Expandable Batons

[Jumping Frog]

I beilieve that I did answer your question with my previous post. By the letter of the law you are legal to carry a batton due to PC46.15. Now the question of "should you" is up to you. Personally I prefer a wooden walking stick for my own reasons, one is that I enjoy making them.

There are times I have carried a cane not because I need a cane to walk, but as a defensive weapon that won't get me arrested.

My cane has a handle that still lets me spin it, it very stout, and gives me longer reach than a baton. I've even carried it on plane trips without the TSA raising an eyebrow and with me in places like Chicago where I cannot be legally armed.

My handle is similar to this:

[Abraham]

If you try swinging a baton at a dog while cycling - good luck!

The chance of losing your balance is very high.

One hand on the handle bar and the other swinging a baton is a recipe for disaster. The spill you'll probably take and it result may be worse than the dog attack...

Kicking at a dog while cycling- same thing.

Ask me how I know...

Since my last post on this thread, I was attacked twice by multiple dogs while cycling. Both times I let em all have it with spray - both groups turned.

[Abraham]

I neglected to add: It's the uncaring owners fault for letting their dogs attack people.

They seem to have the attitude that it's the pedestrian or cyclists fault for being attacked by their dogs as these folks should simply walk or cycle elsewhere...

While out cycling about a year ago and immediately after spraying some attacking dogs, a guy driving a pickup pulled up next to me with his passenger side window down angrily shouted at me for protecting myself.

He belligerently demanded I come to "his neighborhood and spray his dogs and see what'd happen to me"....

I actually felt a combination of astonishment at his anger and pity for his low I.Q.

Presumably, if I let the dogs knock me off the bike and rip some flesh off me I'd be A-O.K. in his book...

BTW, one of the attacking dogs was a pit bull and the other a large mixed breed.