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When walking the mean streets, how do you protect yourself?

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  • #62
    Puddleduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Puddleduck


    I protect myself with my face :)


  • #63
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    I've got Jack Johnson and Tom O'Leary right here!
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Jack Johnson and Tom O'Leary

    Beat ya to it :cool:


  • #64
    daveharnett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭daveharnett


    Dragan wrote: »
    Here is the question though, if your carrying a weapon ( carrying ANYTHING that may be seen as a weapon is a really stupid idea folks ) and he is carrying a weapon, and you stab him first then how do you prove that your life was under threat?

    I mean, you had a blade as well.

    Depending on witnesses etc they could very well spin the same argument.

    +1
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum
    While civilians tends to get a little more leeway than police, force continium does apply to us too. If it ever were to happen, you would have a very tough time convincing people that stabbing somebody was the minimum force needed to defend yourself. Especially when people make their own inferences from the fact that you were carrying an offensive weapon in the first place.


  • #65
    Dinter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    I carry an ivory handled sword stick, my top hat is reinforced with a sharpened steel discus, my belt doubles as a garotte, my dinner suit is lined on the inside with steel discs to make a crude suit of splint mail and my opera cape has lead weights in the lining for an impromptu bolas.

    All in all I've got it covered.


  • #66
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The best weapon you can have to defend yourself is your brain.
    Use that more often first and your miles a head of a possible dangerous situation!


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  • #67
    t-ha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭t-ha


    I carry pish balloons in my pockets ALL THE TIME because you never know when a crazed-out drug loon with a concealed knife and an infected syringe is gonna jump at you from a laneway corner. As soon as he attacks I fish around in my pockets for the balloons sutaining heavy damage until I can get them out and throw them at him (obviously a few burst in my pockets but I'd rather smell of piss than be carried by six). Then I yell 'FIRE FIRE' as loud as I can because studies have shown that that makes people help you if you're being assaulted. If all else fails I go for the keys, which unfortunately takes me ages to get them out of my pockets, and go kkkrraazzzyyy with them and tear my own hand apart. Eventually I escape and go home but realise I'm locked out because I dropped my keys.


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