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I know it sounds reasonable to use (or threaten to use) gasoline as a deterrent or weapon, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Once you start splashing the gasoline towards the bad guy, there are two BIG things you have to worry about.
One is where the bad guy is going to go. If he ain't right in the head, or if he's really smart, he's going to come toward YOU as quickly as he can. Then what?
Second, if you're recommending gasoline as a weapon, and you're being serious about it...you've probably never played with gasoline.
The fumes from gasoline are HEAVY. Take a dinner plate, fill it with water and drop one drop of food coloring into the center of the plate. Notice how quickly the color spreads out in all directions? That's what happens with gasoline vapor...you know, the flammable gasoline vapor.
Just one quick squirt of fuel onto the ground will create enough flammable vapor to completely cover an area the size of your car.
I'm a little surprised you didn't offer to introduce his posterior to Mr. Fire Extinguisher. I hear he can be rather convincing and has somewhat of a reputation in that neighborhood.
I've had interesting encounters with folks in neighborhoods you wouldn't expect like the Giant Eagle parking lot in Upper Arlington at night. Fortunately the guy who was asking me for "help" was more easily dissuaded by my firm and less than cheerful attitude and quickly moved on to other places as I went in to inform the officer on duty of the aggressive pan handler outside.
Keep your guard up even in low crime areas. There's no truly safe places out there. Even in Upper Arlington where the average LEO response time is under 3 minutes... even that can seem like a lifetime when seconds matter.
One need not involve fire or even completely douse a person to use it as a weapon. Sprayed towards the face it is almost immediately blinding and full of fun respiratory effects. That said it still wouldn't be my primary choice of weapon.
MyWifeSaidYes wrote:One is where the bad guy is going to go. If he ain't right in the head, or if he's really smart, he's going to come toward YOU as quickly as he can. Then what?
I'm going to spray him in the face and eyes. How's he going know where I am?
Life comes at you fast. Be prepared to shoot it in the head when it does.
djthomas wrote:One need not involve fire or even completely douse a person to use it as a weapon. Sprayed towards the face it is almost immediately blinding and full of fun respiratory effects. That said it still wouldn't be my primary choice of weapon.
In Chiraq, it's about your ONLY choice of weapon, other than the car itself.
Life comes at you fast. Be prepared to shoot it in the head when it does.
The 41-year-old Akron man told officers he was pumping gas when a masked person approached him with a knife, demanding money, according to a news release.
The taxi driver reacted by spraying gasoline on the robber, the release states. The masked robber left with two others in a tan Honda.
Evan... Had you not been armed that morning, would you have still shopped for gas and gone to that "questionable" area?
Though "Tweed's Iron Triangle" is something to follow, I must say that I believe I subconsciously feel the triangle a bit tamer than I should when armed. Although in reality, I know it not to be the case.
Being armed changes NOTHING in the environment, but will offer me a FALSE sense of security.
I am glad you were armed regardless of your answer....
Unarmed people are vulnerable people, and criminal predators prey upon them.
AWRHawkin
"A story about a bird stealing a knife from a crime scene...and we're more interested in hearing about the Canadian with a gun.
Man, we need to get lives."
MWSY