Can I carry/use pepper spray in Italy?
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Can I carry/use pepper spray in Italy?
I carry it when I bike ride. I just thought I'd really like to give a dose to any potential pickpocket while in Italy in a few weeks.
Is it legal?
Is it legal?
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I have yet to hear of anyone pickpocketed in Italy who would have had the opportunity to know it was happening in enough time to pull out the pepper spray and use it. Rarely if ever is anyone aware they are being pickpocketed until it is done.
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Pepper spray is allowed in checked luggage. However I don't see how it would be the least bit useful against pickpockets. They don't announce their intentions. A pickpocket would be through your wallet and spent the money before you knew anything was missing.
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What if I tell you there is no problem bringing pepper spray to Italy and it is not? Are you going to tell them -"somebody at Fodor's told me it was fine"..... My pont is you need to ask the people who enforce this type of things; the airline for carry-over and a proper agent in Italy.
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I think this would cause more problems than it would solve. If you were to spray a person you suspected of trying to pickpocket, then unless you waited until they had your wallet in their hand, in front of witnesses, then it would be your word against theirs.
During my trips to Italy, two of the three attempts to pickpocket were made by children. I would expect some outcry were a tourist to use pepper spray in such circumstances.
During my trips to Italy, two of the three attempts to pickpocket were made by children. I would expect some outcry were a tourist to use pepper spray in such circumstances.
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Does anybody here seriously believe that using pepper spray againt any pickpocket would be covered as self defense? It's "excessive violence" and "attacking with a dangerous weapon".
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Pepper spray would only be usable for self defense - not suspicion of wallet defense. Or I don;t like the way that guy is looking at me defense.
Unless you expect to be set upon by groups of bandits I can;t imagine you would be able to use it.
Unless you expect to be set upon by groups of bandits I can;t imagine you would be able to use it.