In his Salsa thread, located here:
http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forum...4064#post44064
of this great story!
About 5 years ago I was living with this other recently divorced Deputy Sheriff co-worker. His name is/was Steve.
Steve was a great guy, and an even better drinker. He was always doing something embarassing, and was never too modest to share it with me, or anyone else for that matter.
So Steve, one day, was drinking with his girlfriend in some bar in the Hollyweird area of Los Angeles. They were there to meet up with one of Steve's girlfriend's girlfriends, whom Steve hadn't met before. Ya know, kind of a ladies' version of show and tell that they seem to do with their boyfriends. Showing em off to their friends.
Anyhow, like many people get, when the girlfriend's girlfriend learned Steve was a cop, the conversation gets centered on him and his duties, toys, experiences, etc.
Somewhere along the lines of conversation, it comes out that Steve's girlfriend's girlfriend is having problems with a ex-boyfriend doing a lightweight stalking kinda thing on her. Both Steve and (oops, almost said her name) his girlfriend strongly encourage the girlfriend's girlfriend to get a can of pepper spray for her protection.
Steve starts extolling the virtues of oleoresin capsicum and its many uses. One of these many uses is pranks. Steve, like most Deputies, laugh hysterically whenever someone on the news claims they were damaged beyond all repair when the Po-Lice sprayed them with pepper spray. Steve and the rest of laugh because we use pepper spray like water pistols. We shoot each other, we lace each other's lunches, we spray it in the ducts of the police car's air conditioning on a hot day before your partners get in their car, etc. Yes, it's an irritant. Yes, it hurts. Yes, it's a helluva lot of fun!
Anyhow....One thing you learn about pepper spray, especially when you watch inmates do this, is do NOT try to rinse it off your face with water. It is not water soluble. Water just causes it to spread around. If you try to rinse your eyes, you've just spread the irritant to the skin around your nose, cheeks, mouth, throat, etc.
So digressing.....
Steve's girlfriend's girlfriend asks for a demonstration because she's skeptical (either of pepper spray's uses or Steve's claimed antics). So Steve pulls out a little cannister of pepper spray, and aims it at the floor between his feet (they're all sitting at the bar of this Hollywood drinking establishment). Funny thing is that Steve's been drinking for about 5 hours at this point, and ends up he's pointing it the wrong way. He squirts himself in the face, much to the merriment of everyone else around!
Steve, being a wee bit inebriated and therefore not thinking straight, goes to the bathroom to...guess.....wash off his face. This latest development sobers Steve right up and he realizes just what the heck he's doing and stops, but too late. The pepper spray has spread alll over his face and hands!!!
The irritant dissipates after about 10-15 minutes and Steve and his girlfriend end their afternoon of show and tell and head back home.
After they are home for several minutes, Steve tells me this whole story, which gets me and my then-girlfriend laughing uncontrollably. I threaten to tell the fellahs at work the next day.
Steve and his girlfriend then find their way to Steve's room for a nap (so they said).
About 5 minutes later, I hear Steve's girlfriend screaming! Then she flings open their bedroom door and runs buck-stark-bouncingly naked to the bathroom and then slams that door shut!
I check on Steve to find him shaking his head and smirking. Seems that after pepper spray dissipates, it still remains on the skin and can be transferred to someone else. Remember Steve's fingers and face? Seems he set his girlfriend's "sensitive" areas afire....internally!
Great Story!
PS--Everyone and everything turn out fine and no worse for wear. Now you too can laugh at the crybabies on the news when you realize "other" places where pepper spray has ended up and of course, they didn't suffer any permanent dammage or claim emotional distress or any of that other BS, LOL!
PSS--Remind me in a coupla weeks, I've got a coupla more good "Steve" stories, lOL!
EDJ