With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Be careful with your pepper spray and other self-defense implements.

http://www.kansas.com/2011/10/10/2056485/hotel-evacuated-1-hurt-after-bear.html
The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY - Authorities say a Salt Lake City Marriott hotel was evacuated and a housekeeper was taken to the hospital after a can of bear repellant accidentally discharged.

Fire officials tell the Salt Lake Tribune the housekeeper was pushing her cleaning cart through a hallway at about 5 p.m. Sunday when it hit a can of spray that was left on the floor.

Salt Lake City Battalion Fire Chief Clair Baldwin says the can discharged and released the repellant, which he says "is like pepper spray, only 10 times stronger." Baldwin says the woman was unable to open her eyes after the incident and was taken to the hospital.

The Deseret News reports about 200 people were evacuated as crews aired out the building.

Authorities are still trying to determine why the bear repellant was in the hallway.

I also recall a story about some nefarious ladies in a bar who talked a guy into believing that a .5 ounce canister of pepper spray was actually breath spray.  They had to evacuate the bar and take the guy to the ER after he tried it.


Carelessness with and misuse of pepper spray and other self-defense implements just helps build a case for those in government who are opposed to those things being available to civilians.  Don't use them for entertainment purposes.  Misuse of pepper spray, stun guns, etc. is classified as a crime in most states.