Shed Some Light or Draw Attention?

I was checking out all of the new personal alarms that are available online. This is a daunting task, with 100’s of thousands of pages calling out to my eyes to read their headlines, and calling me to look at their products. I only spent about 30 – 45 minutes checking out sites and looking for the newest and best alarms.

I can’t say for sure – I’m like a kid in a candy shop when I’m messing around with these gadgets – which ones are the best, as there are so many worthy candidates. Rather than make a recommendation as to “this alarm”, or “that alarm” being the best choice, I’ll just acquaint you with the newer ones I’ve found. Ha, ha, not in this post though, I might have to devote a lot more pages to do an adequate comparison of the “best of the best”.

I’ve found the newest ones are light, small, and usually have more than one feature. It amazes me that electronics manufacturers can put so much, in such small packages. They are extremely loud and will definitely draw attention in a crisis situation. The price tag on these personal security alarms are so stunningly low, that it amazes me, how any man with a wife or daughter would not equip them with one of these wonderful little devices. I found a newcomer in the market called a Personal Alarm Flashlight. This one is a dual function, personal security device, sporting an ear splitting 130 dB alarm with a built in flashlight. At 3.5″ x 2.5″ x 0.5″, we’re looking at a very small and sleek model that can be easily carried in a coat pocket. The flashlight feature is ideal for seeing hard to spot keyholes, or checking out a sounds coming from behind a car, or other spots that might conceal hidden danger. If needed, the high pitched alarm is activated by simply pulling the wrist lanyard, which disengages a pin in the unit and sounds the alarm!

Other uses may be for medical workers who “make their rounds” alone in areas where help could be needed at any moment. If caught in a disaster situation, one could use it to draw attention to their location. Or, lost in the woods while camping or hiking – the flashlight could save you from falling and injuring yourself. For instance, let’s say you’ve broken your ankle while out hiking in the woods and you’re anchored in one spot – if you hear rescuers calling out in an attempt to locate you, simply activate the alarm in controlled bursts. This little item will rip through the darkness, and silence of the outdoor night, and serve as a homing beacon to alert rescuers – and it sure beats screaming at the top of your lungs all night long.

For the reasons listed, I’m going to give this little dynamo a “2 thumbs up”!

Inventor of Rape Device Ready to Launch Product

I thought I’d posted this, but after an exhaustive “search” of this weblog, I must have put it on the back burner. Well, it appears as though a medical worker in South Africa has invented a “weenie trap” – with TEETH – for women to wear in their vaginas, poised and ready to close the razor sharp teeth down on any penis that should inadvertently poke it’s head inside for a quick hello!

This medical worker came up with her “vaginal penis trap” after long thought and planning, brought on by a client who mentioned that she wished she had teeth in her vagina!! Two peas in a pod eh? She came up with some kind of bear trap for errant penises. If a penis accidentally gets lodged in the wrong vagina (one that is equipped with this monstrosity) it will promptly get chomped and only a surgeon can remove this horrible invention.

“The device is not yet in production but the inventor hopes it will eventually be sold alongside condoms in chemists.” I hope not, what a brutish device. God did not intend for the vagina to be a Venus Fly Trap for wee-wee’s. There are some good philosophical twists, and opposing views are cited as well, along with links to more info on “Rapex” – they’d have loved this one in the “Dark Ages”. Check out the whole story here!

Mace Pepper Gel

It has been confirmed by two ladies who have actually used this new self defense deterrent. Mace Pepper Gel is the ultimate self defense spray, and is priced for anyone’s budget. The standard size is a mere $16.50 and $25 for the “Magnum” model which holds about twice the amount. I spoke to two ladies recently who had purchased, and actually used this product to ward off hooligans who were trying to approach the car and wipe the window/get in and abduct them. These two gals are very feisty and a little bit too unafraid for their own good in my opinion.

It turns out that there is one particular intersection where the “crack heads, alcoholics, and junkies” frequent in small groups trying to do anything from wipe your windshield for a buck or hand you a flier. It seems that over the past year, the local “cracky heads” had gotten to know the two ladies and vice versa. They were becoming more demanding and flirtatious (if you can imagine a degenerate alcoholic flirting?), with the two young women on their way home from work every evening. They chose the pepper gel at my direction after they shared with me that one of the dopers had actually tried to reach in the car a few times to pat their shoulder, ending in a real “hoopla” when this moron actually tried to stick his leg inside the back window and get in the car!

