Self-Defense Devices for Velociraptors from Jurassic Park

[GuyWithQuestions]

I was wondering what would be some good, yet practical, self-defense devices or strategies to use against velociraptors if you happened to be in Jurassic Park? The strategy or device would have to be something you could carry on you at all times. Remember in Jurassic Park III? Those guys tested out their weaponry on blowing things up beforehand, only to find that they were useless when they went to the Island because they couldn't run around with them.

I don't know if the tear gas from Jurassic Park III would work, many say that tear gas doesn't work on animals like dogs while pepper spray does. At first I was thinking maybe bear pepper spray, since it has been found quite effective against tigers and grizzly bears. However, some say that dinosaurs may be related to birds, and I've heard from several places that birds aren't affected by capsaicin. Plants that make capsaicin, the genus Capsicum, try to repel mammals, while using birds to spread their seeds. Would certain handguns be effective? Could you carry certain rifles on your person at all times? Would you be able to hit a fast moving raptor that ambushes you out of the bushes? Would there be other devices or strategies to use?

 

[Ron James]

You've way too much time on your hands.

 

[Mannlicher]

I tought we were not going to do these totally meaningless threads anymore.

 

[Cosmoline]

I'll pipe in and say these threads are NOT totally meaningless. They get you think outside the box, like the many hypos we ran through in law school on fact patterns that would never happen in a million years. Such as the fellow who jumps out a window and is shot en route. Or theorizing outrageous scenarios as part of practice for commanding troops on the battlefield.

 

[Cosmoline]

First off you have to remember that the director is notorious for using cheap tricks to avoid having any of the dinosaurs shot. He does it in movie after movie. So we can discard his vision of dino hunts out of hand. The best analogy to a velociraptor would be a huge predatory ostrich. Which sounds lame unless you've had to deal with one. They've violent, mean and can be lethal. Assuming the velociraptors were smarter and more lethal, being predators, they would be hunted like predators. You use their strengths against them. If the VR's are pack hunters, you set traps and target the alpha, then rely on pack loyalty to draw the rest of the pack in. If they're not that bright, you set bait and wait over it. All predators of all types (except us and possibly chimps) have their tracks and they run on them. White sharks target fatty marine mammals. Tiger sharks target sea turtle and other migration patterns. Wolves target weak caribou. Bears target salmon migrations. Etc etc They know what they want. A velociraptor is not going to have the brains to decide against a nice juicy cow and opt for some hunter. That requires an enormous amount of grey matter, more than even wolves have. But if they somehow did decide to target humans--perhaps because there's nothing else to eat--the best approach would be to wait in an open area, attact them by seeming to be hurt and shoot them as they come. As with almost everything else, a high powered rifle would be the best choice for arms.

 

[GuyWithQuestions]

Just a thought experiment to develop strategies and tactics thinking

I just thought of this thread as a thought experiment. Strategies & Tactics is supposed to be how to use strategies and tactics, and doesn't have to be completely restricted to guns, as long as it's related to self-defense. I've seen quite a few way out there scenerios of things unlikely to happen posted in Strategies & Tactics, such as you're in this type of situation at the bank or store and how do I do this in that situation. A lot of these are scenarios that most likely wouldn't happen if someone actually did rob one of these places. I was watching Jurassic Park the other day and thought just like it's fiction on the subject of actual science, maybe a thought experiment with actual principles and devices could be used in a science fiction setting. It can be used to develop strategies and tactics thinking.

 

[BullfrogKen]

GuyWithQuestions said: Strategies & Tactics is supposed to be how to use strategies and tactics, and doesn't have to be completely restricted to guns, as long as it's related to self-defense.

That's all true. But we also bound the subforum with the additional constraint that discussions have their basis in reality.

Since this isn't . . . its closed.