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Good idea, I still have my old Nelspot 007 and some really old and hard grease based paint! I think you can freeze paintballs too. I'd like to mark some of my neighbors "customers" but would be a little scared of return fire or maybe they'd come over and wipe scabies on me.

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toy guns are a real good way to get shot by people with real guns. including cops.

i sometimes carry a collapsable baton when walking through a bad neighborhood or when out on a long ride, but thats illegal as all heck too.

its a pretty ghetto thing to do, but broken glass on top your wall is a sure-fire way to keep most people out. if its clean, it almost looks artistic. of course, this requires you to have a large concrete wall. and at that rate, your looking at bars on the windows and such.

Once the bars go up, you are pretty much admitting that the neighborhood is unsalvageable. but sometimes thats how it is. everything on the ground level of my neighborhood has bars and security gates, the nicer places have guards.

Me, I just have a top floor window thats better than television.

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Puke, most druggies have sold or hocked their guns a long long time ago. If they were real criminals, with guns, they would not be lurking around at 2am trying to steal gas out of a parked car knowning full well the owner does have guns and is more likely than not willing to use one of them in self defense.

No these guys are just low life trash who thing that they can get away with anything. The cops don't want to do anything about it because of the paper work and added work load. (A sad day indeed when a cop would rather sight some guy for not waring his seat belt, but won't go near a drug house.)

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Yes weapons which are not weapons are best. They also are helpful in claiming that you didnt actually go out armed. Dont carry shurikens, however a bycycle sprocket throws real nice. Dont carry nunchucks but if you know how to use chucks then a dog-leash becomes nasty. And of course swords are a no-no but those camping saws can work just as well
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A few years ago I read in the newspaper about a burglary, the Burglar was catched in the act by the occupants but he managed to get away.

The police arived in 15 minutes and lucky for the police it had started to snow 30 minutes ago. So the only thing they had to do was follow the tracks in the fresh snow to the Burglar's house.....

Really isn't a joke has really happened http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ June 19, 2004, 13:47: Message edited by: Intimidator ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">True story following...

When I was in high school, we had a school wide watergun game. It was supposed to take place off of school grounds, so we had to get people at home, or at work, or wherever. Anyway, I went out an bought one of those water machine guns. It looked exactly like a real Uzi. In those days, they didn't make them out of orange and yellow pLastic. So we went over to this kids house and ambushed him. We were driving back to my house in the back of my friends Samuari (no top) squirting signs and each other in the car. Next thing we know there is a police car behind us. They pull us over, and we hear a loudspeaker telling us to drop our weapons! Obviously, I did as I was told, and thought they were just giving us a hard time until I see one of the cops come up next to the car with his gun pointed at my friends head! Then I became aware that the second officer was pointing his pistol at MY head!

Needless to say, the watergun was trashed the very next day.

It was creepy.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's if you manage to get hit straight in your eyes. If it happens to hit the assailant's skin, with CIVILIAN class pepper spray (3 million scoville units compared to law enforcement class pepper sprays which rank at 5 million scoville units), it'll just give him irritated (albeit very irritated) skin.

Stun guns though, I heard that if you managed to hit your target in the right place, it can cause convulsions and even death? Did I hear that right or is that just hearsay?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Every fe weeks theres another story in the news about some fool getting hit with a Taser(tm) and dieing.

And then their stock goes up.

No joke.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sorry, but about the pepper-spray. You are WRONG !!
When I served in the Dutch Navy, We had some riot training. And all of us had to be hit with that stuff......
Believe me I was out of action for nearly 20 minutes, the only thing I was able to do was to put my head in a bucket of water..........Hell, even when I write this down, the memory of it starts my eyes to water again....... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Inti,

[ June 19, 2004, 12:09: Message edited by: Intimidator ]

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Personally i would go with the glow in the dark paintball idea. Hell, even just a bright coloured one. You hit the guy all you have to do is call the police and tell them there's a guy who just tried to steal from you and is sporting a luminous green splat on his back http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

The only disadvantage to most of these situations is repurcussions, especially if the police aren't going to do anything about it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif At which point I would just keep a big stick or bat near possible entrances. If it wards them off, good, if not you're not unarmed. If someone wants to harm me and breaks onto my property i sure as hell ain't about to serve them tea and crumpets http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif