[SOC] Try reading this without laughing

[Curt Steger]

CS is a wonderful thing, providing I do not have to endure it AGAIN. Was
exposed to it in boot camp and again when I went through the academy. We
also had to be exposed to 5% and 10% OC spray. The OC foam is the worst.
Mace isn't that bad.

The 5% OC is a good substitute for crushed peppers on pizza if you do not
have any by the way.

When I went through Tazer training it was strongly suggested we "ride the
wire". There is nothing like taking a 5 second ride on the Tazer,
voluntarily to boot.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Michael Coslo <mjc5 at psu.edu> wrote:

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>
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> On 3/29/10 11:53 PM, "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > An SOC buddy of mine did something similar in the early 90's when tazers
> > were still relatively new.  He was laying in his bed tossing it up and
> > catching it and somehow managed to engage it and catch it with his nuts.
>  He
> > says he doesn't remember much of that night.
> >
> > Not to be outdone, retroactively...
> >
> > About ten years of age my buddy and I were scrounging in trash cans and
> > found a can of mace.  Managed to blast ourselves squarely in the face.
> >
> > A good decade later, a buddy of mine, a security gaurd was staring
> intently
> > into a hole on the side of a power pole.  I asked what he was doing, he
> > replied "carpenter bees"  We both got real close just before he shot some
> > disastrous combination of CS or CN gas and pepper spray, which we had
> > expected to go into the hole, the dipshit was holding the can backwards.
>
> What's more, it probably had no effect on the bees.
>
> > In the mid-90's, there was a recall of a certain brand of pepper spray.
>  Not
> > overly hot, perhaps 1.5 SCU, but bad enough.  My Dad thought it would be
> a
> > good idea to drain and depressurize the canisters before disposal, I
> thought
> > it would be good to do it over a wall between two buildings where nobody
> > could easily get to.  What I didn't figure on was the wind currents that
> > carried two canisters of the spray not over the wall, but back up and
> square
> > on top of my head.  I didn't discover this until an hour later when
> driving
> > in traffic and it began to run into my eyes.
>
> We often borrow tents from our County for field day. One year the operators
> in one of the tents were complaining about tearing up, choking and cough.
> Turned out that the tents were used the day before for training Police in
> using tear gas. That stuff has staying power.
>
> But really, all that stuff is designed to stop people in their tracks. It's
> a good bet that it isn't pleasant.
>