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pepper spray may be illegal, but a large pot of black ground pepper left forgotten in your bag after a long ago trip to tescoes isn't.

thanks Ladysaw and everyone, my son is remarkably stoic about the whole thing, like a gazelle given a fright at the watering hole by a jackal, shaken but keen to rejoin the herd.

Hope he is ok -

Did the police catch them..?

I found this from 'nunhead_man' post above -

http://www.selfdefenceweaponsuk.co.uk/legal-pepper-spray-uk

and also this:

http://www.ukpreppersguide.co.uk/uk-legal-pepper-spray-alternative-for-women

its a red dye criminal identifier spray.

They are both good articles - I have bought some for my family to carry now.

This was years ago so not sure what the law says now, but remember a police officer telling my school that itnis a crime to carry any weapon, and (this is the bit that stuck with me) if an old lady carried sone salt or pepper in her bag just in case, she could in theory be prosecuted.


I suspect they wouldn't actually prosecute, but it's interesting.

Dirt in the face, making out you're going to be sick, shouting out 'excuse me officer'


All these can work.




Jeremy Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > if an old lady carried some salt or pepper in

> her bag

>

> Is this some kind of typo? Or are you really

> saying that salt and pepper would deter a knife

> wielding mugger?

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