Well, that's that, I guess. I'll get an expandable baton as a side-arm for when I run out of pepper spray.
I'll be watching this, just in case someone else has a brilliant solution that was not listed, so far.
-airsoft weapons.
I am a rather hard-core airsofter myself, and as such, I know them well.
They are legal but only during airsoft games, and on airsoft "grounds".
As a hilarious turn of events, shooting someone with an airsoft pistol on the street, can get you into a heap more trouble than shooting the same person with a self-defence pistol. Since the airsoft pistol is specifically not a self-defence weapon.
Thanks for your answers.
A little bit of trivia now, optional reading.
A few years ago we started a massive campaign to clean the streets and get rid of the dogs. Before we could even do anything the enviro-crazies (elves, it's always the elves) at the Vier Pfoten Foundation (german: "four paws") chained themselves to fences and got into other environmental insane protests.
Pretty soon we have switched from "kill the dogs" to "sterilize and release".
People grumbled that sterilizing the dogs won't do shit, since well... we're not in danger of being fucked by the dogs. Our problem is slightly different.
Anyways, we started seeing dogs with those "marking" earrings get back to the streets. Pretty soon we noticed that the so-called sterilized dogs started a dogsplosion.
Obviously, the med and vet students in charge of sterilizing the dogs did exactly what a good Romanian will always do: anything but their jobs.
And thus, we have tons of fertile dogs, with pretty earrings, running around the streets, eating people and children.
Our proud fort's nobles won't do shit about this. You see, apparently killing dogs is greatly displeasing Mother Europe. And since we're so desperate to be part of Mother Europe, we don't dare do anything that may fluster her.
-If I were to poison my retarded old neighbor that keeps feeding the beasts, I'll probably get a slap on my wrist, and get out on probation after just a tad of same-sex relations in prison.
-If I were to poison all the dogs in my neighborhood, I will quickly ascend to the title of Madman, I will be portrayed as a menace to society, I will be the subject to a special news bulletin that will last an hour, psychologists will be invited to discuss my behavior, and all this will be turned into a "SEE? WE SAVE COUNTRY! WE GOOD! VOTE FOR US!" case while I'll rot in the dungeons.
These are not hypothetical scenarios. They have more or less happened before.
*shrug*
That's how the media behaves, that's how the *snorts and giggles* "LAW ENFORCEMENT" works around here.
That's how we roll.
*cue in rap music*
Oh yeah, before someone asks:
I'm a dog person. I have a dog, and a cat. I have nothing against dogs. But, by all means, if you love dogs, get them in your own apartment, keep them in your own backyard. This "sort-of feeding, sort-of caring" hordes of stray dogs that you old farts are doing, is simply retarded. And dangerous.