New home security radio commercial, the woman keeps saying that-- I didn't pay attention until the first time she said it. The guy was obviously over a phone, telling her to calm down and call 911.
Ended with her saying "the children, I'm going to the children."
Cue the "our system stays up even when the power is down, inexpensive install and subscription" and such.
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You know what this jumpy mcfraidy pants does when she hears a sound? Grabs a weapon and goes to investigate. WD-40 probably isn't as good as wasp spray or as appropriate as mace, (of course, you can't have a resistance to 'I just got grease in my eyes' either) but I'll take it over trying a shield-bash, and for similar reason-- disable any theoretical bad guy long enough for me to do harm with whatever I have in the other hand, get Kit, get out.
Of course, there's always guns, too, but that would be over kill for "odd sound" checking around; also rather dangerous, since we don't have a shotgun. (Hm. Mental note: get snake shot.)
It may not be a great plan, but I do have a plan (or three) for any likely route of unauthorized access, including knowing what walls are solid enough to be decent cover and which ones are basically painted cardboard. (that would be most of them....) Knives in strategic places, aim-able sprays by them; it's not like I'm buying new stuff, I just have things like the WD-40 in a handy spot for normal use, so I put a knife with it. We even have a sword hanging around. Not sharp, but get thumped in the knee/ankle it a pointy baseball bat and you'll feel it. (Can't wait until we can get Elf's stuff to this side of the country-- he's got a nice Japanese blade collection.)
I'll probably stop short of taping wrenches under tables, though. That's a little TOO much like the engineers.
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I appreciate that blogs like this one are sharing proactive safety ideas. That’s a good thing. However, there is an issue with WASP spray. WASP sprays’ labels state, "It’s a violation of federal law to use in any manner inconsistent with this label. Never Use Indoors!” Police departments worldwide use pepper spray because the inflammatory effects of this agent work on those which cannot feel pain (very important). The inflammatory effects of pepper spray cause eyes to close involuntarily and produce a loss of breath sensation. Pepper spray has been proven effective on deterring and incapacitating aggressive, combative, intoxicated and drug induced individuals for over 20 years.
To date, no human testing has been conducted on WASP spray and it’s a violation of federal law to use in self defense. There are many home defense pepper spray options which will deploy up to 25 feet and unlike WASP sprays, these pepper sprays do not require the user to be as accurate because their spray pattern will cover an entire doorway. Pepper spray is a safe, proven option which is trusted and relied upon by police officers worldwide.
...did you even read the post before re-posting this, Michael Spambot?
If someone has broken into my house, the assumption by law enforcement and myself is that they are willing to kill me. I am looking at options with an eye to "does not get my family hurt" not "will the EPA get angry with me?"
Pepper spray is usually effective and safe.
Except for when it isn't-- I personally know two of the (small) ship's defense folks who could function fully with military grade pepper spray in their eyes, and all five of the ""Confidence Chamber" supervisors back in boot camp had trained themselves by exposure to be able to stand in there and speak normally. Repeated exposure, in a non-negligible portion of the population, makes it not work with high grade stuff.
Hm, take the risk that the civilian grade stuff will work, even though my area is notorious for the walk in walk out nature of our criminal justice system, or have a plan that only counts on a spray distracting someone long enough for me to do them dire bodily harm in sufficient amounts to get me and mine out of danger?
One of those guys had developed his resistance with only boot camp and three qualification exposures. (To pack military defense spray, you have to be sprayed with it each year--or was it six months? I forget, but it doesn't matter beyond knowing that a defense has issues.)
Anyone reading this may notice that I didn't mention real baseball bats; this is on purpose, since most of the areas are too restricted to get enough swing to overcome the way that I'm small and a bat is rounded-- I may as well depend on my pocket knife as use a bat in my house. Although I might put one in the nursery, since that would be a last-stand location and has a nice blind corner inside....
By the way, I will NOT be buying your Sabre Red defense spray. I really do not like cut and paste posts.
You might use a baseball bat as a rapier, though something smaller in diameter and pointier would work better.
As long as you get speed on your side, the lack of reach and arm strength can be partially compensated for. Long pointy things can be our friends. :)
Better yet, any random Goblin wouldn't know that the sword isn't sharpened. ^.^
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