Having worked in law enforcement, pepper spray is misery. Everyone in the area gets some exposure, it burns for like 45 minutes at least, it clings to skin and

Having worked in law enforcement, pepper spray is misery. Everyone in the area gets some exposure, it burns for like 45 minutes at least, it clings to skin and hair and clothes (and police car seats) and you don't realize it until your eyes are burning again the next day because you scratched a crevise of your ear and then later rubbed your eye. Forget wearing contacts for a day or two. If you get maced (Other irritants gasses besides the pepper spray) all of your mucus membrane decide the drain all fluids possible and you're coughing up a storm. Really, just hope you get tazed instead. Hurts a little more but it's over so much quicker. Or, if possible, avoid physical confrontations with the police.