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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 8. 27 April 1972
Some Resistance Methods
Some Resistance Methods
The following methods require some agility, dexterity, coolness and determination. How you acquire and apply these qualities is up to you and your friends and the circumstances. These methods are only suggestions tried and proven (mostly in other countries with police-dog problems), that you may find useful. Their application and variations are up to you.
| 1. | Don't tease dogs or provoke their handlers. Some hoons have managed to bark (yes bark!) at dogs, irritating both dogs and handlers. Let sleeping dogs lie. Abusing cops may alienate those having doubts about the system they represent. |
| 2. | Don't go looking for trouble. Of course if there is violence it should be only defensive on our part. If you want to start the great NZ guerilla insurrection go away and do it somewhere else. Keep peaceful demo's peaceful. |
| 3. | Aggressive and trained bull-terriers are reputed to be the most vexatious to police Alsatians. A bitch on heat, and her piss is reputed to distract police dogs. Wolf shit is reputed to terrify dogs —this method is said to have been successfully used by the Provos in Holland. |
| 4. | We could breed our own guard dogs. Imagine a Dobermann-Alsatian-St Bernard cross, with perhaps a bit of Irish Wolfhound. |
| 5. | A dog may be kept at bay with handfuls of finely-ground pepper thrown into its face, and by the liberal application, it is said, of caustic oven-cleaner. Also aerosol sprays of paint, perfumes, hair-fixer, etc. These are usually highly volatile so when followed immediately by a blast from a long-flame butane lighter create a spectacular effect. Flaming torches and moderately diluted ammonia fired from water-pistols are old tricks. Aim for the dog's eyes and hose. |
| 6. | A dog can be thrown by seizing his collar and dragging him off his feet. Watch those jaws. If you can jam a paw or two through the collar you'll immobilise the animal and render it meek, maybe. Also pressure on a dogs paws will cause it some distress and may deter its attack. |
| 7. | Dogs may be fended off and killed with a vast assortment of implements from the traditional [unclear: proletaiian] and peasant armoury; common or garden forks, spades, slashers, machetes, pick axe handles etc. In fact just about anything that will cut or stab, chop or club, even writing implements — a biro may be mightier than a bayonett. |
| 8. | Vulnerable places to heavily strike an attacking dog are on the bridge of its nose and in the eyes. A heavy kick in the ribs may cause a condition like that caused by jumping on a bamboo birdcage. A spade or trenching tool with sharp edges may cause gruesome injury, as hand-to-hand combatants in WW1 and WW2 know. |
| 9. | A dog may be strangled by using its chain. |
| 10. | A short strong stick or steel rod pushed through between the collar and neck, and twisted like a tourniquet, will strangle the poor animal. |
| 11. | Pull both front legs suddenly and violently apart, away from the normal position, in a wide arc so as to bring them together above the dog's back. This is reputed to cause massive chest injuries and may cause the dog in its last fleeting seconds to reflect upon the fatal infortuitousness of its career in the Police Force. |
| 12. | Tranquillizer darts fired by bow, blowpipe or cartridge have been suggested. |
| 13. | No mention is made of using firearms in defence against mad dogs. At present such implements and methods are dangerously escalative and unnecessary. However this ommission may be rectified if future events should make some information on these matters unavoidable. |
Some of these' methods of defence' are of course ill-advised if you wish to stay clear of a charge of possessing an 'offensive weapon'. On the other hand, if you happen to be a professional boxer, or a karate-ka, you could be arrested for the same thing.