Tasers and Mace are two items that you might never think would be on the Bakersfield College campus, but they are.

Simon Diaz runs Pro-Tech Security Products, a company that sells citizen protection devices such as pepper spray, stun guns, tasers and Mace. He was on campus approaching students about the devices March 3.

“I was just showing the products to potential customers,” Diaz said. “Girls are being approached by strange men.”

“This is the first I’ve heard about this guy,” said Carla Reyes, administrative secretary in Student Activities who handles the vendor traffic on campus.

BC has a long laundry list of things you would have to do to become a vendor on campus. It includes a vendor contract, a vendor permit, insurance pliable up to a $1 million, proof of this insurance and a fee of $50 per day that the vendor is on campus.

On March 3, a woman on campus was approached by a man who showed her a taser out of a Starbucks bag.

The man gave the woman a card advertising pepper spray, tasers, stun guns and other products for personal security.

The card listed the name Simon Diaz with a phone number and Web site.

“I just started the business over night,” said Diaz, who was reached by The Rip after he had approached the woman on campus.

Diaz stated that he doesn’t usually carry any of his products on campus.

According to BC Public Safety, it’s OK to carry Mace on campus but not to sell it. Tasers are not allowed on campus.

“We had no knowledge of him,” said Sgt. Chris Counts of Public Safety.