Bear spray stains on the walls at home helped identify woman as Capitol attack suspect
Perhaps it was the video that Lehigh County resident Kelly McFadden O’Brien livestreamed from the Capitol steps that sealed federal prosecutors’ decision to charge her with participating in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.“We’re under the Joe fake Biden inaugural steps that he was supposed to be the fake president in,” she said, broadcasting amid the mob. Or maybe it was the string of Facebook posts with selfies she took shortly after. “I am in the front line,” she wrote, adding later: “We’re at the front door.” Later still, she posted: “I’m out. I’m safe. Someone may have trashed a certain speaker of the house’s office. But I will never tell who.”
Dozens of other posts and communications detailed in court filings chart her boasts of her “well-stocked” family armory, her admiration for militant right-wing extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and the Three Percenters, and her roller-coaster, postelection emotional journey. In a Nov. 21 post “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. PATRIOTS UNTIED [sic]”
And if none of that sealed the deal, perhaps it was the orange stains agents found on her walls when they showed up at her Schnecksville home with a search warrant nearly three months later — remnants, her husband told them, from a can of bear or pepper spray that O’Brien took with her to Washington.
It had exploded in her powder room after she returned home.
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they're scarier than the tied ones.
Don't leave bear spray in the car and use a container to keep it in when not accompanying you on a hike. If it blows in your car, it's totaled, period. You cannot get that stuff out of the upholstery. The USFS had to mandate that all bear spray had to be stored in specific containers when being transported because they had lost a good portion of the fleet from bear spray blowing up in their vehicles.
I keep mine in such a container in my house. If the seal goes, I can walk it out to the dumpster and toss the whole thing, no muss no fuss, or the recycle place where they can separate it if need be.
The containers can be made at home. You just need a plastic, gallon-sized jar with a wide opening and a good sealing lid. Line the jug with some rather dense foam padding that allows for the can of spray to be inserted in the center, upside down and some padding under the lid. Or you can buy one from the bear spray maker.
Bear spray itself is pretty stable, it's the seal on the can that can fail. Look at the exp date on each can and decide whether it's still good. That capsaicin burns the seal after a time so consider that.
Best way to dispose of it is find an outfitter store or sporting goods place and see if they have a collection program or you can go out and practice your defense skills in a pretend bear attack until the can is empty then dispose of the can like you would some other chemical of concern.
Guess I should have. I just read your post to my husband who has a can of bear spray in his vehicle right now. 
I just went on a search and found three. I put them in a cat litter tub in the garage, and I'll check out which storage method I think will work best for me.
Translucent plastic so you can see whether the seal has blown. The spray itself is orange or red so if you see that on the inside through the plastic, you know it's a flinger, it's contained in the foam and that's all there is to it.
I didn't really need to have that bear spray in my car right now anyway, but I kind of like having it handy for my house. There have been a few times when I slept with it on my bedside table because of some creepy things that happened.
It'd be nice to have a case that would fit in the backpack I put in my car when I go to the mountains. It's sort of my prepper backpack. I operate on the "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" mindset. My son laughs at me, but I know he never goes anywhere without at least one firearm in his vehicle, and he also does bodybuilding, so he's a lot better prepared to take care of himself than I am.
So, my next concern is about pepper spray. I have some that look like a tube of lipstick, and I like to have one with me when I go for a walk. I guess I better put that in some sort of case too. I also have some stun guns.
I might be over-prepared. 
It doesn't matter because the feds have everything she posted. This is the 55th person from Pennsylvania to be arrested and charged in the January 6th insurrection. Thank you Facebook for making this possible!
