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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pasquarello said the chemical used was probably Mace...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Armored Car Robbed Outside Cambridge Mall | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...roommate always blasts that frickin' "I saw the sign" song by frickin' Ace of Face, or Ace of Mace or whatever the group is. I hate it. What should I do? May I please destroy her CD player? Sick of Sucky Song in Stoughtom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's the Sign? | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...Dick's Sporting Goods in Moberly, Missouri, store owner Dick Boots sometimes turns them down. "Occasionally," Boots says, "there will be a little old lady who is scared and comes in looking for a gun for protection. Generally, I'll suggest a spray can of pepper Mace rather than a firearm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in Arms | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...been able to walk into a pawnshop and buy a handgun as easily as I did, I wouldn't have robbed that bank. That applies to just about everybody in this prison who ever held up anybody. Nobody robs a place with a knife or a can of Mace. I was 19, an eighth-grade dropout. If I'd known that things weren't as helpless as I thought they were, that would have stopped me. I wouldn't have felt so frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilbert Rideau, A Convict's View: People Don't Want Solutions | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Across the U.S., companies that offer security devices report booming sales in both low-tech paraphernalia (Mace, burglar bars, door alarms) and high-tech apparatus (video doorbells, motion-detection devices). Meanwhile, existing forms of high technology are being pressed into the services of security. Cellular phones are popular not only with businessmen but also with people who fear being stranded because of auto trouble or attacked while on the road. As their cost goes down, many are buying them for emergency use only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger in the Safety Zone | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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