This is not a joke. NBC News suggests arming yourself with wasp spray for home protection. Or you can press the alarm button on your car remote. And if these tactics fail, just give the intruder what he (or she) wants.
Read: Wasp Spray for Home Protection (This link worked the last time I checked)
Unfortunately, wasp spray didn’t work for a Seattle couple during a home invasion. The husband sprayed the intruder in the eyes with wasp spray, but it had no effect. As they wrestled on the hallway floor, the wife beat the intruder with a baseball bat until it broke. To stop the attacker, the wife retrieved a butcher knife from the kitchen while her husband continued to struggle with the intruder. The husband was unable to restrain the man until the wife stabbed the intruder several times until the knife broke.
Note what happens when items not designed for personal defense are used for personal defense. The wasp spray didn’t stop the attack. The baseball bat didn’t stop the attack and broke. The butcher knife finally stopped the attack, but it also broke. To use the bat and the knife, you have to be close enough to the attacker to be grabbed should your blow miss or not disable the attacker.
While the husband and wife team were fighting with the intruder, the wife’s mother who also lives in the house had immediately called the police. The police arrived in time to write the report.
When the police searched the intruder, the found a video camera and small tripod in his pockets. Further questioning revealed it was the intruder’s intent to video himself raping the woman. He was unaware she had a husband at home. NBC’s recommendation number three, give in to the intruder would not have worked out well for the woman.
I cannot believe people continue to insist you are better off taking on an attacker in hand to hand combat, submitting to the attacker or hoping the police will arrive in time instead of shooting the attacker from a safe distance. Would the trauma from having to shoot an attacker be any worse than having to stab him several times up close and personal?
What if this couple were senior citizens? Or disabled? Or the wife was home alone? Even in this situation, what if there was more than one attacker.
This article was originally published in the Seattle Times because it was news. It has since been deleted because it does not support their anti-gun narrative. A version of this story was available (the last time I checked) on the Daily Mail (United Kingdom) website:
Some of the details in the Daily Mail article are different from those reported by the Seattle Times article I used to write this.
And as far as the legality of using wasp spray for self-defense, the spray can is plainly marked, “It is a violation of Federal Law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. NBC is promoting violating Federal Law?