The beauty of this OC pepper gel is that it shoots at a high velocity, and in one, solid, pinpoint stream as opposed to a spray or fogger model which can present a problem if the wind isn’t “right”, or if released into a restricted area, like a car or another type of small space. The gel gives off ZERO cross contamination, and sticks like glue to the offending face that gets in it’s way. The harder the attacker struggles to wipe his face off, the harder it is rubbed into the skin – making the effects even more painful and debilitating. Add to that, a UV marking dye and you have a pretty sore and easy to identify “perp”, if the police spot him.

Well, to wrap up, this very same guy was trying to wash their windshield recently, and upon completing his unsolicited service, demanded some cash than his usual $1 fee. The driver told him “here you go”, and handed him a buck. He felt he should get a few more bucks, which he was promptly denied, so he could take something home for his “babies” too. He began reaching right across the driver’s lap, and his hand stretched out to open (or snatch) her handbag. Having waited for this moment for so long, the passenger already had her pepper gel ready and gave him two blasts, flush in the mug!

She was so excited recounting it’s properties. “It covered the whole side of his head and looked like sticky glue had splattered his face!” I asked her if she got any on herself or her girlfriend, and she simply replied “nope”! I also asked if it worked on getting him away, and was told “that dude started screaming and cursing bad as he pulled himself out of the car.” “Then he started jumping, kind of up and down, and rubbed his face like crazy.” “He called us stupid &%$#*# and then ran like hell down the street, it was great!” Two young ladies and one thug. Thug ends up running down the street in pain. What’s wrong with this picture? I’d say – don’t put your body into the window of a stranger’s car. The “doper” would say it was the Mace gel, I’m pretty sure.

Tiger Attacks Two – Saved by Stun Gun

It hasn’t been quite a year since a nice sized Siberian tiger (that would be 350lb+ sized) put the “smack down” on a youth, and his own trainer, at a St. Augustine, FL county fair. It seems that the tiger was being walked by his owner/trainer back to his “truck” (gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “put a tiger in your tank”). Apparently the youth made a sudden move or somehow startled the big cat as he was en route, and the tiger promptly scooped up the boy and his trainer, pulled them down and began scratching and biting at them. The trainer, it was reported, had positioned himself between his frisky charge, and the youth in an attempt to help save the boy.

One onlooking Deputy Sheriff fired his stun gun into the big cat, who promptly broke the wires and renewed his attack on the two people he had brought down. I’m not here to give anyone a false sense of security in their stun guns, as the; “broke the wires” indicates that this was not a normal stun gun but an Air Taser, who’s proponents always seem to confuse with a stun gun. An Air Taser is not a stun gun, but “stun technology”. Shaped like oversized replicas of their beloved Glocks, cops sure like Air Tasers and are always lighting people (mostly) and tigers, up with them at any opportunity that’s offered. They shoot “fly by wire” darts into the bad guy, or animal, and then settle them down with soothing pulses of low AMP/high Voltage current. Problem here was that the tiger, broke the lead on one wire, but was immediatley hit with another volley from a fellow Deputy, with his Air Taser. The trainer sustained a couple of puncture wounds then drove back to Jacksonville and put his animals to bed, before going to a hospital. The boy, whose name was not released, had “a bump and a scratch”.

First of all, this tiger was clearly startled, as no animal can stand up to the initial charge and impact of a full grown tiger. Only the wild dog, in packs, can run down, and eventually kill a tiger. And that, after sustaining staggering losses of their own numbers. An elephant will depart in a confrontation with a tiger (these are documented), and only a “herd” of the semi – wild Asiatic buffalo will usually succeed in driving a tiger off his “kill”, or a victim under attack. They are the “King of the Jungle” and got this name for a reason.

Nothing, and no one, can stand up to the initial rush and attack of a full grown tiger. Death is almost instantaneous, tigers are predators and one of the most fearsome beasts that walks our planet!

