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You were sprayed with Oleoresin Capsaicum, military grade, and didn't think it was bad?

I am a Marine MP. We got sprayed on a Friday afternoon. It is quite a sight to see new Marines, just a month out of Boot Camp and a week after Marine Combat training, screaming in agony. With the exception of a few, all the Marines used all of their discipline, belief in God, or whatever to not just give up and die. You can't see, can't breath, and the pain gets worse as time goes by.

Personally, I did not stop reacting until 3 days later, after 1/2 a bottle of baby shampoo. It is quite a feeling to have labored breathing 2 days after initial exposure. Oh yeah, and it is not fun to wake up with crystals under your eyelid and your eyes sealed shut. My eyes are watering just writing this.

I'm not telling this story to make myself or Marine MPs look hardcore, but that OC spray is not joke.

Of course, civilians don't get nearly the level of OC we got, and they get the fog version, not the direct spray (level 3 I believe).

I go to UW Madison. The whole concept of Halloween is a joke. It is essentially a bunch of drunk students walking around looking at drunk students. What is my favorite costume there? The sexy cat. "Girls" were very skimpy cloths and then some cat-ears headband and they are a sexy cat. Yeah right!

One more humorous observation: girls here get incredibly drunk and give up their bodies to "men" and then we see all these signs and chalkings that say "men can stop rape." Rape is a terrible sin. But come on "girls"! Don't dress revealingly, get drunk off your A, and then say you got raped.

End of Madison rant.

I think it was bad but not as bad for me as some of my less initiated buddies. I think I may have built up a tolerance for that kind of stuff from when I was kid til I joined the Marine Corps. My diet was high in peppers of many kinds. Jalapeno, habanero, tobasco, chiles, and I'm not Mexican! When preparing these peppers from time to time I'd get the stuff on my hands and as kids do, rub the eyes inadvertantly. Instant pain and run for the shower to get it out! I reacted to the sprays and junk just like everyone else, but I knew what to expect beforehand. There's a tree here in Florida (invasive species from China) called the Chinese Tallow, commonly called a Popcorn tree. It's milky, sticky sap is worse than any pepper I've ever been exposed to. I was cutting one down once and got the sap in my eyes and I thought I was going blind! It burned worse than pepper spray! If the Marines want to develop a anti-personnel control type agent this is it!. Heck, all you have to do is put it in a spray can and viola! Riot over..........