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DIY Self-Defense is Teens' Goal

DIY Self-Defense is Teens' Goal

- The Oregonian
On a warm Saturday afternoon, 14-year-old Dallas Jessup administers a knee strike, an eye jab and an ear pull to an attacker at a bus stop. Her best friend, Catherine Wehage, 15, dispatches a hair comb, an eye jab and a painful groin slap against an attacker in the woods.
It is necessary roughness: This is first day of shooting for "Just Yell Fire," a self-defense DVD project the two St. Mary's Academy High School sophomores co-wrote that centers on a "Bill of Rights" for teenage...