Pepper Spray or Stun Gun?

[sportage]

Neighbor, good friend, she starts working nights next week in banking check processing. 4pm to 1am. Bad thing is, their employee parking is 3 blocks away, a huge lot located under a bridge-viaduct area. Lighted but pretty creepy never the less. And there have been strange people lurking under these bridges-viaduct areas in the past. Many years ago in the late 1970's a lady was actually murdered in the same parking lot.
At one time, bank security accompanied clusters of late night workers to the lot.
No more. Not enough security staff on duty to leave the premisses.

So, anywho... She was asking friends/neighbors if it was better to carry pepper spray or a stun gun for safety?
Naturally, the bank will not allow a gun or concealed gun on bank premisses. So a gun is out of the question.

I recommended pepper spray. A stun gun sounds scary BUT you have to actually touch your assailant. Then again, pepper spray needs to hit its target, and being this is at night, that takes pretty good aim.

So I asked myself (on her behalf), pepper spray or stun gun?
Or something else ????

 

[Patranus]

Why wont the bank let her get a CCW?

Anyways, a Taser would be her best bet.

 

[sportage]

A gun is not an option with this bank.
If they discovered she carried a gun, immediate termination.
I guess the bank feels every employee is a potential psycho.
Its just not an option.
I feel it should fall under bank securities duty. Hire more staff if you have this kind of situation.
Women working nights, parking located off premisses.

PS. Her new boss suggested a pocket siren device.
Yeah...right....

 

[rommelrommel]

Well... I would vote taser as long as its an actual taser and not a stupid stun gun. The cheap ones hurt but an actual taser incapacitates.

Pepper spray works ok, but you do need to get them in the eyes and its not incapacitating.

Can the employees at least leave work in groups? Or call a cab maybe...

 

[DCal430]

Are you sure they would consider a Taser a gun?

 

[blankslate]

Why not both?

there's no kill like overkill.

I guess it might just be too much of a hassle for a bank to have employees check their CCW when they get to the establishment if they would rather have only the bank guard armed and not other employees.... that discussion could open a whole can of worms though.

My vote is for both.

a Hello Kitty Taser is all sorts of awesome though as long as it's a model that is in the top tier of voltage delivery.

 

[Jeeebus]

She can just keep a gun in her car and, if attacked on the street, remember to politely ask her attackers to hold on a sec while she puts her things down in the car. BAM.

 

[TallBill]

Neither. Neither will work. I've posted a really long post regarding the multiple reasons why but Im on tapatalk so my searching is limited.

 

[TallBill]

Why wont the bank let her get a CCW?

Anyways, a Taser would be her best bet.

Cartridge based tasers are illegal and contact tasers are silly. Any attacker is easily going to overcome a taser or OC spray. A firearm or unarmed self defense training are the only options that actually help against attackers.

 

[brainhulk]

krav maga

 

[boochi]

Pepper spray is the better option here as a taser has two shots and a scared woman is likely to have trouble hitting the target. A good sized can of spray can discharge for a good 20-30 seconds easily and has a much better effective range.

 

[LookBehindYou]

I have been tazed, hit with an electronic riot shield (for forced cell extraction), OC Spray, and Foam. I will take any type of tazing over OC spray any day of the week. The effects of a taze quickly go away, the spray, not so much. Don't even get me started on the foam...that shit sucked!!! So my reccomendation is by the spray.

 

[brainhulk]

I have been tazed, hit with an electronic riot shield (for forced cell extraction), OC Spray, and Foam. I will take any type of tazing over OC spray any day of the week. The effects of a taze quickly go away, the spray, not so much. Don't even get me started on the foam...that shit sucked!!! So my reccomendation is by the spray.

do you participate in a lot of unlawful protests or something? lol

 

[Vdubchaos]

Find another job!

 

[surfsatwerk]

Srsly pepper spray is awful stuff.

 

[brainhulk]

super soaker filled with really spicy curry?

 

[sourceninja]

I'd go pepper spray with actual training on it's use, strengths, and weaknesses.

 

[MotionMan]

Find another job!

That or an anonymous tip/complaint to OSHA or local employees rights group.

MotionMan

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

She's probably just as likely to spray herself as an assailant. Better than a stun gun though.

Look at Fox Labs, pretty much the leader in sprays.

 

[takeru]

lets step it up a notch. BEAR pepper spray.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uK4WZ0Z4k

 

[MontyAC]

Pepper spray and wear sneakers to run.

 

[Ken g6]

Cartridge based tasers are illegal

Why is that? I'd rather have one of those than a gun for self-defense.

Then there's this thing; don't know if it's for sale anywhere.

 

[Ackmed]

I have been tazed, hit with an electronic riot shield (for forced cell extraction), OC Spray, and Foam. I will take any type of tazing over OC spray any day of the week. The effects of a taze quickly go away, the spray, not so much. Don't even get me started on the foam...that shit sucked!!! So my reccomendation is by the spray.

I agree. I would rather be tased 20 times over, than sprayed once. Once the taser is over, you don't hurt anymore and are fully functional. When sprayed, unless you're the very small exception, you are essentially done.

The problem with spray is, you could get yourself or a friend in over spray.

 

[Rakehellion]

I always rely on my mace.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I always rely on my mace.

That's a flail, not a mace...