Tag: PEPPER SPRAY

South African crooks have recently focused their attention on Absa Bank, one of the African nation's largest financial institutions, by bombing several of the company's ATMs during the last year. In the Western Cape region, a popular tourist destination, authorities also claim to have identified approximately 40 data-stealing card-skimmers at various ATMs. To protect its machines -- and inflict ...

Tasers and pepper spray are good for warding off an attacker a few short paces away, but what if you'd prefer to keep assailants at more than an arm's reach? Well, that's where the new (and surpsingly fashionable-looking) Avurt IM 5 Launcher comes in. The weapon launches paint-ball like capsules of pepper spray that explode on impact and cling to your would-be attacker, burning his or her eyes, ...