn them to touch their finger to the inside of the cap, then touch their tongue with their finger (NOT to try a big gloop of it on a chip, as some folks are wont to do). Some heed the warning, some don't. The ones that don't make for "interesting" reactions...
At any rate, there's a health warning on the bottle, and a list of "alternative uses" which include high-grade driveway grease remover... 
Well, I had a bottle with me at a get-together one day, and accidentally spilled a little on my hand. I immediately washed that hand, thoroughly, and did so several more times that night. I thought I had gotten all of the sauce off.
On the way home, my nose started itching... Y'all can probably see where this is going.
By the time I stumbled through the front door, my left nostril was the site of a tribal war-dance for fire-ants, my upper lip had been napalmed, and my entire left cheek had ceased to exist, being replaced by a burning sea of lava. Water did nothing to ease the pain; neither did lotion. I forget exactly how I got rid of the burning, as I was slapping anything I could find on it in a desperate attempt to rid myself of the pyromaniac Lilliputians that had invaded my facial pores, but my face was numb for a while afterwards.
The stuff's potent.
Dave's is quite possibly my favorite hot sauce, for two reasons. 1) I like the taste and heat, and 2) "Introducing" Dave's to other folks. Now, Dave's is some insanely hot stuff, requiring only a single drop to adequately season most foods. For some people, even that much is too much. Thusly, when I introduce folks to it, I always warn them to touch their finger to the inside of the cap, then touch their tongue with their finger (NOT to try a big gloop of it on a chip, as some folks are wont to do). Some heed the warning, some don't. The ones that don't make for "interesting" reactions...
At any rate, there's a health warning on the bottle, and a list of "alternative uses" which include high-grade driveway grease remover... Well, I had a bottle with me at a get-together one day, and accidentally spilled a little on my hand. I immediately washed that hand, thoroughly, and did so several more times that night. I thought I had gotten all of the sauce off.
On the way home, my nose started itching... Y'all can probably see where this is going.
By the time I stumbled through the front door, my left nostril was the site of a tribal war-dance for fire-ants, my upper lip had been napalmed, and my entire left cheek had ceased to exist, being replaced by a burning sea of lava. Water did nothing to ease the pain; neither did lotion. I forget exactly how I got rid of the burning, as I was slapping anything I could find on it in a desperate attempt to rid myself of the pyromaniac Lilliputians that had invaded my facial pores, but my face was numb for a while afterwards.
The stuff's potent.
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I believe he got you there...Russell wrote:KRM45 wrote:I've got a .45 I'm wondering how effective it will be...Russell wrote:Some may find that insane, but, if I am going to trust a bottle of liquid to prevent a BG from causing me bodily harm, I want to know exactly what it is going to feel like on their face, and just how strong it will be.
Hahaha... yeah yeah yeah....
"Perseverance and Preparedness triumph over Procrastination and Paranoia every time.” -- Steve
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I had a similar experience with Fox 5.1..
Just after my wife brought a dog home she'd found at a crawfish boil my boss at work had last year, he dug is way out of the yard. After filling in that area of dirt under our gate (but before I "floored" that area with 16 bricks at 3 paverstones) I was trying to come up with some way to keep the dog out of that area, to prevent another large hole under our gate with a subsequent dog chase.
I came up with the grand idea of using a bit of Fox spray and hitting the lower part of the fence and the dirt in that area, figuring that'd keep the dog away until I could better "fortify" his escape route.
Similar to Russell, the wind shifted direction at the last minute, and I got a (granted, relatively minor) blowback of misted spray. This was from a stream dispenser, so it was probably little more than vapor. As soon as a sensed what was going wrong, I instinctivly put my free hand in front of my face, and then, to my own horror, continued the instinct of using the same hand (which had blocked a bit of the spray) to wipe at my face which had started to burn by this point.
Of course, that didn't help matters any as I stumbled back into the house (I couldn't tell for sure thru my blurry vision, but I think I saw the dog laughing at me as I stumbled inside) and over the next 10 minutes, managed to rinse most of the effect away with running water. LOTS of running water in my kitchen sink....
Anyhow, dog didn't mess with the fence, and I was a half hour late to work that day.
I'm about to buy 2 new small fox dispensers (keychain size) and am determined to use the older ones for practice (and see how well they still spray after roughly a year of regular carry). I'll pick a day with NO wind, and use the LARGE field behind my house. Will bring along a camelback of water and a couple of those wipes they sell that's supposed to help, just in case.
Just after my wife brought a dog home she'd found at a crawfish boil my boss at work had last year, he dug is way out of the yard. After filling in that area of dirt under our gate (but before I "floored" that area with 16 bricks at 3 paverstones) I was trying to come up with some way to keep the dog out of that area, to prevent another large hole under our gate with a subsequent dog chase.
I came up with the grand idea of using a bit of Fox spray and hitting the lower part of the fence and the dirt in that area, figuring that'd keep the dog away until I could better "fortify" his escape route.
Similar to Russell, the wind shifted direction at the last minute, and I got a (granted, relatively minor) blowback of misted spray. This was from a stream dispenser, so it was probably little more than vapor. As soon as a sensed what was going wrong, I instinctivly put my free hand in front of my face, and then, to my own horror, continued the instinct of using the same hand (which had blocked a bit of the spray) to wipe at my face which had started to burn by this point.
Of course, that didn't help matters any as I stumbled back into the house (I couldn't tell for sure thru my blurry vision, but I think I saw the dog laughing at me as I stumbled inside) and over the next 10 minutes, managed to rinse most of the effect away with running water. LOTS of running water in my kitchen sink....
Anyhow, dog didn't mess with the fence, and I was a half hour late to work that day.
I'm about to buy 2 new small fox dispensers (keychain size) and am determined to use the older ones for practice (and see how well they still spray after roughly a year of regular carry). I'll pick a day with NO wind, and use the LARGE field behind my house. Will bring along a camelback of water and a couple of those wipes they sell that's supposed to help, just in case.