Now I'm imaging an Icy Mike animated series and a big cartoon security guard picking Mike up by the leg and shaking him and making all sorts of guns, knives, medieval weapons and maybe even a frying pan or pot lid just rain out of his pockets.
My workplace was the site of a nationally televised mass shooting. My colleagues and I can tell you how bad it sucks to be weaponless while a gunman stalks and executes your friends. Afterwards, many of us discussed how to prepare for any repeat, and we stockpiled improvised weapons such as hammers, screwdrivers, etc. We also tested various distracting tactics and settled on laser pointers, which are great at momentarily blinding an assailant. When I became the director for our division, I instituted drills in how we would fight back if escape wasn't possible. One final thing is that I bought a quality bullet-resistant plate for my briefcase. Thanks for the video, Mike.
The workplace shooter was my first thought as to where you'd want a weapon but couldn't carry one. Guess what? The bad guy has a fucking gun and you've got a fake, but very sharp pencil :) yeah good luck.
@@jimofthenorth8090 You're absolutely right. Thats why I consider some sort of bullet resistant shield a must for the office. In my opinion, every student desk should have one as well. Even if never used, there is a tremendous mental health benefit in feeling that you have the means to contribute to your own safety.
@@hard2hurt Well, that's not what our testing showed. We had good results against volunteer simulated shooters from across the room. Our practiced tactic was for some to shine lasers from far away while those closer threw objects (including chairs) while closing to grappling distance. Of course, getting away is the best choice if possible. The odds of successfully defeating a determined person with a gun aren't good. Our hope was that having a plan that we practiced would raise the chances from zero.
Growing up in the 80s in a city where there would be fights often especially at bars, corner stores etc. I remember OG guys carrying small bags of sand in their pocket especially bouncers to throw in someone's face for self defense, I believe they called it "Sandman". And have actually seen a few guys do it. Very effective and not a blunt object.
from mission impossible, hogans heros and the great escape to the A-team and Mcguiver...all things are not what they seem. Simply reference the list of illegal weapons for ideas as to what is taught vs. what is possible. this 5' 7" father of small children always has something handy as well as plan(s) B and C . if, we get to plan D; I clearly was at fault or out of my league. ill gjve you one... eighty pound monofiliment coiled up with a few beads , makes a nice bracelet, garrot or nifty restraints. To snare an appendage, closeline a rushing force and hogtie any loose ends. without the sharpness of braided line or bulk of paracord. .
I remember my pops back in the 80s when I was a kid, he would use anything as a weapon. Couple guys were causing a scene at a store once, my dad broke the antenna off the car and used it as a weapon. Bea the crap out of those guys with it. Lol @@matthewsabal81
Hi Mike- I do self supported mission work in impoverished countries. Any impoverished country does not have anywhere near the law and order we are used to, it’s not even close. Yet at the same time, foreign jails/court systems are definitely NOT somewhere you want to ever get caught up in. Many of these countries have laws against even carrying a pocket knife, and they will not accept an ignorance of the law excuse. I basically have three realistic favorites that are very unlikely to get you in legal hot water. 1. Pepper Spray…. Thugs are not associated with pepper spray, so carrying a small keychain not usually looked at in a negative light. In my opinion that most underestimated tool out there. I’ve used it for over 15 years in corrections and law enforcement, it’s a fantastic distraction technique to either get someone to ultra flinch (giving you a chance to close the distance) or if there is more than you can handle surprise multiple people with it and run away. 2. Flashlight- you have covered this one. 3. Unbreakable umbrella… in a tropical country you need a good umbrella anyway, might as well add about $80 and have a really good one to serve dual purposes.
I moved one of the powder fire extinguishers near my position on the front door when I did security at the club. People very quickly forget how to attack someone when they're covered in white powder and struggling to breathe. It works in a pinch.
Here's one a friend of mine used once. A handkerchief with a big glass marble sewn into the corner and tucked inside his outer suit jacket pocket. You pretend you're about to sneeze and lean closer to your target while reaching for the handkerchief, and instead of a sneeze, the target gets a skull-fracturing whack to the head. He trained with that thing for months to be able to pull that move off.
I think in my area that would be considered a "sap" which is illegal. Luckily in my area knives aren't legally considered a weapon unless you intend to use it unlawfully against another person. So always carry a good knife when i can't carry my gun, unless i am going to some place with a metal detector.
Sometimes I worry about Mike. He's basically sitting around all day thinking about how he can kill people with different objects. When he's not doing that he's practicing killing people with said objects
One place I can see this being useful is like for people who are travelling alone at night to like night classes. Sure you may not need it in the class but what about getting back to your car? Its dark, and creeps do exist.
Only if the place has metal detectors. Otherwise you're fine with metal. But i would assume anywhere that offers night classes are not going to be high security places with metal detectors.
I have a class early in the morning on Saturdays and I always bring my knife with me just in case (my knife has a blunt peice of metal on the handle that I could use without facing legalities)
Also some museums have them if they have high enough traffic. They are not always obvious. When you go into a place with a second set of entry way doors, they are built into the frames of the second set of doors.
An old instructor of mine said that the best "improvised weapon" in the non-permissive workplace was to have a glass ashtray on your desk. He could throw it with enough force to dig it halfway into a wall - that was good enough for me.
I worked in a courthouse for a year, after hours, but got there before they closed, and had to pass through a metal detector to get in. I didn't drive, didn't have a car to leave my stuff in, and had to walk home at night, through some of the most dangerous parts of one of the most dangerous cities in the US. Usually, I'd be carrying a knife or two. At first, I started stashing one outside, but I was always worried a homeless guy would find it or something. So, I got into plastic weapons. There are plastic spikes that lace into your shoe laces, and all kinds of plastic knuckle/spike weapons that I believe are pretty damn effective, especially if you already have some training and experience. So, I was the good guy, having to carry something in a "non-permissive environment".
I'm a disabled vet who actually uses a cane; they are great. I've also worked security for the military and feds. The ADA is misunderstood. For example, the TSA says you can take a mobility aid, a cane, on a plane but not a walking stick. If it has mods that make it a good weapon (knurling, edges, spikes, blades) it's a no-go. Who decides? They do. Same for federal bldgs. The stuff that looks like a marker/pencil but isn't? It's clearly not a marker/pencil and you know it, so you are in possession of a weapon... at best you will lose it, at worst they will make your life interesting. Odds are they won't catch it, but if they do, don't be an ass about being sneaky and getting caught. There are usually lots of things already inside wherever you are going you can use in a pinch if you're smart. Be smart.
I've seen a police officer look closely at a pen he took off a person and checked that he could write with it. Once he could see it had ink he was happy. There are some self defense pens that also write which would help if you ever use it and have to explain yourself. Another good item for self defense is steel toe-capped shoes. Some of them don't look obviously like workboots.
Carrying a weapon concealed or not doesn't matter if you can't properly use it. Some people buy something online or whatever and they carry that around and they get this false sense of security that *may* put them in a very bad situation. What are you going to do with your wooden knife when someone pulls out a gun and shots you. Assuming you're a regular person, following laws and so on a criminal does not so you're always at a disadvantage. The best solution as always is try be smart, most situations can be talked out of and avoided entirely. Where I live even attacking someone breaking into your home can be turned against you! It's ridiculous.
@@huldu yep. any sign that says "no weapons allowed" basically actually says "all weapons allowed for criminals". what do we do about the laws these politicians make such as laws that punish people for attacking someone who broke into their home.
I once carried a self defense cane when I sprained my knee. Despite the injury, everyone assumed it was a cane sword. Everyone knows what a cane sword is, so its not gonna fool anyone lol
@@sarahmellinger3335 There are special made canes for defense use. They look just like a regular cane, but take the abuse better, and can have little additional parts that aid you ability to retain the cane.
@@sarahmellinger3335 especially if you get something that looks more like an old style walking stick, just made of decent wood. Less likely to raise suspicion, as people with mobility issues, particularly the elderly, still use them (whilst cane-as-fashion-statement only works if your an aristocrat), and whilst you are literally taking self defence advise from gandalf at that point, construction is also a reasonably simple DIY task and as such, you can shape it to suit your needs (within reason). You'd need to look up what local woods are good/traditionally used for weaponry (as you need a straight branch of appropriate size, when making a walking stick, defensive or not) but then you can probably make it yourself for minimal costs. Plus, if you live in an appropriate environment, no one will particularly object to it having a dirty great metal spike, openly visible, on the end in icy conditions (my work's security policy isn't especially tight, but would otherwise extend to 'no spears').
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An ethical case would definitely be in a country like mine where any actual weapon will be perceived by law enforcement as "intent to cause someone harm" but those intent on causing someone harm still get away with carrying them
The key thing everyone needs to understand ... YOU are the weapon.... everything else are just tools you might get to use... depending on where you are and your specific circumstances. For example... you sit down at a restaurant... you have the plate, the mug or glass and its liquid, the silverware, the chair, handful of salt/pepper to blind or distract, throw the food or condiments (tabasco or syrup in someone's eyes is nasty)... in short use what is around you... and of course if you can carry something (knife, firearm, etc.) that is a bonus. Regardless remember - YOU are the weapon - now train yourself to not be a victim. All the VERY BEST!
Great post! If you haven't already, read "The Most Dangerous Game" and/or watch the movie. Actually, there's probably more than one movie version. It's a fiction story, but based on your statement that we are the weapon. The game referred to in the story refers to prey animals (game) and the hunt for them (the game play of hunting). However, in this story, the hunter is a nut job who prefers to hunt the most dangerous game of all--PEOPLE! I'm disabled, with a number of health issues, including limited mobility. No attacker will wait politely while I get out of a gun, so that isn't a practical weapon for me. I'm in the habit of considering possible defensive weapons, shielding, and exits around me. No, I don't think that everyone is out to get me. It only takes one violent person to hurt or kill people, so I feel that I'm just being prudent. Knowing what I can use to protect myself in a dangerous situation actually has a calming effect. I am also surrounded by lots of nice people, so no, I'm not paranoid. I just feel safer by being prepared to deal with that one dangerous person, should I ever cross paths with them. Also, I have had a few encounters with bad people in the past, so I know that being prepared is better than being helpless. Fortunately, most people are pretty decent.😊
I would say for 2:50 is if your someone who goes into people's houses for services, like if you hook up people's cable or do a job where you don't have a lot of tools on you but you go into people's houses. Your employer may not want you to bring weapons with you, and if your weapon is visible they might be uncomfortable, but you may not want to walk into a strangers house with no protection.
Saw a guy beat his adult son almost to death with a pair of 9” linemen pliers. Kid cussed out the superintendent and nearly cost his dad’s company a really big rebar job.
09:30 you don't need a sword cane (which are illegal everywhere as far as i know). just a normal cane made from hickory, oak, or other hard wood can be a defense tool.
@@sie11pervan FAA (and many other) regulations prohibit metal tips. therefor you have to put it in hold baggage ... or leave it at the counter etc defeats the purpose. don't need a metal tip. a 1inch diameter cane of good old american hickory works just fine with a rubber tip.
@@grayman7208 Oh absolutely! It's just that I've always seen people with those steel type tips here in this area! I thought that was a very common walking stick / cane thing.
@@sie11pervan i broke my pelvis in an aircraft crash in the military 20+ years ago. used a hickory cane since. have several. the only time i have ever had an issue, was when it had a metal tip. like the example i gave ... airlines will not allow a metal tip. a rubber tip is fine. a rubber tip gives no issues ... and when jabbing the cane like a spear ... the rubber tip is not relevant.
In England you can be arrested and convicted for carrying anything “made, adapted or intended to be used as a weapon” - so you can’t even do anything or say anything that would suggest any of your non-obvious defensive weapons are weapons. It’s legally enforced defenselessness.
Even so in Switzerland. Every everyday item which could be used as a weapon in a self defence situation, will be treated as a real weapon in court. The only allowed item is pepperspray. And after use you have to give first aid to your attacker. Otherwise you will receive a fine.
Giant (thickest and longest one you can find) Slim Jim beef stick still in the package is the funniest improvised weapon I’ve seen. 😂 I work in a level 5 prison and one of the offenders beat the crap out of another using one of these. We were curious so we tried it out on each other. YOU’d be surprised how much it hurts. Reminded me of the stinger whip! Would love to see you review it. 🤣
I live in London. Practice self-protection. I use a wide range of stationary at work. I carry a mean piece of a pointy mechanical pencil in my pocket. A quality pencil in solid aluminium is as good as a spiky pen. The real issue is whether you are as prepared as the attacker. Any mean piece of equipment is useless if you're taken by surprise...
Practice turning everything you see into an improvised weapon: book, magazine, chair, newspaper. Glass, hat, towel, shoe, rock, stick, guitar, sock, headphones, wall clock and so on and so on. Analyze everything you see and ask yourself how you could use it as a striking tool. Once you train your brain to do this, then you can walk into areas where the transport of any weapon is illegal and feel secure that no matter where you are there will always be something that you can pick up and use to defend yourself.
@@tylerellis9832 a lot of things you ca do with a piano. You could roll it in front of a door as a barrier to prevent an active shooter from coming into the music room at a school. If the piano is bigger than a console, a small person could hide in it. If you have a wire cutter on your multi-purpose tool, you could cut out the bass strings and make a whip or use it as a garrote. You could pick up the piano bench or piano stool and use it as a defensive barrier against a knife attack. You could pick up a piano book and roll it up and use it as a jabbing weapon. You could roll up that same piano book around your forearm and tape it in place to make a bracer for your forearms which will protect you from knife stabs and slashes. You could place one large or two small piano books under your T shirt to protect you from knife stabs and slashes to the stomach and chest. You can do the test yourself, place a magazine or a typical music book on a flat surface and thrust the knife as fast as you can and it will not penetrate all the way through the magazine. Look inside a piano bench and you will find a tuning fork which makes a good weapon. Pick up the metronome on top of the piano lid, and now you have a heavy object to throw at your assailant and rush him with a forceful fist to your attackers solar plexus. Do I have to go on or do you get the picture? Just because I am a piano player does not make me a wimp.
@@tylerellis9832 A piano certainly is a weapon. You've made the mistake of assuming a weapon has to be able to be picked up. If you can push or pull someone into it or over it, it's still falls into the category that Zoom piano player referred to in his/ her brilliant, potentially life saving observation .
This made me remember the time I went to a museum(for a college class) and I completely forgot that I sown a hidden(but easily accessible) compartment on my backpack for those mini push daggers so I could easily pull if I was ever in serious trouble(I don't live the the nicest of places), and security was checking all the bags... Thankfully they didn't find it though XD
LOL you really lucked out! In many jurisdictions you could have been arrested for even possessing push daggers outside your house, much less trying to enter a museum with them!
Good grammar or not isn't going to be important if he pulls that push dagger. "I'll punch this into your eye; I ain't messing around!" "You mean you AREN'T messing around."
My friend had a stun gun years ago, and it was utterly useless even on a full charge. We used to shock each other with it for fun, and nobody was ever incapacitated (more like invigorated).
I got one because they are kind of fun. I was already carrying a handgun at the time, and I knew stun guns are trash for actual defense, but the little electric arc is cool. The first thing I did when I got it was to zap myself. No surprise, it hurt a bit and that was all. For a while I carried it in my car to keep myself awake on long drives, but it didn't even do that well so now it's in my room somewhere. I later got an electric arc lighter. It's just as cool and actually useful for something.
Thanks for the info. I've wondered about this and am also interested in stealthy defense items. I'm disabled, so I need easy, but not obvious stuff, although I have considered stun guns. I definitely don't want any type of air horn or loud shrill whistle. Those would incapacitate ME from the pain and damage my already faiing hearing. Bad as it is, I can still hear those painful shrill sounds.
Regarding sword canes: Matt Easton of Scola Gladitoria made a nice video about them. The TLDR is that they had banned the carry of swords for civilians, thus they made walking canes their new status symbols, often with exotic woods and silver mace-heads. They were more often than not weapons in plain sight, but many were still preferring thrusting weapons, as they had an epee-culture. Even back then, they were ILLEGAL, but most police and courts ignored the rules because they were of the same upper class as the ones that carried them...
Living in the UK, everywhere is a place where you can't take a weapon, so my strategy is to look for things that are definitely not weapons but will work as weapons anyway. Britain, being as it is, means umbrellas are carried by people a great deal. Unbreakable umbrellas are available and can be used to stab and strike. You mentioned walking sticks, but we can't have any hidden blades in ours. I don't think the blade is necessary when all you have to do is hit your opponent with a good heavy stick. I have a couple of Cold Steel walking sticks and either could split a skull. The trick here is to look like you actually need a walking stick, it's easier if you're a bit older but, as you say, if you're younger you're not going to look as if you need one and a policeman is going to ask why you're carrying a stick. I think my favourite thing is the BFT belt made by Kenwood (bft stands for blunt force trauma,) and you could conceivably take it anywhere. It's just a normal belt really but everything is dialled up to 11. The strap is very thick leather and the buckle is able to put a dent in a car door when you use it as a flail. I don't actually own one, I wish I did, but the shipping from the US is astronomical.
As long as its not labelled as a weapon or tactical and you don't say its for self defence and you have a legitimate purpose for it (walking stick to walk with) and you only use it if necessary when attacked you should be fine.
Ditto for Japan, any weaponry carriage without a legitimate purpose (self-defense not included) is in violation of the Minor Offenses Act. Except the Yakuza don't seem to apply the same rule. Even flashlights are not allowed, so...
Not trying to be stupid because you really got my attention, but is it “Kenwood” or “Lenwood.” When I read what you wrote, I immediately looked it up because I want one. Once again, not being a troll, I’m genuinely interested in buying one.
My wife works in an environment that is supposed to be "weapons free," and my 16 yo daughter is in HS. I bought Sharpies from Clanton Combatives for everyone's Xmas stocking 2022, and ordered one of his carbon fiber IWB dagger. Everyone always has a sharpie on them, cuz you don't know where you'll need it. We've brought all of those items and Cold Steel FGX items into wrestling events in Seattle and Portland, where we've passed through metal detectors and security checks. It's not the event I'm worried about, it's getting through Seattle or Portland from parking area to event and back. Great products.... I would recommend Clanton Combatives to anyone.
I like how you think. Great video! A friend of mine is a retired Air Force pilot who flew commercial aircraft after leaving active duty. After 911 he said to me “the hell with little SAKs, I want all passengers shoe laces, belts and pens confiscated. The TSA is so single minded that they think guns and knives are the only threats.” If you must remain legal then a capped sharpie in the ribs or a Cross pen poked anywhere on the face or body will make most people back off, even if only momentarily.
Back when I was a teenager living with my Dad, he would always test me in different places, in what items I would use as a weapon and how. For instance, in his living room, it was easy, as we had the privacy to pick things up and use them. But even when we would go to a restaurant, sit at an airport gate, or even in an airplane. It's amazing how many everyday things around you can be used as a weapon, if you are trained and could know what to do with them. As for an example, back in 2007, a bowl of hot soup protected me from being jumped by a gang of Vietnamese in Laos PDR.
@@hard2hurt Thank you. I will check it out and send him the link. It is a blessing to hear from you: thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment: I'm honoured. God bless you.
@@casparbosch5615 Yes! Plus, those same "men" were armed with knives as well; and they outnumbered me. Once again, as my Dad trained me when I was a teenager, you wouldn't believe how many "weapons" we are surrounded by. Even the great Miamoto Musashi defeated one of his toughest opponents by using a boat oar against his opponent's sword. If you are trained, you can make use of anything as a weapon. In Muay Thai, back when I was a lot younger, we were trained to walk around the ring and find grooves in the ring floor to use against our opponent.
My concern with the weapons that look like sharpies is if your hands are sweaty or bloody (which could be very likely in a self defense situation) , the smooth surface could make them very difficult to wield and control.
In my lovely home of The Netherlands, bringing any weapon is in most cases interpreted as intent for whatever goes down. After all, if you were not looking for trouble, why bring something for trouble? Even if you use the weapon that you take of your attacker, you get slapped with a weapons charge, because you used a weapon. Anything used that causes any harm can be deemed a weapon on par with a sword. Training in martial arts means that you are more easily prosecuted for excessive violence. The entire country is a non-permissive environment, I wouldn't even risk a tactical pen because it is marketed as such.
A shocking amount of people apply that flawed logic. "If you're prepared, you must have wanted it to happen". Or just as common, "it's unfair that you were prepared and other people weren't". I'm sorry you have to deal with that. I don't know how you do it, honestly.
@@Ashtor1337 I don't think they blame the victim, I would say it's more like they have unrealistic expectations on how they think people can handle potentially lethal threats and violence.
Your politicians deserve to be disarmed, without bodyguards, without locks on their front doors with their name, face, home address and work address and common locations doxxed. Let's see how they feel.
I think the best would be a flashlight, as you said, and a simple metal tactical pen WITH A FLASHLIGHT... When I was traveling I always got into trouble with "tactical looking" tactical pen, but when I took one with the flashlight, I NEVER had an issue, and that includes "tensed" countries like Ukraine (twice).
Good video. The term tought in Marine Corps Bootcamp is, 'Weapons of Opportunity.' I tough my children and grandchildren that, "They are the Weapon that uses, Tools of Opportunity. " A Non-lethal option I keep on the truck for close and personal is, a Rubber Mallet.
For years I have recognized that, due to their excellent construction and quality, my 0.5mm Black Pentel Pencils are, essentially, a stealth "weapon". Although the outer casing is plastic, the central core is all metal, terminating in a chromed iron tip that is fine enough to just allow the 0.5mm pencil lead to come out.... take a look, be surprised. Carried through airports, along with my pens, sharpies, and notebook since I fell in love with them as a writing instrument 30 years ago. A real sharpie, one of the thicker ones (but not the blunt tip version) would be an excellent impromptu thrust weapon, particularly to the throat and or face because you can concentrate all of your thrust energy into a highly concentrated area.... and you'll crush or break body parts; plus the thicker sharpie fits well in most human's hands.
Your best option was his first; the flashlight. You will *NEVER* get into *ANY* kind of trouble *ANYWHERE* for carrying one. (there are no laws against them that I'm aware of in the entire known universe) At worst your flashlight might be temporarily confiscated in a courthouse or Federal facility, but you will always get it back when you leave. A sturdy (read: heavy for its size) 3" to 4" long flashlight with an aggressive bezel is a great weapon. It won't easily be knocked out of your hand, and it adds weight similar to that of a roll of nickels to every punch that you throw. As an added bonus, if it has enough lumens it can confuse and slow down an attacker if you're able to shine it in their eyes. This will only buy you a second or two at best, but sometimes that's all you really need. And it beats a blank.
That is actually a reason I frequently here from people who are against carrying weapons. "I'm so clumsy that I'd be more likely to hurt myself than defend myself with it."
Those people should actually train then. I can't stand people who deem themselves too incompetent to defend themselves with a weapon, so they feel the need to disarm everyone else too.
This is a lesson I have had to teach people in the past. The TL;DR version of the lesson is Weapon Theory, as follows: A weapon is defined as any object wielded as offensive and/ or DYNAMIC defense; dynamic defense being defined as the object changes position realative to the person's body.
To those who say, "Shouldn't Have A Weapon...". All weapons are Defensive Weapons, until used to violate someone else. Our great, great, great grandfathers carried SWORDS with them everywhere. Any law that forbids one from carrying a weapon for self-defense is a violation of Rights.
So in all honesty, I'm one of those weirdoes who likes to carry less obvious, more covert "weapon alternatives" whenever I'm out and about. I've commented on this channel before about my predilection for knuckledusters, but I also like having a ~tactical~ pen on me when possible and the gloves I use in cold climates are reinforced at the knuckles. The main reason I do this is because, as I've mentioned before, guns are heavily restricted in the country I'm in, so the citizens have to be more creative about how they carry their self-defense implements. These weapon alternatives aren't explicitly illegal, don't outwardly look like weapons (so they don't alarm my friends and coworkers) and give me plausible deniability in case a figure of authority asks about them. Do I feel good about carrying them, even as I know the people around me implicitly agree to disarm themselves so we can interact in a civilized manner? _Not really,_ but I comfort myself in the knowledge that I'm a capable individual whose practiced in the use of these weapons and that I won't use them unless I feel my own life or the life of someone else is threatened first (and even then, I'd try to bring my less-harmful hand to hand skills to function first before I ever thought of using a weapon against someone). Are a lot of these mall ninja shit? Totes, but mall ninja shit is often better than the alternative when the alternative is nothing at all. If nothing else, some of these give me something to throw at the bad guy while I run away.
You gotta do what you gotta do to defend yourself so you can get home to your loved ones. All the people who hate on law abiding citizens owning weapons for self defense ain't gonna come to your funeral or support your family if you screw it up.
In what country r u allowed to carry brass knuckles as far as I understood they r legal to own but I don't think hardly any country allows them to be carried
@@a_stray_dog well as long as u r reaching in there to get ur brass knucks I don't know why u don't just use your booty~blunderbuss at least then u got some range
In college, my Kali Silat trainer taught us how to use everyday items in different scenarios, like a plastic straw or a book or a belt or towel. Interesting. Have kept that in mind and shared those ideas for the past 35 years. Love this info you provide!
Another point I should make here is that our trainer was one of the best in the world from the Dan Inosanto Academy .. and we held "classes" at USC from time to time .. and one of the most important things I feel like I got out of all of that was the various techniques for disarming. So, if you are up against a perp with 5 knives a gun and a stick and a sword, there are ways to not only disarm the perp but at the same time turn all his weapons back against him. I know everyone knows this stuff, but it's good to practice disarming with friends, and at 60 yrs old - I still do!
I heard a story of a surfer being mugged. He defended himself using his surfboard. He was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (said surfboard). The guys who mugged him had a very good lawyer. Crime pays. Surfing doesn't, unless you are Kelly Slater.
the VZ dagger would be something safe for you to carry if you work around powerful magnets or high-power lines. a very narrow group but a valid group nonetheless.
