Girlfriend Walking at Night Safety Discussion

Most campuses will not allow carrying of guns, so I won't suggest that.

• She should be carrying spray of some sort. My favorite is a double squirt Kimber (looks like a water gun) and delivers two heavy blasts of hot pepper spray.
• Redline makes good 3 aaa cell LED flashlights. Super bright and they have a blinding strobe option.
• Many key chains have been suggested and they are all good.

If a woman is shot with her own weapon, she was scared to use it and shouldn't have been carrying in the first place. If your female is scared to or thinks she can't handle shooting someone, she shouldn't be carrying a gun anyway. Check your local LAWS (not rules) regarding carrying on campus before you make that an option.

Good luck.

Use these to tint windows , after she cuts them make sure she tells them that they are minutes from bleeding out . Teach her to also Take their wallet / money before cops get there . The best thing the cut is surgical so if they do survive its not to bad of a scar . Each blade has 13 clicks so she can keep cutting perps for awhile .

JohnInKansas wrote: Disagree with this. Having been on the receiving end, they SUCK.

Different people have different degrees of sensitivity, and it does matter where you get hit with it. I've certainly never found the various gasses to be pleasant, but I've never been incapacitated by them either.

I still maintain that those cute little keychain cans are not worth a darn for self defense. To hard to deploy and insufficient duration.

foxtrapper wrote:

JohnInKansas wrote: Disagree with this. Having been on the receiving end, they SUCK.

Different people have different degrees of sensitivity, and it does matter where you get hit with it. I've certainly never found the various gasses to be pleasant, but I've never been incapacitated by them either.

^ Agree with this. My neighbor is ex-Army, and he said he was once inadvertently pepper-sprayed by an overzealous bouncer in a bar. While those around him were laying on the floor crying, he was like "Dude, why did you do that?" He described part of his Army training as being repetitively exposed to some sort of noxious gas and still be able to function. Me? I'd be laying on the floor crying.

foxtrapper wrote: I still maintain that those cute little keychain cans are not worth a darn for self defense. To hard to deploy and insufficient duration.

I sell these. They are the cheap option. I agree, but not completely. If you get Sabre, they have tear gas in it as well, so if it doesn't burn, it will choke the E36 M3 out of you. They have a range of about ten feet. I have a friend who makes products for them and see what she suggests

Do you all live in Rapeville USA? I understand that it happens, but being robbed is way more common, and I don't know many people that are scared of being robbed just from being outdoors at night. I'm not saying throw caution to the wind, but even if you're being a complete idiot the chances of being raped are slim. Watch your back, be aware of your surroundings, don't be an idiot, and you're probably not going to get raped.

Karl La Follette wrote: after she cuts them make sure she tells them that they are minutes from bleeding out . Teach her to also Take their wallet / money before cops get there .

Sounds like SHE just robbed HIM.

Per Schroeder wrote:

thatsnowinnebago wrote: I was at a Rage Against the Machine show. It was one of the worst things ever. I have no idea how you can do anything other than cough your insides out and cry like a little girl after getting hit with that stuff.

FTFY.

^^^ That's funny

Osterkraut wrote:

poopshovel wrote: Jesus christ. You guys are berkeleying retarded. "Car." is the answer. Or "Megaphone." Seriously. Who's gonna try to rape a bitch carrying a megaphone? Or "Sledgehammer" (see also: megaphone.) "Self Defense Class" is a cute answer. My wife's best friend stopped talking to me for about a year. She had come to visit, and her new big thing (after blowing $X0,000 of het folks' money on massage therapy school,) was "Self-defense" She'd been "training" for two years, and her instructor (who I'm guessing was simply trying to knock the panties off,) supposedly wanted her to get some bs certification to TEACH self defense. I politely, patiently listened to how this was the greatest thing since sliced bread. How she was going to make ass loads of money teaching other women how to defend themselves. I listened to E36 M3 about pressure points, and this and that and the other GD thing for hours - politely...patiently. Until (x) vodka tonics in, when I said something to the effect of "Let's say my 200 lb. ass wants to put your 120 lb. ass on the ground? How would you stop me?" Her eyes lit up. I mean like Christmas berkeleying morning. I was actually expecting to get hurt. Some kind of nut punch or spock pinch or Gracie style some E36 M3, but being all sex-crazed and retard strong, I didn't care. We go into the living room, and she says "Grab me from behind." (hawt.) She's got her arms up like I'm going to give her a hug or something. I put her arms down by her side while squeezing her abdomen. She says "No, not that way!" I start laughing. "Not THAT way!? Is that what you're going to say to your rapist?" She gets mad, tries to wiggle down. I stop her with my knee. "Now what?" I say. Her response was "I don't want to hurt you," to which I said "Put my ass in the hospital," and tightened up on her a little. She tried to use my weight/momentum against me, move me around, toss me over her shoulder, etc. She struggled till her face got really red and I said "Do I really need to put you on the ground, or are we done?" She didn't talk to me for a long time...she also didn't become a self defense instructor. If a girl who's taken a self-defense class and can scream "NO KITTY BAD KITTY" real loud and stop you, you're not a very good rapist. NOW, my 120 lb., works out 2 hours a day with a trainer and deadlifts (no_bullE36 M3,) 300lbs. fine-ass sister in law? I'd PAY to see a motherberkeleyer try to take her down. I digress. If GF doesn't like guns, don't push the gun thing. The 'self-defense' thing is cute. Get her a car or a megaphone...or a sledge. Or just pound 80 different chicks and walk them to their cars. You're in college ferrchrissake. Why the hell would you have a 'girlfriend?'

