Defense for a woman, perhaps even for a man.

Here is an interesting email I received recently. It is helpful in instances where the attacker is stronger or better armed that you. So, do read on and if you follow the advice, it may save you from danger someday.

I know some of you own guns but this is something, especially for the ladies, to think about.

If you do not have a gun, here’s a more humane way to wreak someone’s evil plan. Do you know anything about a wasp spray? I didn’t. I never really thought of it before. I guess I can get rid of the heavy, difficult to manage baseball bat or whatever that I had thought of.

You see, a friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the local police department about using pepper spray and they recommended that she get herself a can of wasp spray instead.

What’s the difference, you would likely ask. Well, the wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, the attacker would have to be close to be effective. He would be too close to you and there is the possibility of overpowering you. The wasp spray temporary blinds an attacker until he can get to a hospital for an antidote.

The above receptionist keeps a can of wasp spray on her desk in the office and it does not attract any attention from people like a can of pepper spray would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection. Well, this wasp spray ought to be of use someday.

On the heels of a break-in and beating that left an elderly woman in Toledo dead, self-defense experts have this tip that could save a life.

According to the email I received, a person who teaches self-defense to students at a certain high school had for decades suggested putting a can of wasp and hornet spray near the door or bed.

This instructor has said, “This is better than anything I can teach them.” Well, if he did say that, I must admit that there is a lot of truth and wisdom in those words. And to say that requires great courage.

This instructor considers the wasp spray inexpensive, easy to find and more effective than mace or pepper spray. The can typically shoot twenty to thirty feet; so if someone tries to break into your home, spray the culprit in the eyes. It is a tip he has given his students for decades.

Using the spray will give the possible victim a chance to call the police or maybe escape from the attacker, and this can possibly save a life.

Since such a wasp spray can come in useful especially in our present times when danger still lurks at unknown places in our lives, there is not harm having one ready just in case.

Of course, we ought to test it for the accuracy and distance it can be effective perhaps on a pole twenty feet away. Knowledge of this would give us the ability to judge when and at what distance we can really use it.

According to the email, the wasp spray could even given protection against a snake besides the wasp.




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