| Comment | Not police or a lawyer but this was told to me by police officers I know.
It would depend on if you admitted to that being the reason you were carrying it. Anything can be used as a weapon (improvised weapon if its original use is not as a weapon) but similarly anything can be used for defence. There is a difference between using the closest thing you grab for defence, and carrying something like deodorant/hairspray around with the intent to spray someone in the eyes.
You can't really plan to defend yourself as you don't know when you're going to be attacked, but if you went and intentionally aggravated someone into starting a fight with you so you could use the hairspray as a defense weapon... Well, I'm not 100% sure of the legality but you'd definitely be a dick.
(no but for real, I'm not a lawyer, but it'd be difficult to prosecute you for assault by hairspray if the scenario was clear enough that it's in self défense) |
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