Ever used your PW as a weapon?

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I haven't, but I was prepared to! We were doing an oil clean up for a waste removal company in South East, DC. If you don't know South East, think of East St. Louis, or South Central in Los Angeles, you get the point, it is a bad bad area. Well, we were down an alley behind a clothing store, which just happened to be the short cut to the liquor store (did I mention it was a Friday afternoon). We had cones set up that didn't block access to the liquor store, but you had to drive maybe 50 yards out of the way. Well these people would come flying around and start running over our cones, coming within inches of our machines and us, honking and screaming at us. Well, I walked back to the Van, picked up two red tips, handed one to my partner and said "If they get out of their car, put the red tip on.....if they come at you, cut 'em in half".

Fortunately it never got there, but.........
 
Marc you should have stenciled something on them!:eek:
 
I've never used the PWer as a weapon, but...

I know a guy who had to.

He was washing the outside of a methadone clinic (a place where herion addicts get methadone to start weaning themselves) that had just closed its doors. The state support was withdrawn, for various reasons, and the building owner needed to clean the place quickly, to be able to rent it out. He wanted to distance his building from its past.

Well, the problem in the area was never the addicts getting treatment, it was the vultures that were always hovering to take advantage of them. Dealers, pimps, short-con guys, strong-arm robbers, and small-time shylocks; you know, the local pillars of society.

Anyway, these enterprising folks were suddenly bereft of their best revenue stream, and in the absence of low-hanging fruit, were looking for new opportunities.

My friend was washing the filthy entrance walkway, when some shabby-looking young citizen in ill-fitting sports clothing walks up and says something.

"What?" queries my pal.

Same mumbled response. No eye contact, just some indecipherable gestures.

My pal closes his ball-valve, and switches to a wand while saying, "What do you want?"

Our fine citizen says, louder this time, "Break yo'self!" Local patois for, "I'm a little short of cash right now, and I feel as if you should contribute some funds toward my recovery. I am willing to employ force to achieve the goal of separating you from your money and valuables in order so sustain my current lifestyle."

My pal gave him something instead of money: a drenching of water, heated to around 180*, at a rate appoaching 8GPM, from a smashed hosebarb as a shootertip.

Apparently the youth in question had planned to purchase a warm shower with whatever money he acquired that day, because, having received a free shower, he departed the area, and was never seen on that job again. Or perhaps he had a religious conversion due to his baptism, as he did seem to be exclaiming some religious language, of a sort, as he hurredly departed, no doubt bent on witnessing to the local masses. I couldn't say for sure, as I wasn't present myself, this being a friend's experience, not my own. I will only say for sure that we all know what cleanliness is next to.

I'm sure it felt good to give back to the community.;)
 
Scott and Marc, those are great stories, thanks for posting those. I've kept my red tip around, probably for that reason alone. I usually rely on my primary weapon (glock), but if I couldn't get to it for some reason, I believe 200 degrees hot water with a 0 degree tip would rectify the situation. Hopefully, I'll never find out.
 
I have used mine as a weapon LOL. I was cleaning dump trucks in a construction yard at about 10:30pm when a guy came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder, and around goes the wand, hit him in the head. Come to find out it was one of the guys who worked in the shop at the yard, he was coming to tell me that he was going to dummy lock the gate so I can get out when i was done. All was good, he appolagized for scaring the sh.. out of me.
 
I have had to warn a couple of people to back away and go about their business and they got the point as the steam that was coming from the end was not as nice as I was ;) You get it all out there at night and these were guys sleeping under the stairs in a garage I was cleaning and by myself with no one around but they figured they better go sleep else where for the night and left me alone.
 
Never had the need to use it. Just wanted to. I want to guy holes in the box and drive down the road while someone sits back there a 0 tips people that are walking.
 
Jonathan Ellis said:
Never had the need to use it. Just wanted to. I want to guy holes in the box and drive down the road while someone sits back there a 0 tips people that are walking.
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...and put it on YouTube...huh?
 
Lol I guess I was being selfish by not wanting to share the exciting times with the rest of the world. I have attornies but would need more after something like this.
 
I was pressure washing at a dealership one time and had a glass guy get pissed off about me getting his car wet. He went and got a small knife looking thing...lets see 4000psi at 8gpm at the end of a 2 ft wand verses a 3 inch knife lucky for him he decided to go back to what he was doing. I remind my guys every now and then that if need be 4000psi will cut skin like butter. I had a friend that was washing her car at a car was when her 8 year old son ran infront of the wand...it peeled about 5 inches of skin on his face like a bannana...and the car washes only use 1500-2000psi.
 
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