I have 2 artificial knees and an artificial hip. I walk with a cane sometimes and i use a polymer copy of an Irish Shellaigh. I have used it twice as a blunt instrument. If you do a bayonette thrust to the chest it is very good as a blunt instrument. It has never been forbidden. I am also 65 so I have ae in my favor.
Oh Really In Gaza I Was Dressed Like A School Girl Complete With Notebooks And Pencils That Didn't Stop Me From Getting Strip Searched At The First Checkpoint And That Was Checkpoint Number One of Ten And By Number Ten I Wasn't Even Wearing Underwear All Because of A Pencil The Jordon Valley "orgy" As The Media Likes To Call It Was Only A Follow Up To Multiple Palestinian Girls Witnessing Snow White And Before You Say That I'm A Lucky Dude My Head Is Still Spinning Full of The Indoctrination Those Girls Filled Me With Do You Know When Our Landing Party First Touched Down In Arafat I Had Absolutely No Problem With Jews Now I Don't Know What To Believe I'm Torn Between A Mom Who Wants Me To Go To Church And A Heram That Wants Me To Join Hamas And All Because of A PENCIL ! ! So Piece of Advice If You Wanna Get Go To Japan Gaza Is Not A Good Place To Get Laid And Believe Me It Can Get Funny When The American Boy Is Hiding From His Heram And That's Kind of The Part About Self-Defense Few Instructors Talk About What If The Person You Gotta Defend Yourself Against Is Someone You Have Sexual And Emotional Feelings For NOBODY PREPARED ME FOR THAT ! ! And In My Particularly Unique Situation It's One Vs Six And Yes I Have Intimate Feelings For All Six And Anyone Can Talk Tough When Their Six Crushes Are Not In The Room Make No Mistake "self-defense" Becomes Impaired When It's Intimate Like That And That's Why I Stay Hidden Because I Know My Heram They'll Find Me Eventually And When They Do It'll Get In The News Just Like It Did In Jordon Valley And Here In America That's A News Report That Could Lead To Muzzle Reports Followed By More Gun Control As That Seems To Be The Pattern With American Media
I can say when a weapon like that is needed. I worked as a journalist for many years, and the nature of the job has it that in a single day you have to visit several public events and then commute home via public transportation, walk in the neighborhoods and such. And in these events you very often have to go through a metal detector, and thing is - even if the event’s security policy is to just take the weapon to give it back to you later, the whole commotion might not look good on you and shit like that while you’re trying to do the work. I just used a small push dagger back in the day that’s easy to hide on yourself - the detector would go off on the notebook/camera anyway, so the security would just inspect the bag and be over with it, BUT, what if there’s a patdown, yeah? I’d love to have that polymer dagger/spike thingy back in the day, and it wouldn’t make me the bad guy that I needed to trick the security. I didn’t need the weapon AT the event, I needed it for later, I just needed to carry it in.
I always carried tools as weapons. I would practice with different screwdrivers as a spike, and I preferred the Phillips driver for use over a straight blade, but I was good with both. I also had other tool choices for different situations, but the drivers were my favs.
Keep a couple of $1 Stanley screwdrivers in your pockets, box with them in icepick grip if you gotta, throw them away if you gotta; nice solution in, say, Cook County, where cops look suspiciously at you for carrying string.
I carry a two-piece walking stick around 5 feet long. Since I was trained in the BO staff and Philippine fighting sticks back when I was in the USNavy and stationed in the Philippines, its my weapon of choice because at 71 years old I can carry it anywhere and no one gives it a question. and I can carry it on planes, buses and even into TSA check with no questions ask
Year's ago, prior to most of you viewer's were even born. A company by the name of BIC developed a ball point pen they stated was industructable. They gave an example shown during their TV advertistment of it being shot into a tree. It penitrated the tree almost half of it's length. When taking out, it still worked as it was designed. After seeing that, my entire pocket protector contents were replaced with BIC yellow ball point pen's and in both colors, that being black and blue.
I can tell you from experience that a bic plastic ball point pen explodes into fragments when you try to use it as a dagger. Pens and pencils are trash weapons.
That gag with all the weapons coming out! Best laugh in a long time. As far as disgusted weapons go, I think anything is better than nothing, but my fave of this bunch is the pencil. How about a vid with improvised weapons with stuff people always have on them, keys, cell phone, wallet, maybe lighters?
I am from Europe and my granddad (who was my legal guardian) was stationed in Germany, where I was in primary school from the age of 3 till the age of 11. For 7 years I had been pestered, bruised and beaten by the same 3 bullies at my school on a daily basis (Pascal, Vincent and Olivier) - My crime? I was the only Flemish guy in a French school. The last day at that school (I was moving to another town and another school afterwards) I told all three of them this in the morning: 'Leave me alone today, and we will all go our merry ways. Don't, and you will regret it.' They all laughed. What was to be expected. So, I took 3 regular (color) pencils out and sharpened them down, so that they would fit my small hand perfectly. I left about 3-4 cm sticking out the bottom, holding each of them so the pointy bit sticks out at the bottom when you make a fist, exactly like Mike is holding that 'pencil' in the video above. The guy with the biggest yap, (his name was Pascal) came to me first, on the playground during the last recreation time while Vince and Ollie were standing on each side and a bit back to give him some room to maneuver. Before he saw it coming, I swung my fist downwards with the pencil sticking out like described above, and it went a few centimeters deep into his left Trapezium muscle, in the depression right behind the clavicle. He buckled in two and fell to the ground with an agonizing scream. The pencil was where I left it. Calmly i reached in my back pocket and took the second pencil. I made 3 pencils... one for each of them. And I just calmly and flatly said... 'next'. They both saw their buddy on the ground, something that had not happened before, and without looking at each other, but keeping their focus on me to see if I would come after them, they took a few steps back, leaving their buddy lie on the floor. My gaze was so focused on both of them that I did not notice that the professor who was supervising the playground had come over to me and was standing next to me and looking at my hand holding that pencil - He did not touch me or try to 'disarm me', he knew why I had done this, and the situation of course, and I was still standing at the same spot where I drove the pencil into Pascal just a few moments ago. Then he calmly asked me if I would surrender my makeshift weapon. I shifted my attention from the two bullies, looked into his eyes and said, "that depends"... "on you making sure they won't come back at me when I surrender my pencil to you". He promised me that they would no longer be a threat . After that, without a word, I gave him both remaining pencils. After that, the bell rang, and an hour later school was out. I never saw any of the three again, and my grandad (who probably afterwards got informed - although not the same evening) never reprimanded me about the incident, never gave me a lecture about it, never even spoke about it. It had happened, and that was that. I was 11. I learned 2 lessons from this: I never gave anybody 7 years of credit anymore to fuck with me afterwards, but I can reassure you that a pencil, well sharpened can do some ugly things when controlled by a focused mind. - And no, you don't need to go for the eyeballs, that is overkill.
To answer the question where I’m still the good guy in this scenario. I travel overseas a lot to less than friendly places and while being an American, I’m a target for terrorism. Most countries who have that problem don’t let certain electronics or Bibles much less weapons into their country. This video was great although I’m not sure I’ll carry any of these. I think you’ve said it before but knowing how to fight and recognize danger in order to escape is probably the best advice.
Wow! Just a standard BIC pen works great and they are everywhere. They don’t show up on a scan. A normal belt works great PROVIDED your pants don’t fall around your ankles. Great ideas. Keys can be used in a pinch.
People in UK have used walking sticks really well in self defence against muggers and these have been elderly people. Any type of pen or pencil not fake stuff will work really well.
Oh man I just commented that about a pen. Women should be presenting these things, not men. Because we literally run into some kind of self defense problem at least once a week until we turn 58 or so. No kidding. Any woman can tell you how to use a pen to defend yourself, with personal examples! Pencils. Keys. A frigging stick from a tree. Oh, I once used the guy's T-shirt, that was different.
With the belt rig, you pull the buckle off to use the knife and your pants fall down. Personally, I use a rock climbing carabiner to hold my keys. It's big enough for me to hold like brass knuckles. Never punch with it, only hammer fists.
And they expect us to happily concede to wait 50 years to see the truth regarding certain events they've taken part in which they don't like the look of.
I carry a blunt wooden toy dagger i got at the local Renaissance fair in my Scott-e vest brand Hoodie (it has A LOT of pockets) and it cold possibly stop a knife if they are doing a slash and i block it with the side of it and the tip is just sharp enough that if you jam it into pressure points it can really hurt, it is hand carved and made of cherry wood, if anyone questions you about it you can say "oh, it is just a toy" and most would let it pass i assume
I think I'd very much rather carry the actual tools that those stealther weapons mimic. Law in my area is quite unforgiving to James Bond wannabes. An actual box of Dixon Ticonderoga or American Fabercastell #2 pencils is stupid cheap. And, I have witnessed those things improvised into genuinely life-threatening implements.
@@hard2hurt Badly worded on my part. The local self defense laws are actually very reasonable. The guys enforcing those laws: The tiny handful of ones I've occasionally bullshitted with at my former workplace told me don't take chances with mimic gear. LEOs might assume you were looking to field test your toys. Ironically enough, a cool-guy flashlight with a length of braided paracord and a charm or carabiner at the end; That can be a "personalized work tool". Just saying.
I find it interesting that on a certain site I've worked on it the past, where we had high level security and had the whole metal detector xray stuff, I only know realise why they used to take the lids of every pen and ask to see under my belt buckle 😅
EDC items that make good weapons (not counting pocket knives) - flashlight, actual pencils, actual Sharpies. After watching John Wick 2, I'm considering investing in a tactical hardcover novel. Preferably something by Robert Ludlum or Tom Clancy. 😅
13:08 good reaction, instead of grabbing for it you just let it fall to the ground. some people might tend to prevent it from falling as a reflex from other stuff they let go of but with knives it´s the correct way
Don't overlook defensive attire. Layers protect from getting hit to punctured. Small books in certain pockets protect. Limit the damage that can be easily done to you.
Also the right clothing allowing for freedom of movement and not acting as a disadvantage in wrestling situations (for example clip on tie > regular tie
That belt is something. Harder than finding a place I will need a weopon and can not bring one is trying to imagine a place where I will possibly need hidden belt knife and by some reason decided to show it for opening a bottle...
My daughter who lives by herself in a dangerous area, just asked me what kind of weapon she should get. I told her most anything she would get is probably going to get taken from her and used on her, unless she was very serious about USING the weapon. Now that you’re serious, anything around you can be used as a weapon- anything. A dish, book, edge of your laptop, heel of your hand…. The seriousness of carrying out the threat is the most important.
I knew a girl whose house was broken into while she was sleeping. She woke up, had a gun, but didn't shoot the guy. He took the gun away from her and raped her.
Yeah, i understood the thought process but if she feels like she might need a weapon, her serious level is already elevated. Let alone that she lives in a bad neighborhood. Moreover, considering you raised her, she must understand the seriousness and intent of a weapon (unless you raised you incorrectly). Therefore, your little speech was unhelpful to her, and stupid.
The "I would rather neither" is correct. John from Active self protection always says you should make the decision yourself if you want to carry against the rules of an establishment, or if you're willing to take the *risk* of being caught without protection
I am old. I use a cane to walk. The cane has a beautiful, ornate brass handle that weighs about a kilo. Basically it's a pretty war hammer so I always have a weapon
I've always seen a basic full sized sharpie marker as a decent "compliance tool" on it's own. I do carry a fountain pen(pen snob, what.) daily that is mostly metal and not super "tactical" looking so it goes most places no problem even if the buzzers go off. The main trade offs are that I'm confident in my ability to use the sharpie and have actively trained with one. So it's not an off the shelf/anybody can proficiently use item in my eyes. Secondly, that fountain pen goes anywhere "IN" anyone/thing. The nib is almost guarantied left where it's stuck. So it's pretty much signing my work. That all said, I have never set out with the intention of taking any weapon or even a "compliance tool" into a place they were not permitted. Given there's never been either a reason to fear conflict or feel the need to defend myself from anyone there.
Depending on age... Im almost 50.. And am getting to where i have mobility issues.. The cane.. Nothing else,no sword or spike.. Traditional hook cane.. There's nowhere in America that if you need a cane will deny entry.. From the baseball swing to X swings,jabs,hooking and sweeps.. The cane really is the ultimate open carry weapon.. There's centuries old fighting techniques .. Walk softly and carry a big stick has no more truer meaning.. whipper snappers to critters.. Defensive/offensive
The point you made at around nine minutes is why I became a convert to the church of the violent flashlight.I have a better than a kuboton G10 spike, but you can just look at it and realize it's purpose built as a weapon and even though I have no intention to ever be the aggressor and never have been the aggressor, I can't deny it is a weapon that I am kind of sneaking into my workplace. There's no rules against bringing it there, I am breaking no laws, but it is because the law has not caught up to the reality of stuff now out there. So time for a flashlight.
I have a gun and in no way will be the aggressor, bit the people who make rules disallowing self defense tools don't care about aggressor/ victim right/wrong.. even in prison
A wooden pencil in close combat is an amazing weapon did mma for a few years and we used wooden dowls on pressure points between ribs armpits neck eyes etc are really affective .
