Re: mace
Mace is bad. I accidentally maced myself by spraying it up in the air directly above my face while laying on a bed (hey, I was 15) and it fucking hurts. It gets everywhere, eyes, mouth, nose. the mouth isn't so bad, personally I think the nose was the worst. My mouth and eyes burned but my nose felt like it had liquified and was melting into blood and pus down my throat. Awful.
Re: cops & mace
Once I was in a car that had been pulled over for reckless driving. The cops found weed on the driver and so asked me if he could search my bag. I said sure and started emptying it out for him when he saw the mace on my keys. He said "You know it's illegal for you to have this..?" and I said "Yeah, I know, my sister got it for me in Chinatown after I was raped a few years ago." (true) He then gave me tips on how to use the illegal mace to instill the most pain on a future attacker.
(I'm spending today catching up so I may resurrect more old threads.)