Once again, it's software, not hardware

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Anything can be a weapon. While an ice scraper is not what most of us would choose to defend ourselves with, it's what this man had when the attack came:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96VVG1G1&show_article=1
Man, 71, fends off young robber with ice scraper
Mar 17 02:20 PM US/Eastern

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Police said a 71-year-old man, armed only with an ice scraper, frustrated a 20-year-old would-be robber who approached him with a knife. Police said the man was scraping ice off his car Friday when the 20-year-old pulled out a knife and demanded money.

Police Sgt. Pete Ragnone said the man used his ice scraper to fend off the attacker—who then ran to his girlfriend's home nearby.

That's when a fight broke out between the 20-year-old and his girlfriend.

The would-be attacker surrendered to police and faces charges of attempted first-degree robbery and aggravated assault-domestic violence.
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Hurray for old guys!!!
Hurray for improvised weaponry!
It's nice to see the system working well.
Thanks for the post and the link, Jeff.
 
I can see why the fight between the attacker and his GF.

"What? I sent you out there with one of my best kitchen knives, and you let a little old man with an ice scraper stand you off? Give me that, you... <thud> you... <whack, whack> ...I'll give you something to cry about, all right... <smack>"

Seriously, Jeff, thanks for posting that. And good work, old timer.

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For some reason I thought an ice scraper was like an ice pick, but then I looked it up... :D
 
One of those longer scraper/brush combos could give you some good standoff. Long or short I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of an ice scraper- that could do some serious damage swung or stabbed.

Good job old dude.
 
One of those longer scraper/brush combos could give you some good standoff. Long or short I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of an ice scraper- that could do some serious damage swung or stabbed.
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Tell me about it...

About 20 years ago I was commenting to my then-GF about a brush with a scraper on the end. I said, "You know, this thing is almost a weapon" and give it a "Zorro" swing to show what I meant.

Unfortunately, she didn't quite understand me and leaned in just as I swung. I got her right in the chin and cut her lip open. And I was just "air swinging" and not even that hard.

Yeah, she was mad, and I don't blame her. Her lip healed and she forgave me eventually (I think?)

I've always been *much* more careful with ice scrapers and just horseplay in general since then.

(The whole, "You could put your eye out" thing really hit home after that)
 
How can that be, he didn't have a gun, no way he could have defended himself.

its not the tool, its the user.
 
After spending 45 years in Canada, 6 months of cooool weather, my two foot long ice scraper, with a 1/4" thick, 4" wide end, sharp cornered tool, that was always handy.

I think the twenty year old would have had some serious stitching required.

I still have one on the shelf (ice in Orlando?) it is staying in Florida, like my Wife and I.

Aside, some one sent me a funny email, man doing a great job of clearing a nice new car of all snow, and ice! When he pressed his remote? The car behind the one he had just cleaned, went beep!

You had to have lived in that climate to have found that hilarious.
 
JImbothefiveth: "I didn't realize there actually was a tactical ice scraper ..."

The Choate device is ubiquitous at gun shows.
 
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