Fwd: Wasp Spray

This is an example of one of those mass emails people like to forward to about fifteen of their email contacts. The woman who sent me this forwarded email is one of my cute MySpace and Facebook friends. Once upon a time we used to chat about where in Chicago to go on a date. Now I am reduced to one of the fifteen forwarded. My reply (and my replies to HER forwarded emails never receive a reply from her) follows.

Subject: Wasp Spray

I know some of you own GUNS, but this is something to think about...

If you don't have a gun, here's a more humane way to wreck some one's evil plans for you. Did you know this? I didn't. I never really thought of it before. I guess I can get rid of the baseball bat.

Wasp Spray - A friend who is a receptionist in a church in a high risk area was concerned about someone coming into the office on Monday to rob them when they were counting the collection. She asked the local police department about using pepper spray and they recommended to her that she get a can of wasp spray instead.

The wasp spray, they told her, can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate, while with the pepper spray, they have to get too close to you and could overpower you. The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an antidote. She keeps a can on her desk in the office and it doesn't attract attention from people like a can of pepper spray would. She also keeps one nearby at home for home protection. Thought this was interesting and might be of use.

On the heels of a break in and beating that left an elderly woman in Toledo dead, self defense experts have a tip that could save your life.

Val Glinka teaches self-defense to students at Sylvania Southview High School . For decades, he's suggested putting a can of wasp and hornet spray near your door or bed.

Glinka says, "This is better than anything I can teach them."

Glinka considers it inexpensive, easy to find, and more effective than mace or pepper spray. The cans typically shoot 20 to 30 feet; so if someone tries to break into your home, Glinka says "spray the culprit in the eyes". It's a tip he's given to students for decades.

It's also one he wants everyone to hear. If you're looking for protection, Glinka says look to the spray. "That's going to give you a chance to call the police; maybe get out. Maybe even save a life."

Please share this with all the people who are precious to you!

Did you also know that wasp spray will kill a snake? And a mouse! It will! Good to know, huh? Goes without saying it will also kill a wasp.!!!!


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Re: Fwd: Wasp Spray

Great idea with the wasp spray. If an intruder gets into my house then I can first spray them, get my gun while they're blinded, shoot 'em (for violating my domain), and get one of my many baseball bats at the ready if I only wound the intruder.

Mice??? Well, I have cats for that or sticky pads. I'm not ruining the vanish off my furniture just to spray a mouse. Great idea though.
Ken

Brother, can you spare a dime?

The strangest minor league in the world, the Premier Basketball League (PBL), is at it again. They have hired a new president.

Levingston unveiled as new PBL president
MATTHEW WUEST
METRO HALIFAX
June 09, 2010 1:26 a.m.

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The Halifax Rainmen owner was officially unveiled as the PBL’s new president yesterday following the league’s annual meetings in Chicago and said he is “coming in shaking the rug” and that the league “can’t continue to do business as usual anymore.” Levingston, whose role with the Rainmen is expected to be unchanged, said his main focus is to have teams with more stable ownership.

“No longer are we looking for guys with an extra $100,000 thinking they can own a professional basketball team in our league,” Levingston said. “Those days are over. It has to be harder.

“We want solid ownership that will run business the way we want business run.”
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What is so strange about hiring a new president?!? Well, the new president wants solid ownership that will run business the way WE want business run. The Problem is that Levingston is also a team owner; the owner of the Halifax Rainmen and...

Halifax Rainmen $376,000 in debt
The Halifax Chronicle Herald
January 2010

The Halifax Rainmen basketball team and owner Andre Levingston are facing a full-court press for about $376,000 in unpaid debt.

A Toronto finance company called 565819 Ontario Ltd. says in court documents the team and its owner received $55,000 on March 12, 2007, and $252,200 on April 27 of that year but have not repaid the loans in full.

The amount the team and its owner owed grew to about $383,000 because of missed monthly interest payments, but the total was reduced after a May 25 payment of $10,000, say court documents filed in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
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Instead of whittling the loan amount down since 2007, the amount of the team's start-up loan amount actually grew because of so many missed payments. Does this mean the league is no longer looking for owners like himself??? This is a very strange league indeed.