[ Durham County sheriff’s deputy Michael] Lemay recommended that the woman keep two things by her front door: a whistle and a can of wasp spray.

“It shoots 20 feet, it’s cost-effective and it does the job,” Lemay said.

Via Durham NewsObserver.com

As somebody who has dealt with a wasp colony or a couple of dozens in his life, I can attest that the only way that wasp spray does good against wasp is if you place a flame between the can and the target. and create your own makeshift flame-thrower. A human attacker is a wee bit bigger than a wasp and unless you manage to convince him to stand still, open his mouth and ingest the contest of the can, the wasp spray is not gonna do squat.

A very physically fit couple in Seattle found out the hard way that bug spray is for bugs. One Ken Boonstra apparently wanted to play “let’s make a snuff porn video,” broke into their house and after liberal applications of wasp spray and a baseball bat, Mr. Boonstra failed to get the memo about surrendering. The wife had to retrieve a kitchen knife and apply it liberally to various parts of Mr. Boonstra’s anatomy until he gave up enough blood to depart this earth.

Again: a very fit couple (Both into the Crossfit scene) used a baseball bat and a can of wasp spray without results. Only when a knife (a deadly weapon) was introduced, the struggle finally tilted in favor of the good guys.

Now, if we could make a request to the Durham County Sheriff and ask him to have Deputy Lemay swap his sidearm and carry only a can of Wasp Spray when patrolling the streets…….. nah, not happening.

Some stuff collected from the webs:

If I locked the doors, cut the lights, and crouched in a dark corner clutching an improvised weapon every time someone got shot within a mile of where I’m sitting, I’d never get anything done around here.

via View From The Porch: If society had lapels, I’d be grabbing them..

Another one annoyed at the Media & Academy Who Cried Wolf.

No more kids doing stupid stuff with bikes, snowboards and other stuff…. not even Shooters showing us how cool they run an IPSC  or IDPA stage,  no sireeeee……!

This is what GoPro cam is all about:

PS: I am allowed a chauvinistic post a year. 🙂
Hat tip to the Feral Irishman

WESLEY CHAPEL —
Lockdowns at Wesley Chapel high and elementary schools as well as Thomas E. Weightman Middle School have been lifted.
The Pasco Sheriff’s Office responded to Wesley Chapel High School where a student reported to school officials she had some type of cut/injury to her upper torso.

via Lockdown lifted at 3 Wesley Chapel schools.

Next week or so, I am expecting a full SWAT deployment because some 4 grader passed gas rather loudly.

Moms Demand are having one of their traditional hissy fits about a Billboard in the Chicago area portraying an Evil Ghost Assault Gun with 1/2 second assault magazine clips.

It is good to see that such a progressive police department like Chicago’s would not stoop so low as to have their officers use such disgusting weapons in the performance of their duties, now would it?

Specially AR-Type rifles like the one on the billboard, right? As they are not Military but a Civilian LEO organization and those type of weapons only belong on the battlefield.

Then again Chicago’s crime and dominance of the streets by Gangs may very well make it a battlefield…..nah!

UPDATE: Billboard company responds:

Basically: Shush and let the adults alone.