Worst. Experience. Of. My. Life.

Military grade (stronger than what US police use) OC spray sprayed across the eyebrows, (which then drains down across your whole face. Interestingly enough, my eyes are in more pain now (nearly an hour later) then when I first got sprayed. At first it felt like the worst sunburn ever. like literally the sunburn from HELL. That lasted about a half an hour (and hurt all over my face and ears, as well as on my arms (it drained down my shoulders onto my forearms). (The experience was made worse by the fact that it's like 90 degrees outside.) Now it feels like having soap in your eyes, only about 10 times more intense.

Anyway, immediately after being sprayed we were run through a mock combat course where we had to take people down using MACH (Mechanical Advantage Control Holds) techniques, then perform some basic strikes (strong side and weak side strikes), then block attacks using batons, then push off two attackers using a baton, then break someone's grip on the baton and take them down using it. Naturally, our "opponents" didn't go easy on us.

The course probably took about 5 minutes, but it felt like 20. Then we got to wash our faces with soap and water.

Anyway, it was quite the experience. A bunch of pictures were taken. I'll try and get access to them and put them up here asap, so you all can witness my agony.

Do it again.

Ouch. My best mate and brother in law are policemenofficers and have had to go through similar things with CS gas. Maybe it's different stuff, but they both said that water reactivates it, so washing it off is a no-no

I've seen videos of people doing a course like that after a spray. Not something I'd want to do

The only people that have you beat on that are the idiots that distill capsaicin and expose themselves in the process.

turns out I should have a yourtube video of the event after tomorrow.

And yeah my eyes are still hurting a little, and are quite tender.

oh and Martyn, I've been tear gas'd before too. It wasn't nearly as bad. (the effects didn't last as long either)

Hahaha! CS is a hell of a lot better than OC. In my experience they both do the job of blinding and choking you(CS does the latter better), but CS produces a lot more mucus while the OC burns like hell. CS isn't really that painful, just debilitating. And water does reactivate OC too, but you have to wash it out. And next time you take a shower? You get to relive the whole experience!

OC sucks. I would take a Taser again, any day.

I actually didn't have a whole lot of trouble when I showered. I did wash my face twice before hand. and there was a little bit of burning in my eyes from it, then when I showered, I wore my underwear (apparently, it can run down your body and get on your junk) until I was satisfied the top half of my body was free of OC. Then I finished my shower normally.