Bonus, you can use the eraser end if you think it'll be enough to scare them without puncturing. They know which end they get next time if not convinced. I'm a fan of warning shots, most people don't have the conviction to pursue anything but a sure win.
I carry pencils around and instinctively pull one out and ready myself when threatened. Most people laugh which diffuses the situation but stabbing that one guy also diffused the situation.
What is the marker that had a steel tip under the felt marker? You could still write with it but since the tip was just under the felt when you use it as a weapon.
My Dad was taught unarmed combat. The things he told me I don't care to share on social media. You don't want to fight with anyone whom is mentally prepared.
Let me guess attacking eyes, ears, groin, neck. Unless your opponent has a knife in that case you will most likely die or at least get severely injured. I did thai boxing and let me tell you no one has a real chance against a fit knife wielding opponent. There is only so much you can do.
@@sierraecho884 just kick it sideways. No need to break. Just like kicking a footy. The knee pain is excruciating. I had my then six year old daughter do it by accident years ago. I could hardly walk for an hour.
@@moonbaby6134 Just kick it sidewise...sure buddy. Just brake the neck why not that instead ? Stop watching too many action movies. The problem is not that it´s not possible the problem is it´s not the most efficiency thing to do. A knee kick to the soda plexus will basicaly do just the same or an elbow hit to the chin head etc.
Several friends have had no problem carrying a tactical pen through TSA onto planes in their computer bag - reverse the pen with the pen tip out and it looks like a normal pen on X-Ray Once through security, take it out of the bag, restore the pen to normal and put in their shirt pocket - the good ones are aircraft aluminum, easily pierce skin, and are in fact actual working pens
In Hawaii, where you pretty much can't defend yourself, I made my girls a leather lace necklace with three hollow lead fishing weights. Wear it like a necklace, but can be swung at an attacker. On TV they said Hell's Angels carry a hammer.
In my younger years I lived in New Jersey, where self defense barely existed. I would walk about 3 miles through town in the middle of the night. My first stop was Dunkin Donuts for a large, extremely hot cup of black coffee. Never had to use it, but the idea was it would really take the fight out of someone. Plus side I had a coffee for morning, just had to nuke it.
I was once attacked pretty badly by swooping magpies and I couldn't run because I was recovering from a broken hip. They got increasingly bold because they could see I was lame and started doing near strikes to my head. I found a wax paper coke cup on the ground and filled it with gravel. I couldn't throw the gravel without the cup because I couldn't turn my shoulders and hips into a throw due to my hip injury, but the cup enabled me to kind of slingshot the stones out using a flick of the wrist. I was able to get a shot gun spread of the gravel that pushed the birds back long enough that I could limp slowly out of their territory. It's surprising what can be turned into a weapon, and how you can improvise a way out of a situation using whatever's to hand.
I live in the UK and knife crime is getting pretty bad over here and essential all self defence weapons are illegal those pens look like a great compromise If I have to protect my family.
I used to have a delivery job where from some stops I collected and carried cash, so this is something I gave some thought. One stop included a school, where you definitely don't want to bring a conventional weapon. Eventually I settled on a flashlight with a super bright LED that would also let out a super loud screech that sounded like you'd stepped on Satan's balls during an air raid. It clipped to a belt loop with a breakaway magnetic attachment so you could get it into action in a hurry. Never had to try it out thankfully.
Airport security considers hidden weapons as being "artful concealment with the intent to circumvent security screening." If you believe that you're being clever by testing it, you're setting yourself up for some major fines and putting yourself on a list.
That's the thing though if its a real pen or pencil its not artful concealment, its a real pen or pencil. I kept pencils on me in airport cause I draw a lot. I know they can be used as a self defense tool or a deadly weapon. They legit can't do anything about that. I've even asked them about it. Its not artful concealment if its also a tool everyone pretty much has and use on an everyday basis. Its the one tool no one can really challenge. The only thing that could possibly land you in jail is your use of force during whatever situation said person is in. Other then that pencils and pens are about fine.
@@tangobayus What Mike Featured vs a legit pen that you're referring to are two completely different things. A pen with a steel body is, by design, a real sturdy pen. If you chose to be John Wick with that then you do you. But a carbon fiber spike (or hard plastic knife -I dunno it's been a minute since I watched this) fashioned to look like a pen isn't serving anything but the intent to harm.
They would be pretty much all illegal in Europe, as weapons camouflaged as harmless objects is a serious offense. There are however some lights, umbrellas, and pens that are actually what they seem to be, just sturdy enough to be used to really hurt someone... Personally, I got a bit of a grudge against knife laws. 1) everyone ignores them and unlike guns, it's utterly futile to enforce the weapon ban 2) knives have been carried by everyone for survival since the dawn of time and make the most important of the 5Cs (cutting, followed by combustion, and container...) 3) there are plenty of packages that can't be opened without a knife and food where your plastic knife isn't good enough...
imagine you had to use public transportation, wanted to go see a concert, where the venues policy is 'no weapons'. something concealed, that the venue security does not detect, might come in handy for the way home.
As a lone female; certain otherwise innocuous places can sometimes pose a potential threat. I often think of where I would run or what I could hurl at a larger and stronger human if need be.
I've said, for years, that even with all the pre-flight screening one must go through to get on a plane (I've had a dozen tiny Victrinox pocket knives that I forgot were in my pocket taken) the TSA will let you walk on a plane with a FISTFUL of Bic pens.
Mike's unconvential weapons reminds me of video game "Dead Rising" The zombies 🧟♂️ were offed with frying pans. Steven Seagal was a retired navy seal and became a dangerous cook 🍳 with a particular kind of culinary experience.
My knee acts up on occasion due to having twisted it in a fight when I was a teen so I have a selection of canes I use. I have a couple coldsteel canes (walkabout, and axehead) that are particularly mean but I also have some regular hardwood canes that get the job done and no one takes a second look. I still have a wee little knife I keep on me but it's strictly a last ditch weapon. And yeah most states banned swordcanes so just don't.
If it comes down to thinking about what kind of pokey/stabby things I can conceal, I think I would rather spend my time studying the exits and objects/furnishings that might provide good cover.
In Arizona, if you carry a weapon into a nonpermisive environment and then use said weapon, you would most likely be charged with a crime. In Arizona, if a place says no weapons allowed, it is enforceable by law. You can get in trouble doing that. Luckily, I haven't come across many places where all weapons are banned, just guns so I can still take my knife and pepper spray.
2:50 "What's a situation where you would want to carry a weapon that doesn't look like weapon into a place you normally wouldn't be able to carry a weapon and you're still the good guy ?" Well... in a regular french people life XD
When I trained in Security many decades ago, our team was shown a Prison Morgue photograph of a corpse with an ordinary yellow BiC ballpoint pen embedded in its temple. I've never forgotten that, and found it expedient to carry a metal ballpoint in my top pocket at all times. I've done much travelling on airlines, and never had it confiscated, even when they took away a tiny nail file which would have been utterly useless as a weapon ! Also, now that I'm a crippled geriatric, no-one (even on airlines) seems to realise that my waking-stick with its heavy brass head is as lethal as a Zulu's knobkerrie !
I need a weapon not because my intentions are questionable but because yours might be. I may need to hide a weapon for the same reason. Concealing a weapon to protect yourself even where "not allowed" is not immoral. Like "Sorry you don't have the right top protect yourself here." Well actually I do.
I always carry a Tenegui (3 foot cloth), I can carry it anywhere even on a plane, more to the point I can always find something similar even if I do not have one. Tie a knot in the middle or tie a couple of coins in it and it becomes an effective garrot. Tie a small weight at one end and you can use it as a whip. Have a small stone and it is a sling shot. Been used for centuries and still effective. More to the point if I drop the weapon and my opponent picks it up unless they know how to fight with it, it wi not help them.
Question for Viewers: What everyday item that you can carry makes the best weapon?
Keys they are made of metal and you can injure your aggressor with them
A Live throwable Snake and Turantula
Depends on the context but I would say a pen. You've covered a pen on the channel and understand my logic behind this answer without me saying why.
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Crutches are nice, you just have to break your leg to not be dubious
Now I'm imaging an Icy Mike animated series and a big cartoon security guard picking Mike up by the leg and shaking him and making all sorts of guns, knives, medieval weapons and maybe even a frying pan or pot lid just rain out of his pockets.
Icy Mike Animated with clips from his videos would be so good
"is that everything?! “
Shameful head shake
*second shake
1 single Kubotan drops and Mike fights a tear
Is this the start of Hard2Hurt fanart?
That's actually a brilliant idea haha
Like the scene from The Mask when they're taking out all the stuff out of his pockets.
My workplace was the site of a nationally televised mass shooting. My colleagues and I can tell you how bad it sucks to be weaponless while a gunman stalks and executes your friends. Afterwards, many of us discussed how to prepare for any repeat, and we stockpiled improvised weapons such as hammers, screwdrivers, etc. We also tested various distracting tactics and settled on laser pointers, which are great at momentarily blinding an assailant. When I became the director for our division, I instituted drills in how we would fight back if escape wasn't possible. One final thing is that I bought a quality bullet-resistant plate for my briefcase. Thanks for the video, Mike.
The workplace shooter was my first thought as to where you'd want a weapon but couldn't carry one.
Guess what? The bad guy has a fucking gun and you've got a fake, but very sharp pencil :) yeah good luck.
@@jimofthenorth8090 You're absolutely right. Thats why I consider some sort of bullet resistant shield a must for the office. In my opinion, every student desk should have one as well. Even if never used, there is a tremendous mental health benefit in feeling that you have the means to contribute to your own safety.
Laser pointers are not good at momentarily blinding people. You would be better off throwing a chair.
@@hard2hurt Well, that's not what our testing showed. We had good results against volunteer simulated shooters from across the room. Our practiced tactic was for some to shine lasers from far away while those closer threw objects (including chairs) while closing to grappling distance. Of course, getting away is the best choice if possible. The odds of successfully defeating a determined person with a gun aren't good. Our hope was that having a plan that we practiced would raise the chances from zero.
What about just a gun?
Growing up in the 80s in a city where there would be fights often especially at bars, corner stores etc. I remember OG guys carrying small bags of sand in their pocket especially bouncers to throw in someone's face for self defense, I believe they called it "Sandman". And have actually seen a few guys do it. Very effective and not a blunt object.
We had the same thing at my votech school but instead of self defense we’d just randomly throw sand in each others eyes and shout “sandman!”
from mission impossible, hogans heros and the great escape to the A-team and Mcguiver...all things are not what they seem.
Simply reference the list of illegal weapons for ideas as to what is taught vs. what is possible. this 5' 7" father of small children always has something handy as well as plan(s) B and C .
if, we get to plan D; I clearly was at fault or out of my league.
ill gjve you one... eighty pound monofiliment coiled up with a few beads , makes a nice bracelet, garrot or nifty restraints.
To snare an appendage, closeline a rushing force and hogtie any loose ends.
without the sharpness of braided line or bulk of paracord.
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Pro tip.
Sock with a golf ball.
I remember my pops back in the 80s when I was a kid, he would use anything as a weapon. Couple guys were causing a scene at a store once, my dad broke the antenna off the car and used it as a weapon. Bea the crap out of those guys with it. Lol @@matthewsabal81
Bruh that's Pocket Sand.
Hi Mike- I do self supported mission work in impoverished countries. Any impoverished country does not have anywhere near the law and order we are used to, it’s not even close. Yet at the same time, foreign jails/court systems are definitely NOT somewhere you want to ever get caught up in. Many of these countries have laws against even carrying a pocket knife, and they will not accept an ignorance of the law excuse. I basically have three realistic favorites that are very unlikely to get you in legal hot water.
1. Pepper Spray…. Thugs are not associated with pepper spray, so carrying a small keychain not usually looked at in a negative light. In my opinion that most underestimated tool out there. I’ve used it for over 15 years in corrections and law enforcement, it’s a fantastic distraction technique to either get someone to ultra flinch (giving you a chance to close the distance) or if there is more than you can handle surprise multiple people with it and run away.
2. Flashlight- you have covered this one.
3. Unbreakable umbrella… in a tropical country you need a good umbrella anyway, might as well add about $80 and have a really good one to serve dual purposes.
It's most likely not for justice, but to extort money from some "rich yank in the USA".
nigga goin kingsman on em
Pepper spray is illegal over most of Europe
@@bigglyguy8429true, it’s also first world. I’m addressing the law environment of third world, which is completely different
Walking sticks of different designs, make good self protection tools , pocket deodorant spray mini style 😎
I moved one of the powder fire extinguishers near my position on the front door when I did security at the club. People very quickly forget how to attack someone when they're covered in white powder and struggling to breathe. It works in a pinch.
Be careful. That can come back at you criminally.
@@ColeSchultz-i3hFr? Why? (Not being sarcastic, I'm just curious)
Here's one a friend of mine used once. A handkerchief with a big glass marble sewn into the corner and tucked inside his outer suit jacket pocket. You pretend you're about to sneeze and lean closer to your target while reaching for the handkerchief, and instead of a sneeze, the target gets a skull-fracturing whack to the head. He trained with that thing for months to be able to pull that move off.
