I was watching that goofy MTV show “Jackass” a while back, and this guy on the show let himself get hit by a taser, then a stun gun (the one you have to touch the person with) and then pepper spray.
What does it feel like to be hit by this stuff?
I have a lot of friends who carry those little stun guns, and am half tempted to take a jolt just to see what it’s like. (of course I would be drunk first).
Also, has anyone been hit by a rubber bullet or beanbag round, like the cops use?
just curious…
I read a “diary” site a while back where a class of martial artists were testing stun guns on themselves. Their conclusions was that they are painful (like a bee sting) and make you jump, but the main effect is surprise. They don’t knock you out or paralyse you or anything like that.
As for pepper spray, I don’t know. I have accidentally inhaled a fair bit of ammonia and my entire respiratory system rebelled in a manner that dropped me to the floor for about half a minute. I don’t reccomend it.
Hmmm… intersting, as I understood it stun guns were made to knock you on your ass, maybe they were using the weaker type. Also I understand that pepper spray is pretty easy to get used to. I know that a couple of my buddies were put in the gas chamber in the Army so they know what it’s like to get hit with pepper spray so it can’t be THAT bad.
Oh man! Pepper spray is horrible! I was exposed to it at a dance club one night a few years ago. Apparently, some ass had opened up with it on the dance floor, seemingly for no reason whatsoever. The sprayer was never identified.
I was dancing about 15 yards away from the area the pepper spray cannister was later found. First I noticed my throat was burning, then my lungs. Shortly, my throat felt like it was constricting, my eyes began to tear up and I began to cough uncontrollably. I realized about that time that most of the people on the dance floor was also coughing and making for the front door at the urging of a bouncer, who was shooing people out of the bar.
They fully evacuated the bar and then had to ventilate it for about 40 minutes before they’d let anyone back in. It was rotten. It was winter in Colorado, and they’d rushed about a 150 sweaty dancers at various levels of intoxication outside into the cold. Most of us hadn’t been able to get back to our tables for things like our coats, money, cigarettes, etc… We just had to stand outside, huddle close, and steam, both literally and figuratively.
Given the reaction I experienced from the small exposure I recieved, I shudder to think what it would actually be like to get hit with it in the face or anywhere for that matter! I have to say though, I’m not certain if the muscles of my throat was actually constricting or if it just felt that was as the mucous membranes of my trachea became inflamed. Hard to say, but it seems like if that were a common reaction, it wouldn’t be so non-lethal.
I know a friend of mine was also subjected to tear gas and pepper spray while in the military. He claimed to be immune to it, but I doubt that. Trained to retain function despite its effects, perhaps, but immune? For the average person, it is that bad, that’s why its popular with law enforcement, its incapicitating.
back when I worked for my dad, the jeweler, I picked up an interesting looking Pen, and said “what’s this?” as he said “put that down” - something squirted in my eyes. Damn it hurt. He called the local police and explained “gee, if some one were to ** have ** mace, purely hypothetical you understand…”
yea, I wasn’t moving for quite a while, and that was with water rinsing out my eyes promptly, would imagine if you were hit with it on a street where you didn’t have anything to rinse 'em out, you’d be stranded for a while. I don’t recommend trying it for fun.
I found the site!
http://www.middlebury.edu/~jswan/martial.arts/pages/stun.html
If it’s true, stun guns really don’t live up to their hype. Though what we really need is for Klaatu to try it and see!
CS gas was used extensively in attempts at crowd control in Northern Ireland but it lost much of its effectiveness as people became resistant to it.
It was withdrawn from use periodically and the resistance reduced however when it was used again it took much less time to become less effective.
For reasons I won’t go into:
I have been exposed to a small whiff of CS gas. It felt like my eyes and nose were on fire, moving down to the throat. It did not make it hard to breathe, but was like I had a fire on my face.
I have been shocked through the thumb with a powerful stun gun. It felt like a nail had been blasted through me, but the pain went away in five minutes or so.
Some months back, a reporter with the local news allowed himself to be blasted with a variety of pepper-spray-like products to see if they really could stop an attacker. In the promos, he got a full-face blast, but it didn’t visibly affect him. Sadly, I missed the actual report.
Interesting this should come up; just yesterday, I read a news item about a new weapon for police, a gun that fires a sponge-bullet. They say it feels like a punch from a pro boxer, but doesn’t penetrate.