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When You Are Attacked
A Pepper Gun Is Your Best
Friend
I know a man who delivers newspapers
very early in the morning – by very early I mean in the 4
a.m. to 5 a.m. timeframe. No matter what the time of year,
it will still be dark at that hour.
You wouldn’t expect to see
many people up and about at that time of the morning.. But
whenever there is darkness, potential danger is in the air.
It brings out the predators, crooks and crazed dope addicts
who are so desperate they will do anything for money to pay
for their next fix.
Unfortunately, the
newspaper delivery man, let’s call him Ralph, had the
misfortune of serving papers in a neighborhood where one of
these dopers wandered the streets, plotting to do whatever
was necessary to grab some money from someone to underwrite
another drug purchase.
Flipping a folded newspaper
from a moving automobile is quite an art, particularly when
you are also driving the car and throwing the newspaper over
the roof of the car and onto a driveway with your left hand,
even though you are right-handed, as Ralph is. It is
totally foreign to me, a former newspaper boy from decades
ago, who walked his route and flipped the papers
under-handed, aiming for a porch, and usually hitting the
mark.
Even though Ralph delivered
his newspapers from his automobile, and rarely had to exit
the car, there were always two or three customers whose
needs were such that he did have to get out of the car to
“custom deliver” their papers. Usually, it was due to an
injury or ailment that prevented the customers from
retrieving their papers from the end of the driveway, so
Ralph would walk up and place it where they could reach it
easily.
The doper who was on the
prowl happened to observe Ralph over a few days’ period when
he had to pull into a driveway, leave his car (with motor
running and door open to save time) and move swiftly to the
house, deposit the paper, and hurry back to his car. The
out-of-his-senses user felt that with proper timing he could
hide nearby, rush to the car when Ralph was at the house,
and drive off with the automobile, which should bring a
decent dollar on the black market.
He underestimated Ralph’s
quickness and his athletic skills, not to mention his
alertness. Ralph was always aware that he was a potential
victim as he made his way through the community, so he was
always prepared for something to happen. As soon as he
sensed movement in the bushes closest to his car, he was
running at full speed back to the vehicle, at the same time
reaching into a holster he always carried at his side.
Ralph reached the car
almost simultaneously with the would-be thief, who was
carrying a wrench and preparing to use on him, not realizing
that Ralph was “packing.” It wasn’t a real gun he had in
his hand, but a mace pepper gun, which he immediately used
on the doper. The lost soul who was looking for a “fix”
instead got a jolt of pepper spray from the mace pepper gun
that brought him to his knees. Without missing a beat,
Ralph called 911 on his cell phone.
Within minutes the police
were hauling away the dope user and Ralph continued on his
paper route, his confidence bolstered by the knowledge that
the mace pepper gun he carried was the perfect protection
for him.
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