Authorities say a woman used pepper spray to defend herself against a man who allegedly attacked her outside her Salisbury home.

At around 12:23 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 8, Salisbury police officers responded to the 700 block of Roger Street where they met with a woman who stated she had been attacked from behind in her driveway by a male suspect wearing a black hooded jacket and blue jeans. According to police, the victim stated that she sprayed her attacker with pepper spray that she keeps for personal defense.

Investigators said the information the victim provided was relayed to responding units and officers and K-9 “Miso” searched the neighborhood. According to police, a suspect was located on the 300 block of Prince Street, a short distance from where the assault is allegedly occurred.

Police said the suspect, later identified as 19-year-old Brian Stewart Harcum Jr. of Salisbury, was wearing clothing matching the description of the woman’s attacker. Police also noted that Harcum had tears in his eyes and mucus coming from his nose, which is indicative of the effects of pepper spray.

Harcum was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree assault, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. He is being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center in lieu of $25,000 bond.

The victim was not injured in the assault, police said.

Good for this woman taking the responsibility to defend herself and not depending on others, including police.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Police are on the lookout for a man who walked into a local Dotty’s, implied he had a gun in his jacket and tried to rob the place but was thwarted by a clerk who wasn’t about to back down.

The crime happened around 1:30 a.m. on July 10 at the Dotty’s at 2705 N.E. 238th Drive in Troutdale.

According to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, the clerk in the store punched the suspect and pepper sprayed him as he ran to his vehicle. The man fled the scene in a white 1990s Ford Explorer with a rear license plate that was obscured and unreadable.

The suspect is described as a white male with a possible beard or full goatee. He is about 5 feet, 6 inches to 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds.

You are absolutely 100% right Michael. I couldn’t agree more or say it better myself.

I actually had a discussion about the legality of pepper spray n stun guns with a shop owner here in NC. While I was informing him that it was legal and while he kept asking for proof, there was a lady outside the store at one of the gas pumps screaming. I turned to look and saw a guy that this woman didn’t seem to know manhandling her at the sleeve.

I thought to myself,”Well, I guess we will find out if these things are legal or not because this lady needs some help!” Of course there was no police in sight. There were other people standing at other gas pumps and they were not inclined to help. So I grabbed one of my keychain pepper sprays and sprung into action.

I think I might’ve actually told the shop owner that we would find out if my products were legal or not because I was “fixing” to use it (people in the country just love that word!). The attacker never saw me coming. By the time he finally snatched her purse from around her shoulder and turned to run, I was standing right there and sprayed a nice dose of pepper spray directly in his face.

What happened next I’ll never forget. The attacker froze and glared at me with a look I cannot describe as anything but total shock himself and I thought to myself, “Oh boy, you did it now, Jon! You’re gonna have to knock this guy out with something stronger than this pepper spray!!!” But as soon as I thought this and took my stance to defend myself, the attacker held his hands to his face and screamed like a little girl, “Why did you do that??!!! It hurts!!!”

The attacker fell to the ground in the fetal position. When the cops arrived, they looked at my pepper spray, read its contents, and informed the shop owner that not only was it legal…but it was the same spray that had been issued to their department and was found to be the most effective way to stop a fight before a fight actually occurred.

The shop owner didn’t hesitate. He purchased all the pepper spray I had with me!!! But it proved to me that sometimes it doesn’t matter what the law says. You have the god given right to protect yourself or someone in trouble anytime and anywhere no matter what!!! Nobody can tell me different because I know what’s right.

A 20-year-old Madison woman who was grabbed and being dragged to an alley Tuesday afternoon got out of the suspect’s grasp by spraying him in the face with pepper spray, Madison police reported.

The woman didn’t report the attack until the next day, fearing she’d get in trouble for having pepper spray.

Not so.

“In Madison, it is legal to possess pepper spray and use it in self-defense,” said Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. Monday on State Street near Lake Street.

“A disheveled man grabbed her by the wrist and tried to pull her into an alley,” DeSpain said. “After she sprayed him in the face, he let go of her arm, put his hands to his face and bellowed out a swear word.”

“The investigating officer told her this was a serious incident that needed to be reported immediately so police might have a better chance of arresting a suspect,” DeSpain said.

A hiker in Teton Canyon used pepper spray to fended off a reported grizzly bear Sunday, Wyoming Game and Fish officials said Thursday.

Former Colorado resident Chris Laing was hiking about a mile up the north fork of the Teton Creek Trail, the trail that goes to Table Mountain, when “he contacted a reported grizzly bear sow with two cubs of the year,” Wyoming Game and Fish Specialist Mike Boyce said.

The bear was apparently chasing Laing’s dog when it veered off and headed for Laing.

The bear charged three times before being deterred by the spray.

“The bear got as close as five feet,” Boyce said. “He sprayed the bear with bear spray on all three charges and was able to get out of there uninjured.”

Boyce said he thought the man’s dog was a factor in provoking this bear.

“The bear was just … defending her cubs,” he said.

An investigation of the incident couldn’t confirm the type of bear because of poor tracking conditions, but “the behavior that this bear displayed was confident with aggressive, defensive grizzly bear behavior,” Boyce said.

The Forest Service has since posted warning signs on the trail, but the trail is not closed.