Would you like to enter a civil union with me?

Nah. My horse says the only 3-way he'll engage in would have to be with another horse, and I'm all "Ewww, that's gross."

I have a she-horse

I agree that the best defense is not to put yourself in an unsafe situation. Doesn't matter how fit/fast you are, if someone who weighs 150 lbs more than you takes you by surprise, your chances of getting away are pretty slim.

Introduce her to the women's rugby team. Rugby players don't get messed with.

Have her carry around a shotgun. People carrying shotguns don't get messed with.

JohnInKansas wrote: Introduce her to the women's rugby team. Rugby players don't get messed with.

Pretty sure they also don't, you know, like dudes. No need to shoot oneself in the weiner, you know?

Lesley wrote: I have a she-horse I agree that the best defense is not to put yourself in an unsafe situation. Doesn't matter how fit/fast you are, if someone who weighs 150 lbs more than you takes you by surprise, your chances of getting away are pretty slim.

Maybe me and my horse and you and your horse can get together....

Just talked to a Sabre employee. Their preparing to release their pepper gel that is not effected by a light wind like spray is. It would be another option.

poopshovel wrote:

JohnInKansas wrote: Introduce her to the women's rugby team. Rugby players don't get messed with.

Pretty sure they also don't, you know, like dudes. No need to shoot oneself in the weiner, you know?

It worked out okay for me. Three years of college rugby later, she's still straight and I don't have to worry about her walking by herself after dark. YMMV, though.

Also, it the same line of thinking as bright flashlights, what about those compressed-air horns? Not incapacitating, but at close range might be painful enough to allow a few moments for escape.

Wouldn't work if the assailant was deaf.

Per Schroeder wrote:

thatsnowinnebago wrote: I was at a Rage Against the Machine show. It was one of the worst things ever. I have no idea how you can do anything other than cough your insides out and cry like a little girl after getting hit with that stuff.

FTFY.

lol.

In reply to JohnInKansas:

Do you want to carry a big ole air horn around?

16vCorey wrote: Do you all live in Rapeville USA? I understand that it happens, but being robbed is way more common, and I don't know many people that are scared of being robbed just from being outdoors at night. I'm not saying throw caution to the wind, but even if you're being a complete idiot the chances of being raped are slim. Watch your back, be aware of your surroundings, don't be an idiot, and you're probably not going to get raped.

Sorry about that time I raped you in Florida.

N Sperlo wrote: Do you want to carry a big ole air horn around?

Hell yes. The bigger the better.

Especially if I'm allowed to use it indiscriminately.

In reply to Salanis:

Next time I'll be sure to exclude you from the poll.

DILYSI Dave wrote:

16vCorey wrote: Do you all live in Rapeville USA? I understand that it happens, but being robbed is way more common, and I don't know many people that are scared of being robbed just from being outdoors at night. I'm not saying throw caution to the wind, but even if you're being a complete idiot the chances of being raped are slim. Watch your back, be aware of your surroundings, don't be an idiot, and you're probably not going to get raped.

Sorry about that time I raped you in Florida.

Eh, you saw the way I was dressed, I was asking for it!

@Sperlo: Doesn't seem like it would be a bad purse weapon if you were squeamish about mace or a gun.

I don't carry a purse, so no, I wouldn't carry one.

In reply to JohnInKansas:

get you a good ole horn holster. Hey, I'll star selling those.

Btw, we have a button instead of doing that @ thing. Wuddya think dis iz? Facespace?