I think in my area that would be considered a "sap" which is illegal. Luckily in my area knives aren't legally considered a weapon unless you intend to use it unlawfully against another person. So always carry a good knife when i can't carry my gun, unless i am going to some place with a metal detector.
Monkey paw instead. I don't think that is even recognized as anything so far.
Sewn a reasonable nut to your cap.
I shall remember that one thanks
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Sometimes I worry about Mike. He's basically sitting around all day thinking about how he can kill people with different objects. When he's not doing that he's practicing killing people with said objects
Totally normal
I thought that was what made Mike so relatable 🤷🏻♂️
@@hard2hurt This is why you are no longer a cop, I hope!
Then, again, there are clearly a lot of "Derek Chauvins" still out there, unfortunately.
I wouldn't worry about Mike, he'll be fine.
@@mikevaldez7684 A lot of non-compliant junkies, too.
One place I can see this being useful is like for people who are travelling alone at night to like night classes. Sure you may not need it in the class but what about getting back to your car? Its dark, and creeps do exist.
Only if the place has metal detectors. Otherwise you're fine with metal. But i would assume anywhere that offers night classes are not going to be high security places with metal detectors.
@@donniea.5429 where are there metal detectors outside of airports or high security government buildings?
@@JourneyToTheCage high schools and colleges.
I have a class early in the morning on Saturdays and I always bring my knife with me just in case (my knife has a blunt peice of metal on the handle that I could use without facing legalities)
Also some museums have them if they have high enough traffic. They are not always obvious. When you go into a place with a second set of entry way doors, they are built into the frames of the second set of doors.
An old instructor of mine said that the best "improvised weapon" in the non-permissive workplace was to have a glass ashtray on your desk. He could throw it with enough force to dig it halfway into a wall - that was good enough for me.
Ketchup bottles are popular in Los Angeles
ketchup is good , (less likely to throw it back!)
@@luvmechanix - They were popular there in DC for awhile too.
I worked in a courthouse for a year, after hours, but got there before they closed, and had to pass through a metal detector to get in. I didn't drive, didn't have a car to leave my stuff in, and had to walk home at night, through some of the most dangerous parts of one of the most dangerous cities in the US. Usually, I'd be carrying a knife or two. At first, I started stashing one outside, but I was always worried a homeless guy would find it or something. So, I got into plastic weapons. There are plastic spikes that lace into your shoe laces, and all kinds of plastic knuckle/spike weapons that I believe are pretty damn effective, especially if you already have some training and experience. So, I was the good guy, having to carry something in a "non-permissive environment".
I'm a disabled vet who actually uses a cane; they are great. I've also worked security for the military and feds. The ADA is misunderstood. For example, the TSA says you can take a mobility aid, a cane, on a plane but not a walking stick. If it has mods that make it a good weapon (knurling, edges, spikes, blades) it's a no-go. Who decides? They do. Same for federal bldgs. The stuff that looks like a marker/pencil but isn't? It's clearly not a marker/pencil and you know it, so you are in possession of a weapon... at best you will lose it, at worst they will make your life interesting. Odds are they won't catch it, but if they do, don't be an ass about being sneaky and getting caught. There are usually lots of things already inside wherever you are going you can use in a pinch if you're smart. Be smart.
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Very true, if you are to the point of using a fake marker as a spike, a broken mop handle or chair could also be found and used.
@@heybuddy7410 😁 lets not go too far down that route. lol. bang stick in a cane tip.😆
A good plain wooden cane is all you need, it does not need spikes, edges, or blades.
A 12 cane.
I've seen a police officer look closely at a pen he took off a person and checked that he could write with it. Once he could see it had ink he was happy. There are some self defense pens that also write which would help if you ever use it and have to explain yourself.
Another good item for self defense is steel toe-capped shoes. Some of them don't look obviously like workboots.
Carrying a weapon concealed or not doesn't matter if you can't properly use it. Some people buy something online or whatever and they carry that around and they get this false sense of security that *may* put them in a very bad situation. What are you going to do with your wooden knife when someone pulls out a gun and shots you. Assuming you're a regular person, following laws and so on a criminal does not so you're always at a disadvantage. The best solution as always is try be smart, most situations can be talked out of and avoided entirely. Where I live even attacking someone breaking into your home can be turned against you! It's ridiculous.
@@huldu yep. any sign that says "no weapons allowed" basically actually says "all weapons allowed for criminals". what do we do about the laws these politicians make such as laws that punish people for attacking someone who broke into their home.
Wearing workbooks is acceptable everywhere though
@@luvmechanix - Did you mean workBOOTS? I've seen some that could project sharp little knives from the toe region but looked just fine otherwise.
I carry a strong self defence pen that also writes. Having an arthritic wrist & carpal tunnel syndrome is my cover for this! 👍
I once carried a self defense cane when I sprained my knee. Despite the injury, everyone assumed it was a cane sword. Everyone knows what a cane sword is, so its not gonna fool anyone lol
the trick is to just buy a normal heavy and durable cane as a club.
@@sarahmellinger3335 There are special made canes for defense use.
They look just like a regular cane, but take the abuse better, and can have little additional parts that aid you ability to retain the cane.
@@sarahmellinger3335 especially if you get something that looks more like an old style walking stick, just made of decent wood. Less likely to raise suspicion, as people with mobility issues, particularly the elderly, still use them (whilst cane-as-fashion-statement only works if your an aristocrat), and whilst you are literally taking self defence advise from gandalf at that point, construction is also a reasonably simple DIY task and as such, you can shape it to suit your needs (within reason). You'd need to look up what local woods are good/traditionally used for weaponry (as you need a straight branch of appropriate size, when making a walking stick, defensive or not) but then you can probably make it yourself for minimal costs. Plus, if you live in an appropriate environment, no one will particularly object to it having a dirty great metal spike, openly visible, on the end in icy conditions (my work's security policy isn't especially tight, but would otherwise extend to 'no spears').
@Paul Ridgeway Kid do you make drugs or you try to sell them to us and here I come and say STOP!
Watch at Metatron, Shadiversity, Skallagrim, and others that are directly recommended by Them. Stop rimming men.
I once was a fearless warrior like you, until I got an arrow in the knee.
An ethical case would definitely be in a country like mine where any actual weapon will be perceived by law enforcement as "intent to cause someone harm" but those intent on causing someone harm still get away with carrying them
UK or Australia?
@@albertoftasmania or germany?
The united states in a lot of instances even
@albertoftasmania Or Canada. We have no right to self defense here.
I say fuck anti self defense laws, and gun free zones. They never protect anyone.
The key thing everyone needs to understand ... YOU are the weapon.... everything else are just tools you might get to use... depending on where you are and your specific circumstances. For example... you sit down at a restaurant... you have the plate, the mug or glass and its liquid, the silverware, the chair, handful of salt/pepper to blind or distract, throw the food or condiments (tabasco or syrup in someone's eyes is nasty)... in short use what is around you... and of course if you can carry something (knife, firearm, etc.) that is a bonus. Regardless remember - YOU are the weapon - now train yourself to not be a victim.
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Great post! If you haven't already, read "The Most Dangerous Game" and/or watch the movie. Actually, there's probably more than one movie version. It's a fiction story, but based on your statement that we are the weapon. The game referred to in the story refers to prey animals (game) and the hunt for them (the game play of hunting). However, in this story, the hunter is a nut job who prefers to hunt the most dangerous game of all--PEOPLE!
I'm disabled, with a number of health issues, including limited mobility. No attacker will wait politely while I get out of a gun, so that isn't a practical weapon for me. I'm in the habit of considering possible defensive weapons, shielding, and exits around me. No, I don't think that everyone is out to get me. It only takes one violent person to hurt or kill people, so I feel that I'm just being prudent. Knowing what I can use to protect myself in a dangerous situation actually has a calming effect. I am also surrounded by lots of nice people, so no, I'm not paranoid. I just feel safer by being prepared to deal with that one dangerous person, should I ever cross paths with them. Also, I have had a few encounters with bad people in the past, so I know that being prepared is better than being helpless. Fortunately, most people are pretty decent.😊
I would say for 2:50 is if your someone who goes into people's houses for services, like if you hook up people's cable or do a job where you don't have a lot of tools on you but you go into people's houses. Your employer may not want you to bring weapons with you, and if your weapon is visible they might be uncomfortable, but you may not want to walk into a strangers house with no protection.
if your a cable guy u prob got a knife on u
Electrician here,we arent supposed to carry but everyone does.We are in some really dangerous situations with hostile homeowners.
All tools can be weapons with the right mind set.
Saw a guy beat his adult son almost to death with a pair of 9” linemen pliers. Kid cussed out the superintendent and nearly cost his dad’s company a really big rebar job.
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you don't need a sword cane (which are illegal everywhere as far as i know).
just a normal cane made from hickory, oak, or other hard wood can be a defense tool.
Regular hardwood cane. Ice spike / metal spike on the tip.
@@sie11pervan FAA (and many other) regulations prohibit metal tips.
therefor you have to put it in hold baggage ... or leave it at the counter etc
defeats the purpose.
don't need a metal tip.
a 1inch diameter cane of good old american hickory works just fine with a rubber tip.
@@grayman7208 Oh absolutely! It's just that I've always seen people with those steel type tips here in this area! I thought that was a very common walking stick / cane thing.
@@sie11pervan
i broke my pelvis in an aircraft crash in the military 20+ years ago.
used a hickory cane since.
have several.
the only time i have ever had an issue, was when it had a metal tip.
like the example i gave ... airlines will not allow a metal tip.
a rubber tip is fine.
a rubber tip gives no issues ... and when jabbing the cane like a spear ... the rubber tip is not relevant.
It is perfectly legal to carry a sword in Arkansas. Nobody does, because they're a pain to deal with in cars, but it's legal.
In England you can be arrested and convicted for carrying anything “made, adapted or intended to be used as a weapon” - so you can’t even do anything or say anything that would suggest any of your non-obvious defensive weapons are weapons. It’s legally enforced defenselessness.
Yeah, but that's because the State should have a monopoly on violence. And it's good that cops don't routinely carry lethal weapons.
I was going to ask what do we do in the uk. Good old fists vs some youth carrying a machete 😢
A pencil is not fitting that description
In Germany too
Even so in Switzerland. Every
everyday item which could be used as a weapon in a self defence situation, will be treated as a real weapon in court. The only allowed item is pepperspray. And after use you have to give first aid to your attacker. Otherwise you will receive a fine.
Working in construction for over thirty years,it's amazing how many weapons a carpenter carries everyday that get no real notice.
I keep a milwaukee duct knife in the bucket buddy that's not used for work...lol
Giant (thickest and longest one you can find) Slim Jim beef stick still in the package is the funniest improvised weapon I’ve seen. 😂 I work in a level 5 prison and one of the offenders beat the crap out of another using one of these. We were curious so we tried it out on each other. YOU’d be surprised how much it hurts. Reminded me of the stinger whip! Would love to see you review it. 🤣
So, the dude beat another dude with his meat? Quite the power move.
Mike please we need this video.
@@PhoebeEtc This idea has Mike written all over it.
The funniest one I saw on video was gas from a gas station as he was filling up his car.
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I live in London. Practice self-protection. I use a wide range of stationary at work. I carry a mean piece of a pointy mechanical pencil in my pocket. A quality pencil in solid aluminium is as good as a spiky pen. The real issue is whether you are as prepared as the attacker. Any mean piece of equipment is useless if you're taken by surprise...
I always carry a gift wrapped box to counter surprise anyone who surprises me.
@@buddhaspriest what's in the box?
A surprise, can't you read?
@@ethanstover9859 Always ready to initiate a spelling battle :D
@@TicTac-g7m It's a surprise...
Practice turning everything you see into an improvised weapon: book, magazine, chair, newspaper. Glass, hat, towel, shoe, rock, stick, guitar, sock, headphones, wall clock and so on and so on. Analyze everything you see and ask yourself how you could use it as a striking tool. Once you train your brain to do this, then you can walk into areas where the transport of any weapon is illegal and feel secure that no matter where you are there will always be something that you can pick up and use to defend yourself.
Pick up and throw a piano why not xD
@@tylerellis9832 a lot of things you ca do with a piano. You could roll it in front of a door as a barrier to prevent an active shooter from coming into the music room at a school. If the piano is bigger than a console, a small person could hide in it. If you have a wire cutter on your multi-purpose tool, you could cut out the bass strings and make a whip or use it as a garrote. You could pick up the piano bench or piano stool and use it as a defensive barrier against a knife attack. You could pick up a piano book and roll it up and use it as a jabbing weapon. You could roll up that same piano book around your forearm and tape it in place to make a bracer for your forearms which will protect you from knife stabs and slashes. You could place one large or two small piano books under your T shirt to protect you from knife stabs and slashes to the stomach and chest. You can do the test yourself, place a magazine or a typical music book on a flat surface and thrust the knife as fast as you can and it will not penetrate all the way through the magazine. Look inside a piano bench and you will find a tuning fork which makes a good weapon. Pick up the metronome on top of the piano lid, and now you have a heavy object to throw at your assailant and rush him with a forceful fist to your attackers solar plexus. Do I have to go on or do you get the picture? Just because I am a piano player does not make me a wimp.
