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"I am a full time Culinary Student at the Arts Institute of Houston. On February 10, 2004 I was on my way to Reliant Park because I had landed a job cooking at the Super Bowl.
As I was exiting off of 610 at the Kirby exit I blew out a tire. As I was changing it, a man approximately 6 foot, 220 pounds pulled behind my vehicle. He approached me and asked several times if I needed any help, and I repeatedly told him that I had it under control. He had alcohol on his breath and seemed to be getting annoyed with the fact that I did not need his help.
At this point I was beginning to feel uneasy of his presence. He started to reach and grabbed my arm and at this time I pulled out my 80,000 volt Mini Talon out of my pocket and stuck him once in the stomach and it stopped him. I stuck him a second time in the heart area and he fell to his knees and hit the concrete, face first.
While he was on the ground I struck him again in the back of the neck. Scared, I left the scene and then realized I needed to turn around and return. As I drove up a Police Officer and Paramedic Unit arrived too. The Paramedics brought him to with an ammonia vial. He was arrested for attempted assault.
As of this writing I have heard nothing more from this incident. Afraid for my own safety that day, I feel the Mini Talon Stun Gun possibly saved my life."
Big city, small town, even rural communities. meth labs are hidden in rolling hills of small town areas - soon meth addicts are breaking into homes, hijacking cars, where violent crime was unheard of only a year ago.
RAPES...There were 94,635 reported rapes in 2004. The highest percentage of rape is in the Northeast. July is when the greatest number of rapes occur.
ROBBERIES...There were 401,326 robberies in 2004. Highest percentage of these (38%) were in the South. 42% of the robberies occurred on the streets, 14% occurred in homes.
ASSAULT...There were 854,911 incidents of aggravated assault. Firearms were used for 19.3% of the assaults, knives or cutting instruments 18.6%, other weapons (clubs, blunt objects, etc.) 35.6% and personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.) accounted for 26.6% of the assaults.
CAR JACKINGS...There are around 38,000 car jackings each year. 74% of the victims faced a weapon. About 63% of carjacking incidents occurred within 5 miles of the victim's home, including 17% that occurred at or near the home...sometimes in their own driveway. Only 4% occurred more than 50 miles from the victim's home. It's obvious there is a need for these products and an opportunity for you to provide them and make money.
Even though I'm an N.R.A. Firearms instructor (one of the few females in this area) and have all kinds of gun carry permits, when I walk my dog around the neighborhood, I prefer carrying the Power Pepper Spray that I KNOW works without a fatality! Though I THOUGHT I was bringing it along for some of the meaner dogs in the area, about a year ago, some maniac in a pick-up truck tried to run over my dog and me! After we jumped in the closest ditch, he stopped the truck and started to get out to beat the hell out of me (I had never seen the guy and didn't even know his name until I saw it on the later police report)! I pulled out my trusty Pepper Power and let him have it right in the side of his head! That stopped him in his tracks!!
Long story short, I now have a restraining order against the guy who not only threatened to kill my dog, and me but also had a house full of guns that the police confiscated under the terms of the order.
Since then, I've been VERY successful convincing some big ugly opossums and a couple of raccoons to pass the trash cans around HERE!!
STACY & Jack Russell CASSIE
Ellenton, FL
I returned to my apartment in Vancouver, WA and walked in on someone attempting to break into my apartment. The man was about 6' 3" and I'm guessing was over 200 pounds. When he saw me, he came after me. I dropped what I was carrying and reached for my keys, where I always carry a UDAP Key Chain pepper spray. I sprayed the intruder and he immediately dropped to the ground. He didn't move! Luckily a Clark County deputy came on his nightly patrol and I flagged him down. He was quite impressed with the pepper spray. I later found out that the intruder was drunk and had cocaine in his system. I truly believe that little canister of pepper spray saved me that night!
Elizabeth Herdina, Vancouver, Washington.
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