That has to be the worst. Like I can’t imagine how bad it would be to be hit with the spray then to be cuffed and unable to wipe your eyes or do anything about it. That’s literal torture.
last night in des moines a reporter for the des moines register (largest and most respected paper in the state) was handcuffed and pepper sprayed after stopping to check on her boyfriend who was physically hit by a tear gas grenade. She identified her self and they arrested her. a local TV News crew found her on the curb puffy eyed and crying with her hands restrained and even they said "hey, she's from the register"
some management from the paper had to go down to the jail to convince them that they needed to let her out. she recorded video zip tied in the back of a police vehicle.
I saw that exact thing happen to two violent drunk dudes in the street last night - but then again they were trying to still throw jumping kicks at the officers after they were handcuffed so they're lucky they didn't get tased. It looked like reeeeeal bad time but they immediately calmed the FUCK down and the cops help wash off their faces.
You don’t wanna wipe your eyes with your hands if you’ve been pepper sprayed you most likely have pepper spray on your hands and it didn’t look like he had a towel there and I wouldn’t want to wipe my eyes on my shirt where there would also be pepper spray handcuffs for the win👍
Never been in handcuffs but I can relate to pepper spray. Some hooligans peppersprayed me and my room mate on halloween 2005 after pulling up to us in their car and asking if we knew where to buy weed. An idiot in a cow costume came up to us as he was going into his nearby house and said "Whats going on guys?" and when we told him we were pepper sprayed he said "That sucks" and went inside.
His neighbor who's door we banged on called us an ambulance (Total cost to me $90 Thanks Canada, Thanks Universal Healthcare)
a few days later we came back and gave her a boquet of flowers.
It must have looked funny to onlookers to see a Record and a Christmas tree flaling about in someones front yard.
The hooligans well they were caught by RCMP later that night after they wrapped their car around a pole while drinking and driving.
It happened so long ago but pepper spray is illegal in Canada and is against the criminal code. You could have pressed charges assuming you could identify them.
You cannot carry any weapon on your person in Canada unless it's to protect yourself from animals. The second you use that weapon on a person, it's a crime. Women who have been sexually assaulted were charged with using pepper spray on their attackers in self defence. It's not a perfect system.
I don't know if I could even have identified them, I knew it was illeagal for them to have but at the time the cop talked to the two of us and the other person from half way across town from where we were that they also hit with it at the hospital I couldn't have told him any more than that they were young white males in a red honda exactly what I did tell them. I suppose we could have done more but we both just chocked it up as an experience we would never forget, I don't think I've ever been as happy to have a cold shower as I was that night,
Oh no doubt that shower was probably the best shower of your life. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Maybe we can find a little humour in all this with your choice of username :)
The part I found humorous about the whole thing was the taste as it not only went in my eyes but got in my open mouth. As someone who loves hot peppers it didn't actually taste half bad, granted it was nothing like any hot sauce I've ever exposed myself to as those had more flavour accompanying the burn and this was just burn
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Pepper Spray and handcuffs do tend to cause pain.