Posted on 03/26/2011 6:24:27 AM PDT by marktwain
Sometimes when you are working on a project you sit back holding your spray can and realize while you've done some good work, it just needs another coat.
It was a Friday night, shortly after 10:00 p.m.; I was sitting in the family room with my wife watching a TV program about a mathematician that helps the FBI solve crimes. The phone rang; there was a young woman on the other side that was clearly in distress. With a pen and pad in hand I started taking notes on what had occurred. When my telephone goes off in the late hours, it is most often because somebody found themselves in a self-defense engagement and used force in defense of themselves or someone else. Tonight would be no different, but this time I started laughing and during the conversation. My wife thought I was losing my mind.
On the other end of the phone was a young woman who was clearly in distress. She was speaking quickly and it sounded as though she was trying to choke back some tears. She began telling me the story of what happened, and as is often is the case, I asked her to skip some details and provide me with some very specific information. Once this information was provided I had a clear picture of what had happened. I knew right then and there she would be okay.
Missy, Jessica and Bob were heading to a friend's surprise birthday party. They did not want to arrive too early so they stopped at a local bar to talk and enjoy a cocktail before moving on. While inside, a jerk began hitting on Missy. The jerk's advances were unwelcome and Missy made it clear that she wasn't interested. The jerk was drunk and continued his advances. Bob and Jessica tried to intervene, but it was apparent that the jerk was not going to give up, and it was best they leave the bar and move on to the surprise party. So out they went. Bob was distracted as he left the bar and did not see the jerk coming up behind him towards the two girls.
When Missy turned around to look for Bob, she sees the jerk lumbering towards her and he starts calling her some very unpleasant names. She is now frightened and begins to shake. The jerk then begins to threaten her. Missy is smart. She carries a firearm in her purse and since she knew she was heading to a bar and to a party where alcohol would be consumed so she thought it was best to leave her purse in Jessica's trunk. As she approached Jessica's car, she thought about asking Jessica to open the trunk so she could retrieve her firearm to "encourage" the jerk to move onto easier prey. Then she gave some thought to the other tools available to her. In her jacket pocket was a very small wallet containing some cash, credit cards, her ID and a keychain. Attached to that keychain was a small canister of pepper spray. She reached into her jacket removed the pepper spray from its pink pleather holster, and sprayed him in the eyes and face. The jerk collapsed like an unset jello mold. He began screaming obscenities. Now Missy is pissed. While the jerk is on the ground on all fours trying to cover his face, she "gives him a second coat".
This is probably the funniest thing that I've ever heard on that emergency line. Missy, Bill and Jessica were now in the car with the doors locked. No one had called 911. Missy kept me on the phone while Jessica called 911 from her cell phone. While Jessica was calling 911, a bouncer from the bar came out and insisted that Missy get out of the car so he could speak with her. I told Missy to stay in the vehicle as the bouncer had no authority to instruct her to do anything, and she was safe in the locked car. She was to sit in the car until law enforcement arrived. Within a few minutes, three patrol cars rolled up to the bar and immediately took the jerk into custody since he thought it would be a good idea to resist their advances and to call them obscene names as well.
The police then questioned Missy, Bill and Jessica. The officer assured Missy that she did the right thing and that everything would be just fine.
That was the end of the evening for the jerk. He was brought to jail for a number of charges including disorderly conduct. Then the police told Missy that she was free to continue with her evening. She was thrilled. She really had no idea what would happen to her, and in her heart she honestly thought she would be arrested as well.
Had she discharged her firearm instead of her pepper spray, there is a good chance she would have been arrested. I will not speculate on the outcome of that scenario, but use this experience in Missy's life to once again show the value of having multiple tools in one's self-defense tool box. OC spray (pepper spray) certainly has its time and place, and one enormous benefit of hitting somebody with OC spray is that at the end of the day everyone goes home (eventually).
When the police rolled up at the bar, they saw two upset women and a guy lying on the ground screaming while trying to breath. The gals relayed a story of unwelcome advances and his attempt to follow them to their car. In the end the officer simply told the jerk that he picked on the wrong girl.
I am going to get some for my daughter
I got mine a big can of Bear Repellant Spray.
I got mine a big can of Bear Repellant Spray.
I got mine a big can of Bear Repellant Spray.
Where was this bouncer when the jerk was making a menace to others in the bar?
The SOB should have been tossed out on his ear long before this episode occurred.
Good read! Thanks for posting this.
Where was this bouncer when the jerk was being a menace to others in the bar?
Great story and good judgement by all. I hope the Police explained to the jerk just how lucky he was to still be alive. Had this young lady had her CW on her when he charged she would have been right to defend herself. But good for her to have a backup in hand!
I’ve been looking into adding several cans of pepper spray along wsith some other less than lethal ammo to my emergency stores, but there are so many products out there it’s almost impossible to make a reasoned decision based on nothing more than the advertising alone.
If you were looking to buy multiple cans of the most effective and legal self-defense spray made, what would you buy?
Has anyone else stocked 12 Gage beanbag rounds and any of the other like less than lethal shotgun products??
How about pepper balls for a paintball gun?? If you’re just trying to repel a group of people you could put a lot of encouragement on them quickly that way.
Every bit of prior preparation you make is worthwhile. You never know what might come in handy some day and save you from using your last resort.
Happy ending but wrong conclusion....althought he guy was a obnoxious jerk he never did anything warranting leathal force...the pepper spray was an appropriate level of force...
Who is this guy Buckley that chicks call him in the middle of the night for advice and his wife doesn’t object? I don’t like his tone—its smarmy and boorish and condescending all at once. What is he, a “self defense” instructor for women? So a guy without all of the socially acceptable equipment tried to hit on a woman, she didn’t like him and sprayed him with pepper and got him arrested. And she was thrilled the cops told her to “continue with her evening fun”. So now some sectors of society have implied rights to assault others without legal consequences. That’s what it has come down to. Some people have a lot more rights than others. And the “others” increasingly seem to be straight white males. What a society we now have. And this guy Buckley is joining the pile-on. Has he never had his advances rejected by a woman? Absolutely no empathy whatsoever with this guy? What is he, a closet queer?
What do you have, triplets?
No but my computer seems to have them.
Do you understand that when a LEO uses/deploys less that lethal force, that he has other officers beside and behind him with firearms drawn?
Is there a liberal repellant spray?
She should have shot the jerks balls off anyway!>sar<
You might want to read the story again.
Slowly.
Just pay attention to the wind direction...
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