O T Wasp spray as a weapon to protect yourself..

[BobT-47P15]

Another e mail item........sounds cheap and easy........wasp spray does

indeed shoot out a large stream for a fair distance.

I know some of you own GUNS, but this is something to think about...

If you don't have a gun, here's a more humane way to

wreck someone's evil plans for you.

Did you know this? I didn't. I never really thought of it before.

Wasp Spray !!!

A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was

concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to

rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the

local police department about using pepper spray and they

recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray instead.

The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away

and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have

to get too close to you and could overpower you. The wasp spray

temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an

antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the office and it doesn't

attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray would.

She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection.

Thought this was interesting and might be of use.

On the heels of a break in and beating that left an elderly woman in

Toledo dead, self defense experts have a tip that could save your life.

Val Glinka teaches self-defense to students at Sylvania Southview

High School . For decades, he's suggested putting a can of wasp

and hornet spray near your door or bed.

Glinka considers it inexpensive, easy to find, and more effective

than mace or pepper spray. The cans typically shoot 20 to 30 feet;

so if someone tries to break into your home, Glinka says "spray the

culprit in the eyes". It's a tip he's given to students for decades.

"That's going to give you a chance to call the police; maybe get out.."

Maybe even save a life.

Please share this with all the people in your life

Did you also know...wasp spray will kill a snake?

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Keep your car keys with the fob for unlocking the doors near the bed.. If you hear someone breaking into the house, push the panic button so the car will make lots of noise and flash the lights. You can also do this in a parking lot.

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[Reg Evans]

Very good idea Bob. That stuff really does spray a long distance and is accurate. I have to spray the overhangs and under the peak of the 2 story part of my house every year and it's dead on even at the peak.

[Joe Flanagan]

When I was in high school I worked summers at the post office and there was a mail carrier who, legend had it, was once attacked by a dog. He took out his spray (known as "Doggie Halt") and prepared to defend himself. Unfortunately, as the story goes, he had the thing turned around the wrong way and shot himself in the eyes with it. And to go along with the burning pain in his eyes, he enjoyed the added bonus of the dog shredding his pant leg. Sounded like a local legend to me at the time. Probably was.

[teardrop puller]

I bought wasp spray for all my single neighbors last time I was in the US. Guns are illegal here, only the bad guys and the cops have them.

kai

[P-12 Tommy]

Thanks for the tip Bob!

Tom

[BobT-47P15]

Hey......you're welcome. It was in one of the many forwarded emails

we receive most every day. Just found it interesting and hopefully

useful.

[Flatie46]

Thanks good info, I've found that Gunk Foamey engine bright is the best thing for wasps I've ever seen. If you shoot the nest with it, they get caught up in all that foam and can't fly. Plus when it get's on 'em they just flat drop and die!

[Don Coatney]

What I have learned.

Sitting in my garage I observed a mud daubber hovering around my Spitfire head. This daubber then entered a water jacket hole and disappeared for a few minutes then emerged and flew off. After another few minutes this dauber re-appeared and entered the same hole. A light bulb went off in my head. I took inventory of the stuff on my workbench. Found an aerosol can of carburetor cleaner. I took aim at the hole and as soon as the daubber was in sight I fired away. The daubber backed into the hole and never again has been seen even after I turned the head upside down and violently shook it. I also gave the head a sort of good air blow and nothing came out. I will flush this head with water prior to installation .

Second test was easy. Another dauber landed on my garage floor a couple days later. I once again took aim and nailed him. He never flew again as the carburetor cleaner knocked him out cold.

[Flatie46]

What I have learned.

Sitting in my garage I observed a mud daubber hovering around my Spitfire head. This daubber then entered a water jacket hole and disappeared for a few minutes then emerged and flew off. After another few minutes this dauber re-appeared and entered the same hole. A light bulb went off in my head. I took inventory of the stuff on my workbench. Found an aerosol can of carburetor cleaner. I took aim at the hole and as soon as the daubber was in sight I fired away. The daubber backed into the hole and never again has been seen even after I turned the head upside down and violently shook it. I also gave the head a sort of good air blow and nothing came out. I will flush this head with water prior to installation .

Second test was easy. Another dauber landed on my garage floor a couple days later. I once again took aim and nailed him. He never flew again as the carburetor cleaner knocked him out cold.

Makes you wonder about using that stuff and getting it on your hands. I do like the smell though, shame they don't have carb cleaner glade air freashener.

[carls 49]

thanks for tips bob. have plenty of cans on hand ever since i got stung inside my nose .

[BobT-47P15]

Ouch

I'm sure that was no fun.

[Greenbomb]

BrakeKleen will knock the dog out of bees right now! So will GunScrubber. It's way to expensive , though.

[PatS....]

As is my habit now, I checked Snopes to see what they have to say.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/waspspray.asp

[teardrop puller]

looks to me that the snopes is trying to protect the criminal more than the victim.

WoW, imagine that.

kai

[PatS....]

looks to me that the snopes is trying to protect the criminal more than the victim.

WoW, imagine that.

kai

Isn't that the way the legal system works?? The victims are all but ignored, and self defense is a crime

[Brad Lustig]

If you don't have a gun, here's a more humane way to

wreck someone's evil plans for you.

If someone is attacking me or my family, I won't really be concerned about being humane.

[Reg Evans]

YES !!!!! I think it's over due now for the pendulum to swing back the other way . Enough already !!!!

[Flatie46]

Recently there was a couple of home invasion robberys in town. During one a woman knocked on the door and as the homeowner was walking to the door he could see two guys standing out in his yard through the blinds, he asked what she wanted. She said she had ran out of gas and needed to use the phone. Just out of suspicion he put his pistol in his back pocket. When he opened the door the two guys rushed in on him drawing there guns. The homeowner pulled his a little quicker shot and killed one on the spot, the woman was killed in the crossfire. The other guy was wounded turned up at the hospital later and died from his wounds. The sheriff said, "His actions probably saved his life and his family, it's clear self defence". After this and the other home invasion robberys I will not answer the door without my pistol. Me and the wife both have a permit and it's rare we don't carry.

This guy had been on a TV show not too long ago "The worlds strictest parents".

[Mustang6147]

I have something that will knock a dog out, or drop a bad guy a 600 yards, while my family is enjoying a BBQ or sleeping soundly.

[Rodney Bullock]

If somebody tries to attack me I just show him a picture:confused:

[41/53dodges]

im afraid to ask... of what?

[james curl]

Rodney doing Martial Arts,Kung Fu, Kwon Do, Karate or whatever he did.

Edited June 21, 2010 by james curl
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[41/53dodges]

now THATS scary!

[Flatie46]

I have something that will knock a dog out, or drop a bad guy a 600 yards, while my family is enjoying a BBQ or sleeping soundly.

With the intimidation factor that gun has you'd probly never even need bullets.