Hi all,
I live in a super cold area with low humidity. There's been a very notable rise in carjackings and road rage incidents turned to streetfights in my area in the past year or so. I have considered CCP but I think it's a bit of overkill for what I'm looking for. I've searched around and found a massive variety of stun guns, batons, bear maces, etc. Problem is that batteries don't generally love the below-freezing weather and I would struggle to remember to bring my stun gun/taser to the car each morning, and I don't know the first thing about batons so I'm flying blind here.
Does anyone have a suggestion of a non-lethal that's pretty compact that I can keep in my car with me? Open to everything, just skeptical with cold-weather performance on batteries and mace. Could use a little help if anyone can!
Okay so I need to know something because this is really starting to bother me , so there was a homecoming parade last week along with a homecoming game that me and my friends all decided to carpool and go to , she had just got out of a toxic relationship and he still would be weird and stalk her , he graduated last year and she is a junior he waited outside of the school the other day looking for her , so fast forward to later in the day , I’m riding with her (she’s driving) and my other friend , he starts following our car no matter where we go , then we try to turn around and he pulls in front of the car and tries to pull me out , I am much stronger than him so I just pulled the door shut and locked the door (I’m 15 he’s 19) he starts saying death threats like “do you want to die today” and “I’ll kill you bitch” which I simply brushed off because I believe he’s all bark no bite , he has 3 guns in his car so I can’t really beat his ass and then feel safe to walk because I’ve been told by multiple people that he is crazy in the head , so yesterday I was told by this girl that he got in her car at a gas station and the only way she could get him to get out , was by punching him in the eye, now tommorow we are all hanging out and I’m bringing a knife if he attacks me I will cut him , I need to know how much trouble will this put me in or what are so good measures to take to get him to leave us alone , because I will hurt him if he tries to cause harm to me , when In fact I’ve never meet this guy before in my life
Walking on a well lit sidewalk at night (around 630pm) and walked through a group of guys on bikes- they were on the side of the sidewalk and we did not engage them. They were likely mid 20s and one was on a bike. We walked past and as we get past the guy on the bike comes up behind my husband and slaps him in the back of the head. He then tried to instigate a fight and me being 27 weeks pregnant tried to de escalate. The guy slapped my husband in the face twice- pretty hard. Glad my husband kept his cool and we walked away but are pretty shaken up. I know we did the right thing by not escalating it as we were both outnumbered and I’m not in any position to defend myself. My husband is 5’5 and athletic and I’m shorter. I think part of the reason they felt emboldened was partly due to this too. The guys buddies stood back but were there.
I just don’t know what we could have done to avoid this, 9: prevent it in the future, and am feeling pretty helpless. Looked into mace and tasers but wanted to hear from you guys. We are in Boston and the area we live in has had an uptick in street assaults, robberies, etc.
I'm a small female who can only lift and carry about 20 pounds. I know I'm weak and am slowly working on it. The thing is that I also have major anxiety and have to either take a Uber/Lyft to work or walk 15 minutes(in the dark) to a bus and then walk another 5 minutes.
I don't mind the walk except that it IS so dark. There's no streetlamps out here. It's a residential neighborhood but we have a lot of drug use and gangs out here. With my anxiety, I keep thinking someone is going to come up behind me.
The Uber/Lyft scares me since I keep hearing so many horror stories about the driver hurting the passenger. My husband puts his name on our account so they don't know that they're picking up a female until later.
What can I do? Is there any simple Self defense I can being so weak? Which option is better? Walking with the bus or Ridesharing?
250+ lb deer just rushed my dog ... all I could think to do was run at it and throw a punch while being loud to scare him.
Am I aloud to shoot that fucker? Luckily my dog got out of the way and didn't get injured. And my tactics worked for the most part ... but he's still lingering outside and im scared for my animals.
