NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/misc/consumer/16334

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From: [e-mail] (Joel Upchurch  )
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Personal protection (was Re: PARALYZER CS tear gas)
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 01:45:08 EDT
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Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL
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[e-mail] (Gary Fritz (tmp)) writes:

> FYI:  I saw in the Denver Rocky Mountain News this morning that a company
> in Denver is selling a pepper-based "bear repellent".  The article claimed
> the stuff is "10 times stronger than police-issue" repellents.  Seems like
> if it would stop a bear, it would probably make a human assailant think twice
> Biggest problem was, it's about the size of a can of hairspray.  Not somethin
> you'd keep in your pocket.  Purse, maybe?

The bear repellents I've seen use 10% OC (An extract from cayenne peppers).
While most of the civilian sprays only use 1% OC, all the police departments
I've heard about use 5% sprays. While there may be a police department
somewhere using a 1% spray, I'd take the statment as somewhat misleading.
I'm not at all sure that a 10% spray is actually more effective than a 5%
spray and I've heard reports that the 10% sprays tend to clog up, which
would be bad. While OC sprays are supposed to fairly effective is repelling
animals, I wouldn't want to test it against a bear if there was any other
reasonable alternative available.

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