I am an International Studies student in Connecticut.
I left home for school in 2009.
I know the move from Danbury to Hartford isn't much but it was my first time to live away from my family.
Honestly, I never thought about self defense in my life, much less getting a personal safety alarm.
It just never came up.
My first year in college changed all that.
There was too much going on and around campus.
Hockey season and rugby and even NASCAR, and all the college stuff I won't bother to mention anymore.
I was coming home from a hockey game late one night, past midnight, and there was a point where I had to walk three blocks to where my roommate waited for me with her friend who had the car and would take us home.
Walk all by myself, that is.
A car full of guys drove past me and then slowed down when they saw me and started to call and get me to go with them.
I had a personal safety alarm with me, the Mace Screecher aerosol personal alarm.
I think they also came from the game and they sounded drunk.
The calls started funny but got nastier and offensive.
I walked faster but I could see us approaching a street that was not lighted.
I did not hesitate for a moment and switched on my personal safety alarm.
I know when I bought this Mace Screecher personal alarm, the box said compressed aerosol makes it emit an earsplitting sound that can be heard a 1/4 mile away.
That just went through my head but I was completely surprised by how loud it turned out being.
One SCREECH from the Mace Screecher personal alarm and those guys drove away.
It sounds exaggerated but this super loud personal safety alarm scared danger away that night.