So for one time in my life, I will give a “tip of the hat” to Air Taser for arming two Deputies with their product, (as “one” unit was obviously not enough). The fact that the handler interjected himself between his big cat and the youth, was probably the biggest factor in this attack turning out as well as it did. Some very unpleasant “bee stings” probably really ticked him off! Those darn bees did however, along with the trainer using commands, and bonds of familiarity, finally divert his attention from the atack.

For those who think that an Air Taser will protect them to the degree that they can frolic with grizzly bears, and tigers and use their “stun gun” (a misnomer) as a back up weapon – DON’T! You’ll be mowed down like weeds on a PGA golf course, they will not work! These huge predators are just way too strong and regularly carry kills from the size of deer, elk and even buffalo for miles, before settling down to enjoy their repast. An Air Taser is very potent and is not a traditional stun gun (which would be even more ridiculous), it can actually precipitate latent medical conditions, and even cause death when used on a human subject (also documented). Stop a tiger? Maybe a trained pet tiger, in this case, was diverted after already being startled. In the bush – not a snowball’s chance in hell.

Electric Stun Devices Used for Torture

While sifting through some material from Amnesty International, I found this document on the use electro-shock devices being used in some countries, as devices of torture. The resulting information is NOT for the faint of heart.

“Modern electro-shock stun weapons are fast becoming the torturers high-technology tool of choice, Amnesty International said today, as it called for the banning of exports to any country where electro-shock torture has been committed or where torture is persistent, and for an immediate suspension of their use for law enforcement.”

Well, years later, that has not happened, as these countries continue in their nefarious ways, still obtaining these device and using them for this purpose. Some people who sell these items, have made it a rule not to ship outside the USA, and at least making it a little tougher for these to be obtained. I have talked to merchants who are inundated with requests for bulk orders, on a weekly basis, to receive quotes on large quantities of stun batons and stun guns. Fortunately, no one I have discussed this with has ever engaged in a sale with one of these entities. They just hit the “delete” button and go on with their days. On the flip side of the coin, I am sure that there exist many money hungry merchants who will do business with them. If you do or are considering a sale to one of these countries (in Amnesty International’s article), then consider this interview with a young torture victim:

“This pain was described by Mediha Curabaz, a 25-year-old female nurse who was tortured by officers at the Political Branch of Adana Police Headquarters in Turkey during 1991, who said they thrust the electric truncheon violently into my sexual organs and I felt a pain as if I was being drilled there with an electric drill. They immediately lay me down on some ice. I started to bleed at this stage and fainted…before I had come fully round, they forced me to sign various papers.”

I know this was a long time ago, but the problem has increased since that time – not gotten better at all. As I mentioned, request for these items, rises every year and we can be certain that some of them are going to fall into the wrong hands. It is something that merchants who sell these products must be aware of and screen sales that are designated for other countries, or diverted to them, through “third party” shipping companies.

“Amnesty International is also calling on companies involved in the trade not to transfer electro-shock weapons to countries with a persistent record of torture.”

UFC The Ultimate Fighting Reality

I’ve still got a bad taste in my mouth after going through martial art queries on the search engines and coming up with these “Learn To Beat The Toughest…” sales pages coming up. It’s so bad that searches turn up eBay auctions on the same schmeegle promising devastating SECRET fighting skills, tips and tricks to defeat anyone without barely lifting a finger, via manuals, videos and audio tapes/cassettes. So it’s e-commerce and “there’s another one born every minute”, and why do I let it bother me? For the simple reason that they always (unless packaged as a martial arts course) zero in on how Black Belts get their butts handed to them in the streets, and how these tapes or manuals will enable you to do the same. In just a few minutes of training a day, you too can learn deadly techniques that have been secrets for 1,000’s of years right for only $XX.95?

