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uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

my friend had a really bad experience last night.

where can someone get pepper spray in seoul?

or brass knuckles or an AK-47 or something else?

but pepper spray will suffice.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

no, real advice please. my friend got attacked and this is a serious request, nerd.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

please tell us more of what happened?

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Here's the place for Pepper Spray, and I saw it still was for sale there as of last Friday:

The 7-11 store just across from the Goldfish Bar in Itaewon (and across from the Manhattan restaurant, which is under reconstruction, or something).

It's on the wall behind the check-out person.

Konundrum · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Boston

you can also get all kinds of brass knucks in Songtan from the street vendor dudes...and switchblades...and butterfly knives...not that I would ever suggest buying or using them.

AdamH · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:29 am Post subject:

Hmm...I'm sure the weapons are all very fun (though I wouldn't recommend them either) but the idea of pepper spray is to cause temporary, reversible damage, right? Just give a thought to what kind of �� you might be in after using any of these things.

Peace out,

Sensible Pipe-and-Slippers Dad

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

joelseymour · Joined: 18 Apr 2005

I am sorry to hear that your friend had a bad experience. After I read your post I conducted some world class research on your behalf. You may find this website useful when looking for some top notch pepper spray:

http://www.defensedevices.com/worhotpepspr.html

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

Hey, just a thought, but Korea is mighty fucking windy. In a wind, Pepper spray can become useless or harmful to the user. Further, if your against a brave and/or fighting type of person they may take the spray (or knife, or AK) from your hands and go to town on ya with them. SO what to do?
My suggestion is two fold 1) sign up for a self-defense class, not Tae Kwon do or Kumdo which are flashy but kinda pointless in a fight (at first- chill high rankers), and go with thai boxing or Jiu jitsu witch will teach you enough to run away. Secondly, until you get those skills built up, order a sonic self defense canister online. They are a device kinda similar to an aimable ultra high powerer air horn. Easy, non-lethal and effective. Just remember, once you incapacitate the perp- RUN. Do NOT stay and whup on them to get back at them- that is illegal in the US, Canada (probably), and Korea (if you're a waygooken then certainly).

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

paperbag princess · Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: veggie hell

i'm sorry to hear about your friend.

isn't this a forum for english teachers? how come so many posters here don't understand the simple literary device of hyperbole? obviously uberscheisse is upset and not going to use an AK 47 on someone.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

To the OP, have you followed up on Derrek's lead on the pepper gas gun? (BTW, it amazes me that these things are sold at 7-11s. I thought I recall them being banned years ago, but now you can buy them at convenience stores?! Confused

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Uber... Sean... You say this was a random attack, so I'll assume the attacker and your friend didn't know each other. Without going into more detail than you or she would prefer, could you tell me a little more of the nature of the attack. Does she live or work in a seedy/dangerous area, or ... i dunno ... was she walking home alone late at night, dark alleys, etc.? Specifically, would you say that her biggest fear now that this same attacker knows where she lives/works and will come after her again? Or does she (understandably, perhaps) now simply fear any male stranger, whatever the location or circumstances?

Why am I asking? Well, mainly because the relative absence of random violence is one of Korean society's saving graces, and incidents which suggest this may be changing are, I think, worth everyone's concern.

I've had girlfriends, as well as girl_friends, who've been attacked or nearly attacked by taxi drivers, landlords, employers, strangers at nightclubs, strangers in alleys, etc., and there's not a single incident that didn't set my blood boiling. If I posted here hoping to get some advice & help right after one of those incidents, I'm sure I'd be at least as overwrought as Uberscheisse may have felt. People might want to cut him a bit of slack right now. He's a decent sort from what I can tell, and this isn't the time to score points off him in a debate.