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No Clues In Local Store Robbery

It’s been about one month since the large man, described only as white and wearing a “ball cap” struck one of our local pharmacies.  He waved a pistol and asked for cash.  Needless to say this isn’t a TV show and in a small town it was a very simple job, looking back at it. 

I entered the same store this afternoon and was greeted with police sketch artists’ renditions of the robber - he looked a little more like Castro in his youth when you get right up on top of one.  The army surplus shape or cut of the hat was a dead giveaway.  Short bill as well.  I tried to strike up a little conversation about the robbery with the counter girl in the pharmacy.  She didn’t seem to be mentally engaged in any thought until I asked the question “how are feeling since that guy came in last month – you know, the robbery”?

She appeared to stiffen slightly but recovered nicely and said “well I guess you never really get completely over it, you just kind of forget it a little more with time”.  Fair enough I thought.  Have they charged anyone or gotten a lead on a suspect?  “No”, was all she said.  Noting that she didn’t seem predisposed to conversing about it, I let it go and she quickly changed the topic of conversation to Christmas gift sets, which she was stacking and getting ready to put up on display.

Hopefully the local police will get a tip, or something will break and the robber will get pinched.  I think it would bring a little closure into the victim’s lives and put things in perspective again.  They might be rubbing elbows with this creep in a bank line or at gas station cash register.  Not a pleasant thought.

What Really Works?

That’s a tough question to answer.  There are so many variables that come into play.  Is the woman feisty and have the mindset to “do what it takes” to get free from an attacker or is she more of the “watch out for the nails” type of gal.  When faced with an insane person or a substance abuser, the odds are slim that a woman who has been targeted for rape or worse, is going to kick the c**p out of a much larger, stronger and more determined adversary.

I’m not going to discuss fighting the assailant at all so let’s just skip over that and move on to escaping the situation with a little help – to “even the playing field” a bit OK?  We have self defense products that are very cheap and can mean the difference in your survival in such a scenario.  Let’s assume that women who have good cause for a self defense product are at least aware of their surroundings enough to deploy such deterrents if need be.  That said let’s see what in our bag of tricks.

1. A high quality personal alarm, complete with strobing LED light and a 110 dB alarm – very bright and very, very loud will set you back about $10.  This would be the first stage – get a lot of attention drawn to your situation via high intensity strobing light and an alarm that’s so loud it will just about break your eardrums.  Criminals hate attention and most will retreat from the use of this product.

2. A canister of (my favorite) Mace pepper gel – shoots up to 18 feet with pinpoint accuracy (like silly string on steroids) and covers the attacker’s face like a giant wad of bubble gum.  It sticks like glue and burns like h*ll – wiping it away only rubs it in deeper and causes loss of vision, difficulty breathing and is non-lethal.  I like this model since it isn’t affected by wind, it can be fired inside a car if an attacker jumps in the passenger side but he’ll feel the pain – not you.  There is no cross-contamination worries due to ambient particles in the air, it’s all in the pepper gel.  We sell these to security agencies for use in hospitals or where the air must be 100% pure – NO cross contamination worries reported.  Your cost: about $17.50 – how can anyone resist?

3. We have given you enough information on the use of these two products to make your choice and at the same time, a lot safer.  Let’s add a third deterrent for that feisty lady who wants to dish out a little pain or to insure that she has completely “KO’ed” her attacker.  I would recommend a small stun gun in a very high voltage.  These really hurt if enabled and a good solid contact is made.  There are cell phone stun guns that look so real you’ll probably start to dial out on one and they pack 850K – 950K volt charges.  Trust me, I’ve been accidentally shocked by a 975K volt model on the hand – it felt like my hand had been hit with a baseball bat for a couple of hours and then subsided.  That was a micro-second burst mind you – I threw it away from me the second it touched me.  Imagine what a couple of seconds in the chest, gut or arm would do?  These are a little more expensive, but worth every penny of the $56 dollar price tag – I’ve owned mine for 1 1/2 years and I just picked up some new batteries.  Not because it doesn’t snarl angrily when test fired, but just to bring it up to brand new status in the power department.  They have a safety to push forward – a red indicator light comes on to let you know it’s armed (immediately) then just press the trigger and fire into your attacker.  The good ones have a lifetime guarantee – look for it.  With a little “can do” attitude, I feel secure in recommending these to you ladies who feel the need for more protection than your fists but don’t want to carry a gun or resort to killing an assailant.

No results found for N-word!

The Dictionary returns “No Results” for the term ”N-word”.  The racial slur “nigger” brings up dozens of meanings, some from various countries as well.  One does mention that only another black person can use the word “nigger”.  BEEEEEP…wrong answer!  If this word, be it a racial slur, or a way of blacks to flex their muscles – is only allowed to be spoken by another person of color, then who becomes the racists?  Who are to be considered the bigots?  It would have to be black people since they use the forbidden word a few hundred times in one “stand up comedy” bit.  I am a white male and I can make the same claims against blacks who regularly and with great alacrity refer to me as “honky” or ”cracker” – or “white boy/mother fucker.”  No, I’m not buying into this game.  I won’t be intimidated by society into putting up with black comics and entertainers calling me honky, white trash or white boy!  I won’t be portrayed as a short-dicked retard that talks in a weird nasal tone and is oblivious to everything around me because I’m white.  Just so you boys and girls know where I’m coming from.  We’re all guilty and we know it!

Dog The Bounty Hunter’s son Tucker, used his father’s trust to set him up and record Mr. Chapman Sr. (The Dog) using the word “nigger” repeatedly.  What isn’t reported, is that in the midst of the Dog chewing out his son, he said “we use that word here sometimes” but “we don’t mean you scum nigger without a soul…we don’t mean that, but the rest of the country will think we do.”  Dog is a celebrity (of sorts) and someone that a lot of people look up to – he should have been more careful – but who expects their children to set them up and record a private conversation for sale to the media, making him look far worse than he is?  Let’s face it people, we all do or have used racial slurs at times!  There are exceptions who would prefer to use the recently coined phrase: ”N-word” in public.  As long as Whites are called anything but white and Blacks continue using “honky” to describe me – I demand that I be called the “H-word” or the cracker version, “C-word”.  Isn’t this a ridiculous, pathetic state of affairs?  I’m speaking to anyone, of any color and I still pose the question “isn’t this all a ridiculous, pathetic state of affairs” when we as White people have to tip toe very carefully, so as not to offend Mr. or Ms. Black person.  The opposite holds true as well.

There’s an old saying that says “pick your fights” and I believe it applies here very well.  If the Black segment of America or Hispanics – whoever considers themselves “Black” – has decided that “we can use racial slurs against our own race and some good ones for yours as well”, as the fight they choose, then it’s a damn poor starting place.  Physics tells us that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”.  You call me occasional slurs and “mean something” by it, I use one referring to you and “mean nothing” by it, but you’ll say “it means everything”!!  You are fighting a battle based on ignorance – since you’re not going to curb your tongues to please Mr. Charley - but you expect whites to never use an “off the cuff” racial remark about you.

Why not add a little love and understanding to all of this – and let’s believe that you don’t hate us if you call us a “white mother fu**er” and then remember that we don’t hate you if we call you a “nigger.”  They’re all just keystrokes on my keyboard – it’s the hearts and minds of the readers who attach good and evil motives to the truth.  Peace – Out!