Hell yeah. I like this ideology.
@@tylerellis9832 A piano certainly is a weapon. You've made the mistake of assuming a weapon has to be able to be picked up. If you can push or pull someone into it or over it, it's still falls into the category that Zoom piano player referred to in his/ her brilliant, potentially life saving observation .
This is the Sean Connery / Roger Moore way- improvise.
This made me remember the time I went to a museum(for a college class) and I completely forgot that I sown a hidden(but easily accessible) compartment on my backpack for those mini push daggers so I could easily pull if I was ever in serious trouble(I don't live the the nicest of places), and security was checking all the bags... Thankfully they didn't find it though XD
Good job!
LOL you really lucked out! In many jurisdictions you could have been arrested for even possessing push daggers outside your house, much less trying to enter a museum with them!
sewn vs sown
@@richardschneider4775 the grammar would still be incorrect
Good grammar or not isn't going to be important if he pulls that push dagger.
"I'll punch this into your eye; I ain't messing around!"
"You mean you AREN'T messing around."
My friend had a stun gun years ago, and it was utterly useless even on a full charge. We used to shock each other with it for fun, and nobody was ever incapacitated (more like invigorated).
I thought it was just the one I bought! I had my friend zap me, and I had a mattress in front of me to stop me banging my head. It just tickled.
I got one because they are kind of fun. I was already carrying a handgun at the time, and I knew stun guns are trash for actual defense, but the little electric arc is cool. The first thing I did when I got it was to zap myself. No surprise, it hurt a bit and that was all. For a while I carried it in my car to keep myself awake on long drives, but it didn't even do that well so now it's in my room somewhere. I later got an electric arc lighter. It's just as cool and actually useful for something.
Thanks for the info. I've wondered about this and am also interested in stealthy defense items. I'm disabled, so I need easy, but not obvious stuff, although I have considered stun guns. I definitely don't want any type of air horn or loud shrill whistle. Those would incapacitate ME from the pain and damage my already faiing hearing. Bad as it is, I can still hear those painful shrill sounds.
Regarding sword canes: Matt Easton of Scola Gladitoria made a nice video about them. The TLDR is that they had banned the carry of swords for civilians, thus they made walking canes their new status symbols, often with exotic woods and silver mace-heads. They were more often than not weapons in plain sight, but many were still preferring thrusting weapons, as they had an epee-culture. Even back then, they were ILLEGAL, but most police and courts ignored the rules because they were of the same upper class as the ones that carried them...
Living in the UK, everywhere is a place where you can't take a weapon, so my strategy is to look for things that are definitely not weapons but will work as weapons anyway. Britain, being as it is, means umbrellas are carried by people a great deal. Unbreakable umbrellas are available and can be used to stab and strike.
You mentioned walking sticks, but we can't have any hidden blades in ours. I don't think the blade is necessary when all you have to do is hit your opponent with a good heavy stick. I have a couple of Cold Steel walking sticks and either could split a skull. The trick here is to look like you actually need a walking stick, it's easier if you're a bit older but, as you say, if you're younger you're not going to look as if you need one and a policeman is going to ask why you're carrying a stick.
I think my favourite thing is the BFT belt made by Kenwood (bft stands for blunt force trauma,) and you could conceivably take it anywhere. It's just a normal belt really but everything is dialled up to 11. The strap is very thick leather and the buckle is able to put a dent in a car door when you use it as a flail. I don't actually own one, I wish I did, but the shipping from the US is astronomical.
As long as its not labelled as a weapon or tactical and you don't say its for self defence and you have a legitimate purpose for it (walking stick to walk with) and you only use it if necessary when attacked you should be fine.
Ditto for Japan, any weaponry carriage without a legitimate purpose (self-defense not included) is in violation of the Minor Offenses Act. Except the Yakuza don't seem to apply the same rule. Even flashlights are not allowed, so...
Do the police really stop you and ask why you're carrying a walking stick?
Not trying to be stupid because you really got my attention, but is it “Kenwood” or “Lenwood.” When I read what you wrote, I immediately looked it up because I want one. Once again, not being a troll, I’m genuinely interested in buying one.
@@jackpackage9386 Yes, if they suspect that your carrying a walking has nothing to do with a bad leg or other mobility issue.
My wife works in an environment that is supposed to be "weapons free," and my 16 yo daughter is in HS. I bought Sharpies from Clanton Combatives for everyone's Xmas stocking 2022, and ordered one of his carbon fiber IWB dagger. Everyone always has a sharpie on them, cuz you don't know where you'll need it. We've brought all of those items and Cold Steel FGX items into wrestling events in Seattle and Portland, where we've passed through metal detectors and security checks. It's not the event I'm worried about, it's getting through Seattle or Portland from parking area to event and back. Great products.... I would recommend Clanton Combatives to anyone.
I like how you think. Great video! A friend of mine is a retired Air Force pilot who flew commercial aircraft after leaving active duty. After 911 he said to me “the hell with little SAKs, I want all passengers shoe laces, belts and pens confiscated. The TSA is so single minded that they think guns and knives are the only threats.”
If you must remain legal then a capped sharpie in the ribs or a Cross pen poked anywhere on the face or body will make most people back off, even if only momentarily.
Back when I was a teenager living with my Dad, he would always test me in different places, in what items I would use as a weapon and how. For instance, in his living room, it was easy, as we had the privacy to pick things up and use them. But even when we would go to a restaurant, sit at an airport gate, or even in an airplane. It's amazing how many everyday things around you can be used as a weapon, if you are trained and could know what to do with them. As for an example, back in 2007, a bowl of hot soup protected me from being jumped by a gang of Vietnamese in Laos PDR.
You seen our equalizer videos? Your dad would be good at it.
Hot soup burns like a bitch, this type of situational awareness is key in places where open carry or weapons are not allowed.
@@hard2hurt Thank you. I will check it out and send him the link. It is a blessing to hear from you: thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment: I'm honoured. God bless you.
@@casparbosch5615 Yes! Plus, those same "men" were armed with knives as well; and they outnumbered me. Once again, as my Dad trained me when I was a teenager, you wouldn't believe how many "weapons" we are surrounded by. Even the great Miamoto Musashi defeated one of his toughest opponents by using a boat oar against his opponent's sword. If you are trained, you can make use of anything as a weapon. In Muay Thai, back when I was a lot younger, we were trained to walk around the ring and find grooves in the ring floor to use against our opponent.
That is awesome.
I'll remember that.
Your dad wanted you to be safe.
My concern with the weapons that look like sharpies is if your hands are sweaty or bloody (which could be very likely in a self defense situation) , the smooth surface could make them very difficult to wield and control.
In my lovely home of The Netherlands, bringing any weapon is in most cases interpreted as intent for whatever goes down. After all, if you were not looking for trouble, why bring something for trouble? Even if you use the weapon that you take of your attacker, you get slapped with a weapons charge, because you used a weapon. Anything used that causes any harm can be deemed a weapon on par with a sword. Training in martial arts means that you are more easily prosecuted for excessive violence.
The entire country is a non-permissive environment, I wouldn't even risk a tactical pen because it is marketed as such.
A shocking amount of people apply that flawed logic. "If you're prepared, you must have wanted it to happen". Or just as common, "it's unfair that you were prepared and other people weren't".
I'm sorry you have to deal with that. I don't know how you do it, honestly.
I live in one of these same kind of dumbass countries too.
So your nation blames the victim....
@@Ashtor1337 I don't think they blame the victim, I would say it's more like they have unrealistic expectations on how they think people can handle potentially lethal threats and violence.
Your politicians deserve to be disarmed, without bodyguards, without locks on their front doors with their name, face, home address and work address and common locations doxxed. Let's see how they feel.
I think the best would be a flashlight, as you said, and a simple metal tactical pen WITH A FLASHLIGHT... When I was traveling I always got into trouble with "tactical looking" tactical pen, but when I took one with the flashlight, I NEVER had an issue, and that includes "tensed" countries like Ukraine (twice).
Good video. The term tought in Marine Corps Bootcamp is, 'Weapons of Opportunity.'
I tough my children and grandchildren that, "They are the Weapon that uses, Tools of Opportunity. "
A Non-lethal option I keep on the truck for close and personal is, a Rubber Mallet.
For years I have recognized that, due to their excellent construction and quality, my 0.5mm Black Pentel Pencils are, essentially, a stealth "weapon". Although the outer casing is plastic, the central core is all metal, terminating in a chromed iron tip that is fine enough to just allow the 0.5mm pencil lead to come out.... take a look, be surprised. Carried through airports, along with my pens, sharpies, and notebook since I fell in love with them as a writing instrument 30 years ago. A real sharpie, one of the thicker ones (but not the blunt tip version) would be an excellent impromptu thrust weapon, particularly to the throat and or face because you can concentrate all of your thrust energy into a highly concentrated area.... and you'll crush or break body parts; plus the thicker sharpie fits well in most human's hands.
A fucking pencil
Martin, take a look at the Papermate stainless steel pen or pen and pencil sets at any decent office supply store.
@Flushdraw which models exactly?
I'm a pencil fan so I really would like to add something so solid to my collection.
Mike walking around like the fuckin Doom Slayer, pulling weapons out of his magical butt pocket dimension.
Dooms layer? More like Gta with an RPG and a Tank command
Is that a butt... pocket dimension or a butt-pocket dimension?
@@hard2hurt ;)
Your best option was his first; the flashlight. You will *NEVER* get into *ANY* kind of trouble *ANYWHERE* for carrying one. (there are no laws against them that I'm aware of in the entire known universe) At worst your flashlight might be temporarily confiscated in a courthouse or Federal facility, but you will always get it back when you leave.
A sturdy (read: heavy for its size) 3" to 4" long flashlight with an aggressive bezel is a great weapon. It won't easily be knocked out of your hand, and it adds weight similar to that of a roll of nickels to every punch that you throw. As an added bonus, if it has enough lumens it can confuse and slow down an attacker if you're able to shine it in their eyes. This will only buy you a second or two at best, but sometimes that's all you really need. And it beats a blank.
That is actually a reason I frequently here from people who are against carrying weapons. "I'm so clumsy that I'd be more likely to hurt myself than defend myself with it."
Yes- and that's okay! As long as they stay in their lane and NOT enforce that on others. Their INCOMPETANCE does not equal my SKILL.
Pffft who would hurt themselves with a weapon? What a klutz!
@@hard2hurt *sweats nervously in tomahawk-ripped shirt and whip chain to the eye*
I mean, learn to wield it?
Those people should actually train then. I can't stand people who deem themselves too incompetent to defend themselves with a weapon, so they feel the need to disarm everyone else too.
This is a lesson I have had to teach people in the past. The TL;DR version of the lesson is Weapon Theory, as follows:
A weapon is defined as any object wielded as offensive and/ or DYNAMIC defense; dynamic defense being defined as the object changes position realative to the person's body.
Thank you for the definition.
We need pictures to remember but words to understand.
To those who say, "Shouldn't Have A Weapon...". All weapons are Defensive Weapons, until used to violate someone else. Our great, great, great grandfathers carried SWORDS with them everywhere. Any law that forbids one from carrying a weapon for self-defense is a violation of Rights.
So in all honesty, I'm one of those weirdoes who likes to carry less obvious, more covert "weapon alternatives" whenever I'm out and about. I've commented on this channel before about my predilection for knuckledusters, but I also like having a ~tactical~ pen on me when possible and the gloves I use in cold climates are reinforced at the knuckles.
The main reason I do this is because, as I've mentioned before, guns are heavily restricted in the country I'm in, so the citizens have to be more creative about how they carry their self-defense implements. These weapon alternatives aren't explicitly illegal, don't outwardly look like weapons (so they don't alarm my friends and coworkers) and give me plausible deniability in case a figure of authority asks about them.
Do I feel good about carrying them, even as I know the people around me implicitly agree to disarm themselves so we can interact in a civilized manner? _Not really,_ but I comfort myself in the knowledge that I'm a capable individual whose practiced in the use of these weapons and that I won't use them unless I feel my own life or the life of someone else is threatened first (and even then, I'd try to bring my less-harmful hand to hand skills to function first before I ever thought of using a weapon against someone).
Are a lot of these mall ninja shit? Totes, but mall ninja shit is often better than the alternative when the alternative is nothing at all. If nothing else, some of these give me something to throw at the bad guy while I run away.
You gotta do what you gotta do to defend yourself so you can get home to your loved ones. All the people who hate on law abiding citizens owning weapons for self defense ain't gonna come to your funeral or support your family if you screw it up.
In what country r u allowed to carry brass knuckles as far as I understood they r legal to own but I don't think hardly any country allows them to be carried
@@K_c_B You are not lol, but who's gonna pat my ass to check if I'm hiding any weapons there?