I just watched some UFC fights on TV and in these “cage matches” almost anything goes. The rules have changed and lightened up over the years – I’m looking fondly at my first 15 UFC tapes – when ANYTHING went, oh my!! These young men are machines, unstoppable forces that could and would easily defeat just about anyone you put in front of them. These are the best of the best, but what are they using to become such well rounded ministers of mayhem? A blend of traditional martial arts. Stand up is mostly Muay Thai, wrestling and jiu-jitsu for the ground, boxing for hand speed and a good ol’ spinning heel kick, now and then, just so we don’t forget some cool karate moves in their arsenals as well. As I said, these men could beat 1/2 dozen blood thirsty street fighters (one at a time – optimal), they are like human pit bulls once the referee starts them. Outside the ring they’re just as pleasant as anyone else.

Perhaps you musicians, or competitors in other sport venues might understand, that there’s not much difference, in fact very little, in the skill level of a guitarist, a horn player, or a pole-vaulter that is on TV or in World Championship events than the other 10’s of 1,000’s who you will never see on a TV screen. A good studio musician, familiar with the material, could easily cover the super star, in cutting an album, or even in a live performance. So too with “no holds barred fighting”. For every super badass MMA (mixed martial arts) fight we see in a Las Vegas hotel cage match, there are legions of hard working MMA fighters training across the land who can’t quite beat the top 10 – but they can certainly shorten the life span of any attacker in the streets! I see these guys all the time in training halls, “laying it all out” in pursuit of excellence. Most will never see the inside of the octagon, but life puts people in certain places and times, and most were not meant to be. Good solid training by itself is reward enough for most.

So, for anyone who’s been with me so far, save your money and buy a stun baton or a telescopic steel baton (for leverage of course). Anyone who is seriously shopping for “becoming a deadly weapon”, and “beat anyone with no effort” materials, needs to have their heads examined, or take classes at a serious martial arts school. Yes, it will be those darn, wimpy Black Belts that teach you and occasionally leave a little shiner, or “speed knot” on your head and remind you that a “fool and their money are soon parted”. – End Rant

Recent Assaults In Small College Town

Well school has just begun at Aquinas College in Michigan and there have been several assaults on students. They have been relatively minor so far, but where is it going so early in the new school year?

“On August 22, an Aquinas student was assaulted in neighboring Wilcox Park. She had her purse stolen. She was not injured. The next night, August 23, a student leaving campus following night classes was waiting for a cab near the Robinson Road entrance when an assailant riding a bicycle rode past, grabbing her purse and backpack. She was not injured. The most recent incident occurred Monday (Sept. 12), when an off-campus student walking to campus was assaulted within a few houses of campus. Her assailant pushed her to the ground, fracturing her elbow and making off with her cell phone. In each case, the assailant was described as a black male in his late teens or twenties.”

Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Students have posted to their school message boards, asking why isn’t there adequate lighting? One poster it seems, just happened to be walking when he realized that the lighting for the exterior of the college was off! “I was walking across campus the other day and I realized that it was pitch black, for some reason the lights were not on and I think that simple things such as that should always be taken care of to insure our safety.” Yup! It seems that not just on campus drives but for a few blocks in all directions of campus, the outdoor lighting is poor, or non-existent. Also, “I’m glad that this issue is finally being addressed. After reading this post I was rather disappointed to learn that there had been three attacks on campus and at least fifteen others in the surrounding neighborhood yet the Aquinas Community had only been notified of two attacks.” Also, “Aquinas needs a LOT more lighting at night. It needs more than other campuses because it is wooded. I think it is great that it is heavily wooded and it should be left like that, but in response we need a LOT more, high quality lighting.” The old head in the sand approach!

Students have also pointed out: “maybe it should be mentioned that this last attack could have been prevented if Campus Safety would have driven the girl home after her quad like she called and asked them to” oops! And, “What about the campus safety escort thing – whats the story with that?” This question should not have to be asked by a student. The campus escorts should be organized and ready every evening to escort students home if they feel afraid, for whatever reason, of not being able to make it home safely. And people wonder why I advocate pepper sprays and personal alarms so strongly for students (especially the ladies) who move about in “high risk areas”? Don’t wait for someone else to protect you, take positive measures yourself to preserve your health from robbers, muggers, and rapists.

It now appears that Aquinas College has formulated a plan to reduce incidents of crime. It is a good read so check it out! Aquinas College agrees with my earlier “proactive” approach I mentioned: “We need your help to make it work.”