Why I carry pepper spray and an alarm around even here where I live now:

A few weeks ago I was coming back from my evening walk in the lake park near me that I do a lot, and as I was going by this main street, I see this (late 30s-ish) (very dark) (very agitated) (black) guy walking rapidly up the street and then doubling back like fifteen feet, and then turning around and heading up the street again in the way that he had been going, and then a car passes by him and he like lunges out at it like he's going to smack its side or its hood or something, then he goes back to the sidewalk and charges up the sidewalk up the main drag and out of sight while I watch, as I had been considering heading the other direction, if he started to come my way.