If you are not alert and aware, no defensive mechanism will help much. The whole point of surprise is to nullify defensive measures.
Do not allow an unknown or suspicious person to be within 10 feet of you, Keep that defensive tool at hand, and the potential aggressor aware that you are aware. At 7 feet, let your defensive device be seen, maybe one of these:
- pepper spray, or
- bear spray, or
- mace, or
- folder knife, or
- small spray can of fluorescent paint, or
- small can of hair spray in one hand and a Bic lighter in the other, or
- metal mechanical pencil or pen
James James Morrison Morrison, commonly known as “Jim”
Said to his other relations not to go blaming him
For James James said to his mother
“Mother”, he said, said he
“Don’t ever go down to the end of the town,
If you don’t go down with me.
You must never go down to the end of the town,
If you don’t go down with me.”
Now James James Morrison’s mother,
She hasn’t been heard of since,
King John sent down to give his regrets,
And so did the queen and the prince,
King John, somebody told me,
Said to a man he knew,
“If people go down to the end of the town,
Well what can anyone do?
If people go down to the end of the town,
Well what can anyone do?”