After a night of bowling and drinking Feb. 2, Monique Prez, her boyfriend, and a few others headed to the Baltic Room for some after hours dancing. When they got to the club, she says, her significant other was having a little trouble walking. After using the facilities, they were asked to leave. Prez adds that the security inside the club was nice about it and she and her entourage were happy to comply. But once they got outside, she says, things got quickly out of hand. According to Prez, her small band of revelers was standing on the sidewalk when one of the security guards outside the club “just pepper sprayed us right on the sidewalk.” Police were eventually called to the scene. Prez says she and her friends had stinging eyes and almost no medical attention, though fire department responders poured water on their faces. The water didn’t help, she says.The police report includes the security officers’ version of events: the boyfriend was attempting to start fights and went into the women’s restroom before making his way to the men’s. Once outside, they told police, he broke away from his female companions and “began moving towards security.” Fearing for their safety, pepper spray was deployed–at whom exactly, but one assumes the boyfriend was the primary target and Prez and her other girlfriends were collateral damage.No charges were filed and representatives of the Baltic Room didn’t respond to a request for comment. But the Seattle Municipal Code allows anyone over the age of 18 to carry pepper spray and apparently local nightlife security is ready to use it. Consider yourself warned.