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[โ€“] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same in Ireland, not too sure about the UK legal situation since I don't really spend much time there anymore, but I'm still carrying / smuggling my Kubotan over to IE. There's some places you should really be prepared for the worst in Dublin. My favourite situation so far happened in a side alley of Temple Bar at night when a junkie tried to rob me, threatening me with a dirty syringe. I had my telescopic steel security baton with me and he quickly realised he'd end up in hospital or 6 feet under if he tried that shite with me. He fecked off somewhere else real quick like the devil himself was chasing him.

I'm also a cane user and that works as a brilliant self-defence weapon because it comes with plausible deniability. People also expect me to be an easy mark, but adrenaline is a hell of a drug!