Hello

its not allowed - there was a recent incident of a police mans daughter carrying it in the street and she threatened people with it when there was an accident between her car and another driver. Some one caught it on film and now it is being investigated by the authorities- I will post a link but the language in it is very offensive- its on you tube though.

Perfume/spray and a hair pin is about the best options that Ive ever seen but I would be careful ever to use them in case the man turns nasty and the pin came back on me.

Its best to scream your loudest and hardest and be ready to hit with a bag if something got out of hand. If its grabbing just try to avoid it at all costs and try to keep a distance from anything moving if you are in the street- for example guys can put hands out of car windows or even when they are riding a bike just to take a chance to grab. If I know that guys are coming to close to me in the street and i can see they are going to grab and I cant get past them - then i get my fists ready or move my hand up high so a least i can get to slap the face or the back of the head while he is attemping a grab but often the guys that do it are a lot quicker than us females because they had practise at doing it. There are some courses that you could do, I wish I personally had the time to do them. Good luck

here is one article about it- http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2008/08/bec...

it includes the video and im sorry to post it as the lanuage is bad but the article is in english so it is useful