Pepper sprayed by my knife

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Long ago, I stapled quarter-inch wire mesh under my cabin to prevent the mice from tearing out all my insulation. It’s worked really well, until today when I heard a lot of squealing under my cabin. Then the scent of skunk wafted up through the floor boards.

I crawled under the cabin, and found that a couple of skunks had squeezed past the wire and had built a nest in the insulation. At that point, one of my brain flashes hit me, and I grabbed my TigerLight with the self-defense pepper spray dispenser. I sprayed the far end of the insulation run. The idea was to force the skunks to run the other way to their entrance, which I would seal after they left.

The spray didn’t work all that well. It came out as a liquid and ran down my arm. I pretty much got it all over me. But enough got into the skunk nest to trigger a retaliatory spray. Theirs worked a lot better than mine, and soon I was gagging.

I crawled out in defeat, washed up and went back to work stripping some wire. But then cut my finger with my Ritter RSK (second time). As blood flowed, I stuck my finger in my mouth to clean the cut. WOW. Lots of pepper left on my hand. The taste was so bad that my eyes started to water. So I instinctively wiped them dry with my hand. Yet another mistake. Now the pepper was burning my eyes. My tongue and lips were on fire. And my house smelled like a skunk.

And those squeals sound a lot like laughter.
 
Somewhere, a writer is looking for an episode for a really funny TV show ... (I know, but there's a first time for everything) ... I am sorry you had to be that episode.

Let us know how the next episode turns out. :D
 
MAN. That STINKS! :P So did you get skunk juice on you? I wonder if that was on your hands too. You could wash everything down in tomato juice.

That hot pepper stuff is nasty. I had cut up some Habenero peppers and had the oils on my hands. You could wash your hands, put your finger in your mouth, and it would burn. Touching your eyes or nose, major mistake. I even took a leak after washing up aftering working with them, big mistake.
 
Thanks, WadeF. I'm glad I didn't take a leak. I guess that would have been the hat trick.
 
You are a much braver man than myself. One can of pepper spray vs a nest
of skunks. :D and the winner is.....Pepe' Lepew. :D
 
Tell me about that pepper spray...i know how you feel. I had a similar and very stupid expirience on my part with it. In my home town i used to work for a phone company in an office. One of the employees of the company who was also a friend of mine who i had been working with for 2 years had just bought some pepper spray and a knife to carry as i got him into knives. He let me see the pepper spray and being as I am i curiously sprayed it on a peice of paper and sniffed it.... :rolleyes: I was in mid sentence of "This stuff doesnt sme..." when i started coughing and choking. Then slowly people around me working started to cough and sneeze. It lasted about a minute with people coughing and sneezing befre it stopped...I justt pretended i didnt know what heppened...Moral of the story dont fool around with pepper spray!
 
Twindog said:
Thanks, WadeF. I'm glad I didn't take a leak. I guess that would have been the hat trick.
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I can laugh now, but a neighbor gave me some of those flamming things.
And I was cutting them up for chili when I had to "excuse myself" and took
a leak, washed my hands, got back to making the chili. When all of a sudden
things were getting a little "warm" in the lower regions. :eek:

Man I could not jump in the shower fast enough....... :D
 
:foot: Excellent. :foot:

"I felt bad that I didn't have any shoes, and then I saw a man with no feet."
 
Dang, that was hilarious!
Made me feel much better about using my Mcusta to open a 12-pack of Diet Pepsi on my desk at work before putting the cans in my under-desk fridge.
I accidentally "tipped" one of the cans with the Mcusta letter opener (you guys who have one know how sharp the tip of the blade is) and was suddently getting a Pepsi shower right there in my office. Dumb, but way better than skunk or pepper spray!
 
Twindog, that made my day. Does your house still smell like skunk? A few weeks ago a skunk sprayed near my house (for reasons unknown) and it smelled pretty bad for a few days.

trooplewis said:
I accidentally "tipped" one of the cans with the Mcusta letter opener (you guys who have one know how sharp the tip of the blade is) and was suddently getting a Pepsi shower right there in my office. Dumb, but way better than skunk or pepper spray!
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I've done that too. I was opening a six pack of Mountain Dew, while in the fridge for some stupid reason, with a large knife (Endura I think) and pierced one of the bottles. Instinctively, I jumped back when I got sprayed in the face. But my jump was more upward than back and I bashed my head on the freezer door handle.

After the initial shock of pain, I realized how stupid that was and cleaned my fridge, floor and then got a shower.
 
OMG!! I am so sorry that that happened to you!! Good lord!! You poor thing!! I am NOT laughing. How long did it take to get the stink of skunk off you? Pepper spay AND skunk??!! Oh lord, damn the luck!!
 
Moth balls are supposed to discourage skunks from nesting under/in your house. You might want to rent an ozone machine to burn out the skunk smell from the building. You need a high powered one that is meant to get rid of smoke damage from fires.
 
A bit of thread drift from pepper spray, but on the skunk thing...

I got a kick out of teaching the little chihuahua to "get the kitty".
He thought his mission in life was to chase cats.

Yeah,,, he got one with the stripe. Pup was all white with one brown patch.

That tomato juice turned him PINK for months, till all his hair grew out. And about that long for all the smell to totally go away.
 
Don't ever, ever touch your junk while peeing or otherwise after touching pepper spray or hot peppers. Trust me. :)
 
I had a pepper spray episode once that could have been used in an episode of the Simpsons....

When I still lived at my folks place, my car was always parked next to the living room windows. The neighbours cat always thought that my car made a nice warm seat and left some claw marked on the bonnet as well. So one day I'm having a couple of friends over for a BBQ. As I walk around the side of the house I see kitty under the car and decide today is your day. Went down on my stomach on the far side of the car and gave him a good blast. He took off like a rocket and I had a chuckle and eventually went back inside.....

Boy, a bunch of my pals were in the living room looking at photos and the windows were open and they were having coughing fits! I felt it the second I walked in and dragged them out of there in a big rush :eek: (The cat was ok and never sat on my car again).

In another incident that happened to my brother, he used 1/2 a can of pepper spray against against a doped up guy who was attacking hospital staff. It had just about no visible effect, so he dropped him with an ASP baton. Just shows that the stuff doesn't always work :(
 
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