@@a_stray_dog well as long as u r reaching in there to get ur brass knucks I don't know why u don't just use your booty~blunderbuss at least then u got some range
Listen as a Correctional Officer, the prison had a body shop. Metal detection does not work on fiberglass knives and swords, very sharp.
In college, my Kali Silat trainer taught us how to use everyday items in different scenarios, like a plastic straw or a book or a belt or towel. Interesting. Have kept that in mind and shared those ideas for the past 35 years. Love this info you provide!
Another point I should make here is that our trainer was one of the best in the world from the Dan Inosanto Academy .. and we held "classes" at USC from time to time .. and one of the most important things I feel like I got out of all of that was the various techniques for disarming. So, if you are up against a perp with 5 knives a gun and a stick and a sword, there are ways to not only disarm the perp but at the same time turn all his weapons back against him. I know everyone knows this stuff, but it's good to practice disarming with friends, and at 60 yrs old - I still do!
I heard a story of a surfer being mugged. He defended himself using his surfboard. He was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (said surfboard). The guys who mugged him had a very good lawyer. Crime pays. Surfing doesn't, unless you are Kelly Slater.
Was this Australia? This sounds like another 'Australia's politicians and judges begging to be hanged' story.
He needs to retaliate.
I've been turning every day objects into impromptu weapons since I was a kid, great video!
Anything can be a weapon in the right hands
IKR? John Wick owes me a hefty royalty check…
the VZ dagger would be something safe for you to carry if you work around powerful magnets or high-power lines. a very narrow group but a valid group nonetheless.
I have 2 artificial knees and an artificial hip. I walk with a cane sometimes and i use a polymer copy of an Irish Shellaigh. I have used it twice as a blunt instrument. If you do a bayonette thrust to the chest it is very good as a blunt instrument. It has never been forbidden. I am also 65 so I have ae in my favor.
The Marker Pens are the best and also the most inconspicuous. If you had them in your pocket with a notepad nobody would question it.
Maybe the wallstreet journal .
I wish I could find them anywhere on the web for sale.
Oh Really In Gaza I Was Dressed Like A School Girl Complete With Notebooks And Pencils That Didn't Stop Me From Getting Strip Searched At The First Checkpoint And That Was Checkpoint Number One of Ten And By Number Ten I Wasn't Even Wearing Underwear All Because of A Pencil The Jordon Valley "orgy" As The Media Likes To Call It Was Only A Follow Up To Multiple Palestinian Girls Witnessing Snow White And Before You Say That I'm A Lucky Dude My Head Is Still Spinning Full of The Indoctrination Those Girls Filled Me With Do You Know When Our Landing Party First Touched Down In Arafat I Had Absolutely No Problem With Jews Now I Don't Know What To Believe I'm Torn Between A Mom Who Wants Me To Go To Church And A Heram That Wants Me To Join Hamas And All Because of A PENCIL ! ! So Piece of Advice If You Wanna Get Go To Japan Gaza Is Not A Good Place To Get Laid And Believe Me It Can Get Funny When The American Boy Is Hiding From His Heram And That's Kind of The Part About Self-Defense Few Instructors Talk About What If The Person You Gotta Defend Yourself Against Is Someone You Have Sexual And Emotional Feelings For NOBODY PREPARED ME FOR THAT ! ! And In My Particularly Unique Situation It's One Vs Six And Yes I Have Intimate Feelings For All Six And Anyone Can Talk Tough When Their Six Crushes Are Not In The Room Make No Mistake "self-defense" Becomes Impaired When It's Intimate Like That And That's Why I Stay Hidden Because I Know My Heram They'll Find Me Eventually And When They Do It'll Get In The News Just Like It Did In Jordon Valley And Here In America That's A News Report That Could Lead To Muzzle Reports Followed By More Gun Control As That Seems To Be The Pattern With American Media
I can say when a weapon like that is needed. I worked as a journalist for many years, and the nature of the job has it that in a single day you have to visit several public events and then commute home via public transportation, walk in the neighborhoods and such. And in these events you very often have to go through a metal detector, and thing is - even if the event’s security policy is to just take the weapon to give it back to you later, the whole commotion might not look good on you and shit like that while you’re trying to do the work.
I just used a small push dagger back in the day that’s easy to hide on yourself - the detector would go off on the notebook/camera anyway, so the security would just inspect the bag and be over with it, BUT, what if there’s a patdown, yeah? I’d love to have that polymer dagger/spike thingy back in the day, and it wouldn’t make me the bad guy that I needed to trick the security. I didn’t need the weapon AT the event, I needed it for later, I just needed to carry it in.
I always carried tools as weapons. I would practice with different screwdrivers as a spike, and I preferred the Phillips driver for use over a straight blade, but I was good with both.
I also had other tool choices for different situations, but the drivers were my favs.
Keep a couple of $1 Stanley screwdrivers in your pockets, box with them in icepick grip if you gotta, throw them away if you gotta; nice solution in, say, Cook County, where cops look suspiciously at you for carrying string.
The world around us usually has weapons , if we just know how to use them. Screwdrivers are definitely good ones!
I carry a two-piece walking stick around 5 feet long.
Since I was trained in the BO staff and Philippine fighting sticks back when I was in the USNavy and stationed in the Philippines, its my weapon of choice because at 71 years old I can carry it anywhere and no one gives it a question.
and I can carry it on planes, buses and even into TSA check with no questions ask
Year's ago, prior to most of you viewer's were even born. A company by the name of BIC developed a ball point pen they stated was industructable. They gave an example shown during their TV advertistment of it being shot into a tree. It penitrated the tree almost half of it's length. When taking out, it still worked as it was designed. After seeing that, my entire pocket protector contents were replaced with BIC yellow ball point pen's and in both colors, that being black and blue.
I can tell you from experience that a bic plastic ball point pen explodes into fragments when you try to use it as a dagger. Pens and pencils are trash weapons.
That gag with all the weapons coming out! Best laugh in a long time.
As far as disgusted weapons go, I think anything is better than nothing, but my fave of this bunch is the pencil.
How about a vid with improvised weapons with stuff people always have on them, keys, cell phone, wallet, maybe lighters?
I am from Europe and my granddad (who was my legal guardian) was stationed in Germany, where I was in primary school from the age of 3 till the age of 11. For 7 years I had been pestered, bruised and beaten by the same 3 bullies at my school on a daily basis (Pascal, Vincent and Olivier) - My crime? I was the only Flemish guy in a French school. The last day at that school (I was moving to another town and another school afterwards) I told all three of them this in the morning: 'Leave me alone today, and we will all go our merry ways. Don't, and you will regret it.'
They all laughed. What was to be expected.
So, I took 3 regular (color) pencils out and sharpened them down, so that they would fit my small hand perfectly. I left about 3-4 cm sticking out the bottom, holding each of them so the pointy bit sticks out at the bottom when you make a fist, exactly like Mike is holding that 'pencil' in the video above.
The guy with the biggest yap, (his name was Pascal) came to me first, on the playground during the last recreation time while Vince and Ollie were standing on each side and a bit back to give him some room to maneuver. Before he saw it coming, I swung my fist downwards with the pencil sticking out like described above, and it went a few centimeters deep into his left Trapezium muscle, in the depression right behind the clavicle. He buckled in two and fell to the ground with an agonizing scream. The pencil was where I left it. Calmly i reached in my back pocket and took the second pencil. I made 3 pencils... one for each of them. And I just calmly and flatly said... 'next'. They both saw their buddy on the ground, something that had not happened before, and without looking at each other, but keeping their focus on me to see if I would come after them, they took a few steps back, leaving their buddy lie on the floor.
My gaze was so focused on both of them that I did not notice that the professor who was supervising the playground had come over to me and was standing next to me and looking at my hand holding that pencil - He did not touch me or try to 'disarm me', he knew why I had done this, and the situation of course, and I was still standing at the same spot where I drove the pencil into Pascal just a few moments ago. Then he calmly asked me if I would surrender my makeshift weapon. I shifted my attention from the two bullies, looked into his eyes and said, "that depends"... "on you making sure they won't come back at me when I surrender my pencil to you".
He promised me that they would no longer be a threat . After that, without a word, I gave him both remaining pencils. After that, the bell rang, and an hour later school was out. I never saw any of the three again, and my grandad (who probably afterwards got informed - although not the same evening) never reprimanded me about the incident, never gave me a lecture about it, never even spoke about it. It had happened, and that was that.
I was 11. I learned 2 lessons from this: I never gave anybody 7 years of credit anymore to fuck with me afterwards, but I can reassure you that a pencil, well sharpened can do some ugly things when controlled by a focused mind. - And no, you don't need to go for the eyeballs, that is overkill.
Inspiring. Good for you
Honestly, a solidly built metal pen in the hands of someone who already knows how to fight is acceptable everywhere and reasonably scary
Yes.
Facts!! Simple as that
To answer the question where I’m still the good guy in this scenario. I travel overseas a lot to less than friendly places and while being an American, I’m a target for terrorism. Most countries who have that problem don’t let certain electronics or Bibles much less weapons into their country. This video was great although I’m not sure I’ll carry any of these. I think you’ve said it before but knowing how to fight and recognize danger in order to escape is probably the best advice.
America making enemies everywhere
Wow! Just a standard BIC pen works great and they are everywhere. They don’t show up on a scan. A normal belt works great PROVIDED your pants don’t fall around your ankles. Great ideas. Keys can be used in a pinch.
People in UK have used walking sticks really well in self defence against muggers and these have been elderly people. Any type of pen or pencil not fake stuff will work really well.
Oh man I just commented that about a pen. Women should be presenting these things, not men. Because we literally run into some kind of self defense problem at least once a week until we turn 58 or so. No kidding. Any woman can tell you how to use a pen to defend yourself, with personal examples! Pencils. Keys. A frigging stick from a tree. Oh, I once used the guy's T-shirt, that was different.
Fold your glasses and it will hurt if jabbed into someone's neck etc
Umbrella.
With the belt rig, you pull the buckle off to use the knife and your pants fall down. Personally, I use a rock climbing carabiner to hold my keys. It's big enough for me to hold like brass knuckles. Never punch with it, only hammer fists.
1:01 you know you are carrying too much when you need to conduct a pat down on yourself 😁😂
Great video as always!
As a thug POS, this channel has been a godsend for my criminal career. Thank you. 😂
“If you’ve got nothing to hide….” - a term used by those in power. Funny how it never applies to them🤔
And they expect us to happily concede to wait 50 years to see the truth regarding certain events they've taken part in which they don't like the look of.
If you've got nothing to hide ... you are probably a very bland and boring person.
Thank you for your response - NSA
I carry a blunt wooden toy dagger i got at the local Renaissance fair in my Scott-e vest brand Hoodie (it has A LOT of pockets) and it cold possibly stop a knife if they are doing a slash and i block it with the side of it and the tip is just sharp enough that if you jam it into pressure points it can really hurt, it is hand carved and made of cherry wood, if anyone questions you about it you can say "oh, it is just a toy" and most would let it pass i assume
I have several of the Clanton Spikes. LOVE THEM and can neither confirm nor deny that they can be taken virtually anywhere
I think I'd very much rather carry the actual tools that those stealther weapons mimic. Law in my area is quite unforgiving to James Bond wannabes. An actual box of Dixon Ticonderoga or American Fabercastell #2 pencils is stupid cheap. And, I have witnessed those things improvised into genuinely life-threatening implements.
Is the law unforgiving? Or is that just what people say?
@@hard2hurt Badly worded on my part. The local self defense laws are actually very reasonable. The guys enforcing those laws: The tiny handful of ones I've occasionally bullshitted with at my former workplace told me don't take chances with mimic gear. LEOs might assume you were looking to field test your toys. Ironically enough, a cool-guy flashlight with a length of braided paracord and a charm or carabiner at the end; That can be a "personalized work tool". Just saying.
Ticonderoga are super durable for a pencil. Almost as good as the basic bic pen.
@@ehisey As well as being everywhere legal.
I find it interesting that on a certain site I've worked on it the past, where we had high level security and had the whole metal detector xray stuff, I only know realise why they used to take the lids of every pen and ask to see under my belt buckle 😅
EDC items that make good weapons (not counting pocket knives) - flashlight, actual pencils, actual Sharpies. After watching John Wick 2, I'm considering investing in a tactical hardcover novel. Preferably something by Robert Ludlum or Tom Clancy. 😅
small extendable ratchet can be used as a telescopic baton.
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@@lcranney5248 I am serious xD
I carry my bible in a case that I wouldn't doubt could knock someone out from beyond arms reach
@@nprwikeepa6082 The Bible is indeed a dangerous Book. Millions of dead MF, burned at the stake or killed as unbelievers.
13:08 good reaction, instead of grabbing for it you just let it fall to the ground.
some people might tend to prevent it from falling as a reflex from other stuff they let go of but with knives it´s the correct way
I'm very good at being very bad at this
The problem with markers is that security might just take it anyways because of all the graffiti and taggers out there
EpiPen might work. Or asthma inhalers.
Don't overlook defensive attire. Layers protect from getting hit to punctured. Small books in certain pockets protect. Limit the damage that can be easily done to you.
