So..Got OC'd today..

[PoliceBeast]

Wow. All I can say is wow. That wasn't much fun at all. Gotta love reliving all of it when taking a shower after I got home. Genius move, I know. So so glad its over

[Challenge Coin]

Done taser yet? Makes for a fun comparison

[Michigan]

Yup. OC sucks ballsa.

[LA DEP]

Done taser yet? Makes for a fun comparison

I would let someone tase me at least 5 times before I would be OCed again....and I am talking about full 5 second rides, not the 'drive stun' nonsense

[tconn89]

I have OC spray coming up in a few weeks cant wait.

[Challenge Coin]

I would let someone tase me at least 5 times before I would be OCed again....and I am talking about full 5 second rides, not the 'drive stun' nonsense

Exactly! That's what I mean by fun comparison. When people ask me which is worse I say, "I'd take the taser every day of the week and twice on Sunday before getting sprayed again." For my academy we got the full ride, but I've heard of other academies giving people a "choice" of 1-3 seconds.

[Tony88]

What? They OC people now in the academy? I was just in the July class and we didn't get that at all.

[tj05]

I would let someone tase me at least 5 times before I would be OCed again....and I am talking about full 5 second rides, not the 'drive stun' nonsense

Preach, OC was bad and just when you forget about it, you take a shower.

[PoliceBeast]

I have OC spray coming up in a few weeks cant wait.

Haha good luck. I have a pretty high pain tolerance and yeah it's as bad as people say. We have tear gassing next week and I hear that's terrible as well.

[PoliceBeast]

Preach, OC was bad and just when you forget about it, you take a shower.

That was one of the worst parts! I was all nice and relieved then took a shower later on that night and on FIRE again.

[AppState]

I would let someone tase me at least 5 times before I would be OCed again....and I am talking about full 5 second rides, not the 'drive stun' nonsense

A thousand times this. Yeah, getting Tased sucks, but once it's over, it's 100% gone (minus the craters it leaves in your shoulder/leg).

My biggest way to try and explain the difference to people is that I could tell you what the Taser feels like. OC burns me so much that it's pretty much indescribable, and all of that is concentrated on your eyes.

[ArmyVet]

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A thousand times this. Yeah, getting Tased sucks, but once it's over, it's 100% gone (minus the craters it leaves in your shoulder/leg).

My biggest way to try and explain the difference to people is that I could tell you what the Taser feels like. OC burns me so much that it's pretty much indescribable, and all of that is concentrated on your eyes.

That's exactly how I describe it: eye pain. I've done the CS gas chamber in the Army, which is much better than OC. With the gas chamber it's mostly respiratory and after a few minutes of fresh air and flapping your arms, you're good to go. OC is just horrible, terrible eye pain. The taser is unpleasant, but over in five seconds. My eyes still hurt when I think about OC too long!

[NoWingedAngel]

Eff a bunch of OC. That was probably some of the worst pain I've ever felt in my entire life. I'm light-complected with freckled skin... it seems to affect redheads and semi-redheads worse than others.

15 minutes of gasping for air, another 30 peeling my eyelids open with a hose running over them.

And then came the shower later that night... thankfully, I remembered to fully bend over...

[SmallCityCop]

Eff a bunch of OC. That was probably some of the worst pain I've ever felt in my entire life. I'm light-complected with freckled skin... it seems to affect redheads and semi-redheads worse than others.

15 minutes of gasping for air, another 30 peeling my eyelids open with a hose running over them.

And then came the shower later that night... thankfully, I remembered to fully bend over...

I'm of pasty Irish heritage, so it was the same for me!!!

[Shush]

I've had horrible sinuses all my life, and I've used this stuff for a few years called "Sinus Busters". It's a nose spray that makes your sinuses drain. On the packaging, it says you may feel a slight tingling sensation at first. It has Capsicum in it, so the "slight tingling" is an understatement. But using that for so long to open my sinuses I think desensitized me. I got hit with OC and was prepared for the fire from hell to consume my face and to feel the flesh melting like in Raiders of the Lost Arc. Instead, I felt a slight tingle. And open sinuses.

Apparently for the last 2 years I've been OC'ing myself every morning in the shower.