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Will Expired Pepper Spray Still Work?

Sitting at the keyboard and writing this article, I want the readers to know that my nose is still burning. The reason why will be explained a little later in the article. Most readers know this author has a preference for Fox Labs pepper spray products. However, there is this old can of Mace brand pepper spray on my desk that expired back in the 1990s. The expiration label where it indicates it expired in May sometime in the ’90s can be mostly read. It looks like that last number is a “3” but it could be an “8.” Either way it has been expired either 14 or 19 years. Since the Mace brand website indicates their current products have a four year shelf life, that would make that old can 18 to 23 years old. Old enough to have been born and graduating from college if it was a person.

The main concern about pepper spray in cans is not the breakdown of the active ingredient to something that no longer will have any effect on an attacker. The main concern is loss of propellant through seals in the spray valve or other areas of the can. For my other work as an artist, I have some cans of spray fixative that have been around for a long time. One can that is probably about 20 years old started to ooze a little of the contents out of the bottom end of the spray can. It still sprays, but the leak is easily seen because it has bubbles of hardened fixative at the seam on the bottom of the can. A can of defensive pepper spray that has no propellant will not work when it is needed.

The three cans in the following image are all expired. The one on the left is the old Mace brand product. The one in the middle is a Fox Labs product that has a cone spray pattern that expired on August 12, 2008. That is significant because of what we did with it and how it had been stored that will be shared later. The one on the right is a small canister of pepper spray from Fox Labs that has a water based propellant instead of the solvent based one in the other can. It arrived in the same shipment as the other can, so it would likely have the same expiration date. I am not sure about it because the label wore off being carried in my pocket, and I covered the can in electrical tape. I have carried it since receiving it years ago.

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Beaumont, California Woman Monica Hernandez Blinded With Pepper Spray for “Contempt of Cop”

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College Students and Children Pepper Sprayed During Protest (VIDEO)

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Drunk Man Pepper-Sprayed at Disneyland (NSFW VIDEO)

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Tony Destructo: Occupy Jerktown

Destructo defends the 99 percent!

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#occupy2012 New Years Revolution - Occupy Wall Street

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OWS has taken back the park in NYC

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Fat Ass Michael Moore: Pepper Sprayed Occupiers like Tiananmen Square Students

Showing either a lack of perspective, and ignorance of history, or else an epic capacity to prevaricate, film maker Michael Moore compared the pepper spraying of occupier protesters at UC Davis to the massacre of students in Tiananmen Square.

The incident, which took place Friday, involved campus police administering pepper spray to a group of seated, occupier protestors who had refused instructions to disperse. The incident has created a considerable amount of controversy, with apologies, threats of investigations, and demands for resignations all around. While some of the occupier protestors reported experiencing pain and fear as the pepper spray hit, no one actually died.

Tiananmen Square, on the other hand, involved a large group of peaceful, student protestors who had occupied the iconic plaza from April 1989 to June 3, when the Chinese Army moved in with tanks and bayonets and killed everyone they could catch, which by all accounts numbered in the thousands. Many more were arrested and sent to reeducation camps.

Unlike the Occupy Wall Street protestors, the students at Tiananmen Square behaved in a peaceful, civilized manner. There were no rapes or robberies taking place around the Goddess of Freedom. Nor did the Chinese students turn Tiananmen Square into a public bathroom.

So what was Michael Moore talking about, comparing a rough, but non fatal response to the defiance of a handful of occupiers to the massacre of thousands of human beings? It was, most likely, a lame attempt to infuse life into a sputtering movement by creating martyrs.

The only problem is that the handful of student malcontent who got their eyes burned make very poor martyrs indeed. They didn't actually die, which is something that usually has to happen to become a martyr. Nor was their agenda of any cosmic significance. They were protesting high tuition at California public universities and cut backs in higher education spending by the state. In other words, they were protesting that the cost of their attending school was too high.

Stipulating that higher education in the United States is too costly, that situation as a cause does not stir the blood quite like an attempt to overthrow a communist tyranny. It smacks of entitlement addled youth who, as usual, are directing their ire at the wrong target. They should be protesting university administrators, whose mismanagement has contributed so much to the higher education bubble.
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