Also the right clothing allowing for freedom of movement and not acting as a disadvantage in wrestling situations (for example clip on tie > regular tie
That belt is something. Harder than finding a place I will need a weopon and can not bring one is trying to imagine a place where I will possibly need hidden belt knife and by some reason decided to show it for opening a bottle...
My daughter who lives by herself in a dangerous area, just asked me what kind of weapon she should get. I told her most anything she would get is probably going to get taken from her and used on her, unless she was very serious about USING the weapon.
Now that you’re serious, anything around you can be used as a weapon- anything. A dish, book, edge of your laptop, heel of your hand…. The seriousness of carrying out the threat is the most important.
I knew a girl whose house was broken into while she was sleeping. She woke up, had a gun, but didn't shoot the guy. He took the gun away from her and raped her.
But once she’s serious you should probably get her a purpose built weapon. Especially if she is in a bad area
Yeah, i understood the thought process but if she feels like she might need a weapon, her serious level is already elevated. Let alone that she lives in a bad neighborhood. Moreover, considering you raised her, she must understand the seriousness and intent of a weapon (unless you raised you incorrectly). Therefore, your little speech was unhelpful to her, and stupid.
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Get her a kershaw Emerson with a wave, have her practice drawing it a thousand times,. Watch some of Ed calderons stuff
The "I would rather neither" is correct. John from Active self protection always says you should make the decision yourself if you want to carry against the rules of an establishment, or if you're willing to take the *risk* of being caught without protection
You can always shop/dine/be entertained somewhere else, if you choose. I always take the term "concealed" literally.
I am old. I use a cane to walk. The cane has a beautiful, ornate brass handle that weighs about a kilo. Basically it's a pretty war hammer so I always have a weapon
I've always seen a basic full sized sharpie marker as a decent "compliance tool" on it's own. I do carry a fountain pen(pen snob, what.) daily that is mostly metal and not super "tactical" looking so it goes most places no problem even if the buzzers go off. The main trade offs are that I'm confident in my ability to use the sharpie and have actively trained with one. So it's not an off the shelf/anybody can proficiently use item in my eyes. Secondly, that fountain pen goes anywhere "IN" anyone/thing. The nib is almost guarantied left where it's stuck. So it's pretty much signing my work. That all said, I have never set out with the intention of taking any weapon or even a "compliance tool" into a place they were not permitted. Given there's never been either a reason to fear conflict or feel the need to defend myself from anyone there.
Depending on age... Im almost 50.. And am getting to where i have mobility issues.. The cane.. Nothing else,no sword or spike.. Traditional hook cane.. There's nowhere in America that if you need a cane will deny entry.. From the baseball swing to X swings,jabs,hooking and sweeps.. The cane really is the ultimate open carry weapon.. There's centuries old fighting techniques .. Walk softly and carry a big stick has no more truer meaning.. whipper snappers to critters.. Defensive/offensive
"Deadliest Warrior" did an episode.."Apache vs Mongol" i think.
The Apache in a tank top and jeans FILLED the table with his hidden weapons.
The point you made at around nine minutes is why I became a convert to the church of the violent flashlight.I have a better than a kuboton G10 spike, but you can just look at it and realize it's purpose built as a weapon and even though I have no intention to ever be the aggressor and never have been the aggressor, I can't deny it is a weapon that I am kind of sneaking into my workplace. There's no rules against bringing it there, I am breaking no laws, but it is because the law has not caught up to the reality of stuff now out there. So time for a flashlight.
I have a gun and in no way will be the aggressor, bit the people who make rules disallowing self defense tools don't care about aggressor/ victim right/wrong.. even in prison
A wooden pencil in close combat is an amazing weapon did mma for a few years and we used wooden dowls on pressure points between ribs armpits neck eyes etc are really affective .
Bonus, you can use the eraser end if you think it'll be enough to scare them without puncturing. They know which end they get next time if not convinced. I'm a fan of warning shots, most people don't have the conviction to pursue anything but a sure win.
If you have the proper training which 99% of people lack. Otherwise being big and as strong as mike tyson is even a better weapon.
I once saw him kill three men in a bar....
with a pencil.
I carry pencils around and instinctively pull one out and ready myself when threatened. Most people laugh which diffuses the situation but stabbing that one guy also diffused the situation.
@@Joe-hp8kb - Sounds like ur talking about John Wick. 🤔 He was fond of No. 2 pencils for combat.😊👍🏾
What is the marker that had a steel tip under the felt marker? You could still write with it but since the tip was just under the felt when you use it as a weapon.
My Dad was taught unarmed combat.
The things he told me I don't care to share on social media. You don't want to fight with anyone whom is mentally prepared.
Let me guess attacking eyes, ears, groin, neck. Unless your opponent has a knife in that case you will most likely die or at least get severely injured. I did thai boxing and let me tell you no one has a real chance against a fit knife wielding opponent. There is only so much you can do.
@@sierraecho884 don’t forget the knees. Broken knee, can’t run after you.
@@moonbaby6134 Yeah well to brake a knee is not that easy, it´s rather hard as well. I would prefer other areas.
@@sierraecho884 just kick it sideways. No need to break. Just like kicking a footy. The knee pain is excruciating. I had my then six year old daughter do it by accident years ago. I could hardly walk for an hour.
@@moonbaby6134 Just kick it sidewise...sure buddy. Just brake the neck why not that instead ? Stop watching too many action movies. The problem is not that it´s not possible the problem is it´s not the most efficiency thing to do. A knee kick to the soda plexus will basicaly do just the same or an elbow hit to the chin head etc.
Several friends have had no problem carrying a tactical pen through TSA onto planes in their computer bag - reverse the pen with the pen tip out and it looks like a normal pen on X-Ray
Once through security, take it out of the bag, restore the pen to normal and put in their shirt pocket - the good ones are aircraft aluminum, easily pierce skin, and are in fact actual working pens
In Hawaii, where you pretty much can't defend yourself, I made my girls a leather lace necklace with three hollow lead fishing weights. Wear it like a necklace, but can be swung at an attacker.
On TV they said Hell's Angels carry a hammer.
In my younger years I lived in New Jersey, where self defense barely existed. I would walk about 3 miles through town in the middle of the night. My first stop was Dunkin Donuts for a large, extremely hot cup of black coffee. Never had to use it, but the idea was it would really take the fight out of someone. Plus side I had a coffee for morning, just had to nuke it.
Isn't reheated coffe carginogenic?
@@junichiroyamashita I was in my 20's at that time and was probably putting worse stuff into my body.
I was once attacked pretty badly by swooping magpies and I couldn't run because I was recovering from a broken hip. They got increasingly bold because they could see I was lame and started doing near strikes to my head. I found a wax paper coke cup on the ground and filled it with gravel. I couldn't throw the gravel without the cup because I couldn't turn my shoulders and hips into a throw due to my hip injury, but the cup enabled me to kind of slingshot the stones out using a flick of the wrist. I was able to get a shot gun spread of the gravel that pushed the birds back long enough that I could limp slowly out of their territory. It's surprising what can be turned into a weapon, and how you can improvise a way out of a situation using whatever's to hand.
@@SwampCityRadio1974 That's crazy, it's nice that you were resourceful enough to get it done and protect yourself.
Magpies are Australian right?
@@junichiroyamashita it's carcinogenic before it's reheated. Heck it destroys your whole system by attacking your ability to digest food.
I live in the UK and knife crime is getting pretty bad over here and essential all self defence weapons are illegal those pens look like a great compromise If I have to protect my family.
I used to have a delivery job where from some stops I collected and carried cash, so this is something I gave some thought. One stop included a school, where you definitely don't want to bring a conventional weapon. Eventually I settled on a flashlight with a super bright LED that would also let out a super loud screech that sounded like you'd stepped on Satan's balls during an air raid. It clipped to a belt loop with a breakaway magnetic attachment so you could get it into action in a hurry. Never had to try it out thankfully.
Airport security considers hidden weapons as being "artful concealment with the intent to circumvent security screening." If you believe that you're being clever by testing it, you're setting yourself up for some major fines and putting yourself on a list.
A real pen with a steel body.
That's the thing though if its a real pen or pencil its not artful concealment, its a real pen or pencil. I kept pencils on me in airport cause I draw a lot. I know they can be used as a self defense tool or a deadly weapon. They legit can't do anything about that. I've even asked them about it. Its not artful concealment if its also a tool everyone pretty much has and use on an everyday basis. Its the one tool no one can really challenge. The only thing that could possibly land you in jail is your use of force during whatever situation said person is in. Other then that pencils and pens are about fine.
@@tangobayus What Mike Featured vs a legit pen that you're referring to are two completely different things. A pen with a steel body is, by design, a real sturdy pen. If you chose to be John Wick with that then you do you. But a carbon fiber spike (or hard plastic knife -I dunno it's been a minute since I watched this) fashioned to look like a pen isn't serving anything but the intent to harm.
@@digdugdat2847 I carry steel pens and small screwdrivers.
They would be pretty much all illegal in Europe, as weapons camouflaged as harmless objects is a serious offense. There are however some lights, umbrellas, and pens that are actually what they seem to be, just sturdy enough to be used to really hurt someone...
Personally, I got a bit of a grudge against knife laws.
1) everyone ignores them and unlike guns, it's utterly futile to enforce the weapon ban
2) knives have been carried by everyone for survival since the dawn of time and make the most important of the 5Cs (cutting, followed by combustion, and container...)
3) there are plenty of packages that can't be opened without a knife and food where your plastic knife isn't good enough...
imagine you had to use public transportation, wanted to go see a concert, where the venues policy is 'no weapons'. something concealed, that the venue security does not detect, might come in handy for the way home.
As a lone female; certain otherwise innocuous places can sometimes pose a potential threat. I often think of where I would run or what I could hurl at a larger and stronger human if need be.
I've said, for years, that even with all the pre-flight screening one must go through to get on a plane (I've had a dozen tiny Victrinox pocket knives that I forgot were in my pocket taken) the TSA will let you walk on a plane with a FISTFUL of Bic pens.
Mike's unconvential weapons reminds me of video game "Dead Rising" The zombies 🧟♂️ were offed with frying pans. Steven Seagal was a retired navy seal and became a dangerous cook 🍳 with a particular kind of culinary experience.
My knee acts up on occasion due to having twisted it in a fight when I was a teen so I have a selection of canes I use. I have a couple coldsteel canes (walkabout, and axehead) that are particularly mean but I also have some regular hardwood canes that get the job done and no one takes a second look. I still have a wee little knife I keep on me but it's strictly a last ditch weapon. And yeah most states banned swordcanes so just don't.
If it comes down to thinking about what kind of pokey/stabby things I can conceal, I think I would rather spend my time studying the exits and objects/furnishings that might provide good cover.
1:23 ~ And your little Swiss Army knife too. Let's go.
In Arizona, if you carry a weapon into a nonpermisive environment and then use said weapon, you would most likely be charged with a crime. In Arizona, if a place says no weapons allowed, it is enforceable by law. You can get in trouble doing that. Luckily, I haven't come across many places where all weapons are banned, just guns so I can still take my knife and pepper spray.
That is a bit surprising. I always thought Arizona was like Florida without the beaches 😉
2:50 "What's a situation where you would want to carry a weapon that doesn't look like weapon into a place you normally wouldn't be able to carry a weapon and you're still the good guy ?"
Well... in a regular french people life XD
That's what i was thinking about 😂😂😂😂
A long sturdy umbrella. Good for striking people and jabbing eyes with the aluminum end.
@@migueltorres1949 Jab...Aim low and thrust upward. Heads can duck and turn faster than a torso.
When I trained in Security many decades ago, our team was shown a Prison Morgue photograph of a corpse with an ordinary yellow BiC ballpoint pen embedded in its temple. I've never forgotten that, and found it expedient to carry a metal ballpoint in my top pocket at all times. I've done much travelling on airlines, and never had it confiscated, even when they took away a tiny nail file which would have been utterly useless as a weapon ! Also, now that I'm a crippled geriatric, no-one (even on airlines) seems to realise that my waking-stick with its heavy brass head is as lethal as a Zulu's knobkerrie !
I need a weapon not because my intentions are questionable but because yours might be.
I may need to hide a weapon for the same reason. Concealing a weapon to protect yourself even where "not allowed" is not immoral. Like "Sorry you don't have the right top protect yourself here." Well actually I do.
We are NO longer this smart! Governments are conditioning us to be good compliant victims! We can thank Marxism for this!
I agree completely with you. My intent is to protect myself and my family from people with evil intent.
I always carry a Tenegui (3 foot cloth), I can carry it anywhere even on a plane, more to the point I can always find something similar even if I do not have one.
Tie a knot in the middle or tie a couple of coins in it and it becomes an effective garrot.
Tie a small weight at one end and you can use it as a whip.
Have a small stone and it is a sling shot.
Been used for centuries and still effective.
More to the point if I drop the weapon and my opponent picks it up unless they know how to fight with it, it wi not help them.
You are one of those rare people who carries the most lethal weapon of all between your ears.