The bear and her cubs were behaving naturally and will not be captured or killed, Boyce said.

“We’re just planning on closely monitoring the situation up there,” he said.

Boyce recommends hiking with at least one other person, making plenty of noise, keeping dogs under control and carrying a defense such as bear spray and knowing how to use it.

“That’s one thing Chris did very well,” Boyce said. “[Bear spray] was effective in this incident. He was able to get out of there without injury.”

There’s  a serial rapist on the loose in Yoakum, TX and  Cassandra McGinty has a new sequence when she arrives home: search room to room, with a stun gun in her hand.

The rapist has been attacking older women in central Texas during the past year, terrifying residents and frustrating the police who don’t have a good description to go on.

Pepper spray has been selling like hotcakes in the towns where the attacks have occurred, and McGinty said her landlord in Marquez handed out stun guns as Christmas gifts.

Beginning with the rape of a 65-year-old woman in Yoakum in January 2009, authorities have linked eight sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults to the suspect.

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With the rise in crime – and the related worries about protecting oneself and one’s personal property – many people find themselves looking for reliable methods of self defense. But what if an individual is not comfortable owning a handgun? One of the most tried-and-true alternative home security methods for this type of person involves stun guns.

Stun guns are rapidly gaining popularity for people who are looking for security but also want to avoid some of the inherent dangers and liabilities that may come along with ownership of a firearm. Fortunately, modern stun guns are one of the more safe – and effective – options around. The fact is, most people these days know someone who has been a victim of some sort of criminal activity, whether it be a simple burglary, a robbery, or even a physical or sexual assault. These types of experiences tend to drive the business of non-lethal home and personal security to the forefront of people’s minds. Stun guns can be the answer for many people who wish to avoid becoming victims of crime, themselves.

Stun guns are known as “electroshock weapons.” This moniker comes because these types of self defense devices operate using an electrical discharge to temporarily disable an attacker’s natural muscle control ability. This effect is accomplished by using a high voltage, low current charge that very swiftly causes pain and temporary paralysis in the target. Even a shock of only a couple of seconds with a stun gun is usually incapacitating, and allows a would-be victim to escape to safety and get help! Because modern stun guns are pre-programmed to stop shock administration after about five seconds, the chances of a serious damage to the target are significantly diminished.

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Entrepreneurs who are interested in building a successful retail business will need to accurately research their best options for finding the wholesale merchandise. This will ultimately become the very foundation of their business plan.

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What Is Drop Shipping?

Drop shipping is a service often utilized by retailers who do not wish to maintain the stock of their entire wholesale merchandise by themselves. Rather, these wise businesspersons allow their customers to place orders that are sent directly to the drop shipper.

The staff at the drop shipping company takes care of al of the details, such as filling the order and shipping the products to the customer. Obviously, this efficiency saves time and money for the retailer, and offers numerous benefits along the way.

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Pepper sprays are used for self-defense and other similar circumstances around the world. One of the reasons that they are so popular is because they are incredibly effective!

The original – and still most commonly-used – type of pepper spray is based on a substance called “capsaicin.” This is a derivative from one of the extremely hot kinds of peppers used to flavor spicy dishes, called Capsicum peppers. With just one spray into the face, these self-defense products can drop an attacker for nearly an hour… even longer, in some cases. The nice thing about pepper spray is that it is both easy to carry and simple to use in the appropriate scenario.

The pepper sprays used throughout the world may vary somewhat, but they are all derived from Capsicum peppers. Some of them are organic, like the ones usually used in the United States, while others are synthetic, like those produced in Russia and the United Kingdom.

Regardless of the source, these sprays can be remarkably effective. The synthetically produced pepper sprays create precisely the same symptoms and as the sprays that are created from the actual pepper plants. Both of these types of sprays are utilized all over the world for defense against human attackers, wild or feral animals, and other forms of threats.

How Is Pepper Spray Used?

There are an intriguing variety of canister sizes and delivery systems for the kinds of pepper sprays. Most frequently used are spray containers, which are often quite small and can easily be carried in a pocketbook or jacket pocket.

For individual or personal safety, these smaller canisters are ideal for many people because they are simple to manage and not unwieldy. They are also a good idea for legal reasons, since certain areas of the country (like California) have legal limitations on the size of a pepper spray canister allowable for self defense. It is worth noting that some areas of the world will only allow pepper sprays to be used against attacking animals, such as Canada.

Pepper spray is very effective against attacking humans or animals because the physical response is virtually instantaneous. Exposure to the face induces involuntary closing of the eyes, and the capsaicin can also cause short-term blindness. Additional symptoms will include fits of coughing, breathing difficulties, extreme tearing and runny nose, and other painful redness all over the face.

Does Anything Help The Symptoms of Capsaicin?

Even though it may seem like the perfect antidote, water does not help at all… this is because capsaicin is not soluble in water. Time is the only thing that has been shown to decrease the pain of pepper spray.

Due to these factors, pepper spray can be instrumental in helping potential victims to safely remove themselves from a self-defense situation. Because it has been shown to offer proven efficacy (along with non-lethal results), pepper spray qualifies as a tremendous alternative self defense option, especially for families with children or those living in areas where a firearm is not allowed.

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