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Miss Cellania — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:27:17 +0000

Doc Pop spent seven hours creating this LEGO diorama featuring Lt. Pike pepper-spraying a line of protesting UC Davis students. It was installed in one the many abandoned newspaper bins in San Francisco. Someone removed it less than four hours later, but the photographs remain. Link -via Boing Boing

Real Life Keystone Kop Pepper-Sprayed Self, Got Tased by Partner

Alex — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:02:02 +0000

A routine call turned out to be something straight out of Keystone Kops for two Cornwall policemen. It all started with a report of disturbance …

Police constable Jason Mepham was responding to a disturbance call in Redruth last month when things took a turn for the slapstick.

The officer, confronted by Jason King, whipped out his pepper spray and doused the suspect. Then a second blast blew back into the cop’s eyes, temporarily blinding him, according to The Independent. A second officer grabbed King, but another perp at the scene punched Mepham in the face, dislocating his jaw.

The other officer released King and fired his Taser at the new assailant. One of the electrodes hit the perp, but the other struck Mepham. Mepham collapsed and King allegedly kicked him in the face — strangely relocating the cop’s jaw.

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South African ATMs Are Weaponized with Pepper Spray

Alex — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:08:30 +0000

South Africa is apparently one really dangerous place. Case in point: ATMs there are weaponized – yep, weaponized – with pepper spray. What could go wrong? Apparently, this:

The technology uses cameras to detect people tampering with the card slots. Another machine then ejects pepper spray to stun the culprit while police response teams race to the scene.

But the mechanism backfired in one incident last week when pepper spray was inadvertently inhaled by three technicians who required treatment from paramedics.

Patrick Wadula, spokesman for the Absa bank, which is piloting the scheme, told the Mail & Guardian Online: "During a routine maintenance check at an Absa ATM in Fish Hoek, the pepper spray device was accidentally activated.

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Previously on Neatorama: Anti Car Jacking Flame Thrower Car Mod

Canadian Man Got Pepper Sprayed in the Face for Asking US Border Agent to Say Please

Alex — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:31:08 +0000

Desiderio Fortunato is a stickler for courtesy and respect. But when the Canadian man asked a US Border agent to be polite and say "please," he got something unexpected: pepper spray to his face!

He said he was questioned by a border officer who demanded he turn off his car and, when asked to make the request more politely, threatened to spray him with his pepper gun if he did not comply.

“I just felt I should stand my ground about it. I should not be treated like that. No matter what kind of position you are in, if you want respect you have to show respect,” he said Tuesday. “I asked him three times and when I didn’t turn the car off, because he didn’t say please, he pepper sprayed me … It was terrible. For half an hour or so I couldn’t see anything.”

Link (Photo: Smaku [Flickr])