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Here are 3 stories recently reported by media where a would-be “victim” turned out to be a winner. In all 3 stories young ladies while in desperate predicament fought back with a mere can of pepper spray and saved their dignity and most likely — their lives. 1) Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. Attempted …

Girl with Mace fought off an armed rapist. <%image(20090903-96466cor.jpg|168|168|mace pepper spray defends philadelphia 21 year old girl)%> Philadelphia, PA, September 1 — Media outlets in Philadelphia published an attempted sexual assault story that happened in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. 21 year old girl was returning home from a nearby pizza place and, when entering the …

In the post yesterday about a robber who for no apparent reason pepper sprayed himself I was ROFLMAO-ing and screaming that “..you can not make this stuff up..”. Guess what: “this stuff” just keep on coming. I giggled it out of my system yesterday, so I can’t laugh anymore. Instead, after reading this story from …

You can’t make this stuff up: First there was a report about an attempted robbery of a strip mall hair salon on a slow Monday. The genius behind the heist got his face full of pepper spray from a brave lady customer and could not leave the place fast enough. Now a new report comes …

Armed with a plan, a can of Mace, window alarms and a phone, Laurie Russo managed to catch her mysterious stalker. His phone calls were getting more and more threatening, but since they were short the Police could not find the caller. Instead of getting scared, Laurie Russo got angry and devised a plan to …

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! My family will be with me these Holidays. We all live together and nobody will have to fly to sit down at the dinner table this Thursday. But if a relative who lived afar has decided not to join us this year this would be quite okay with us. If my …

As we were just covering the stun gun and taser law in the state of Illinois in the previous post we got an email from our customer in that state. Steve W. shared his opinion on stun devices and supported his point of view with some recent tragic episode that happened in Illinois. Here is …

I used to be married to an abuser who left me with a leg broken in numerous places and 6 children to take care of. I am college educated and worked for The American Red Cross until my broken leg. I gathered the courage to move myself and children to another city, and the problems …

In Great Britain, pepper sprays, including Mace sprays are illegal to carry and to use. Citizens have started an on-line petition to allow them use these basic self-defense tools: pepper sprays and mace. Here is the text of the on-line petition: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow Citizens to use non-lethal mace…”

Karen Williams, 49, who owned the Appleby’s Produce store was reportedly “sick and tired” of constant burglaries of her delivery truck. After she reported 6 or 7 burglaries night after night, Karen decided "to take care of business" herself…