Archive for January, 2012

Things That go Bump in the Night

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Have you ever found yourself in a strange city,  in a strange hotel or motel, wondering if someone might have the nerve to come into your room while you’re asleep, and rob you, or even do something worse?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve stayed in some pretty crummy motels and hotels in my younger days,  and there were times when I surprised myself  by waking up all in one piece!

And I wasn’t some 97 pound weakling at the time – I was a 350 pound professional wrestler!

In the ring at night, As the “bad guy” or “heel” as we liked to called them. I might have taken turns throwing Dusty Rhodes, or Hulk Hogan around on the mat!  (Okay, if you know your wrestling, then you know that I’m no spring chicken, but the point is that there wasn’t much I was afraid of in those days – when I was awake and able to see my opponent. We went anywhere we wanted, no matter how rough the neighborhood.)

But… at night… when the lights were off, we all knew that someone with a pass key could slip into our room and we might not hear a thing. After all, we slept as hard as we “worked”. That gave me the willies!

Okay, now I’m older, and wiser, and while I no longer get used as a mop for the “Good Guys” to clean up the canvas, I’m still big enough to take care of myself, when I can see them coming.

And I don’t stay in those dumps anymore;  We stay in very nice hotels and motels. But… guess what! No matter where we are, and no matter how nice the hotel, I still turn and toss all night long with those funny feelings, wondering  if someone was in my room, or might be, before the sun came up.

If you had told me that you could solve that problem for a mere $100, I might have hurt my elbow getting the money out of my pocket. $50? “Give me two!”

I once tried a motion detector, but that backfired on me! Anytime my wife or I got up to go to the bathroom,  it went off! And that woke up everyone in our room and in rooms all around us!

If I have an uninvited guest, I WANT everyone to wake up! But I tend to forget about the motion detector until it’s too late! And then I found it! This is so cool – I wish I had it when wrestling in Mexico, or Japan, or San Antonio!

I sleep like a baby now, knowing that no one will come into my room until I’ve gotten up and opened the door, and there’s no way I’ll accidentally set it off.

This is it: the Door Stop Alarm Man, this is so simple, why didn’t I think of that?
Door Stop Alarm
At only $15.00 you might want to order several at this price,  because you are taking the first one in your suitcase,  every time you travel.

But… there are several doors in your house that need to be secured when you’re alone, or when your family is alone when you’re away from home.

This little device will:
Wake you up!
Probably send the intruder running!
Give you time to get to your favorite “welcoming device” for uninvited guests;
Give you time to set the dog loose; Etc.

Once inside your home, a burglar can turn into a rapist or murdered very fast, once he sees that you are asleep and no harm to him.  But if he knows that YOU know that he’s coming, thanks to the 2nd Amendment, he has to assume that you are also coming and that you are armed and dangerous.

This can save lives, and this price, you can’t afford to not have several.

 

PS. Don’t forget to give one of these to your daughter in college!  And give them as gifts to any young person who travels or lives away from home


The Electronic Watch Dog

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Jake felt more than sad when Marshall passed away. He felt worried.

Marshall was Jake’s loyal German Shepherd. For twelve years, he guarded Jake’s sporting goods store from would-be thieves and neighborhood troublemakers. Even as the neighborhood got a little worse, Marshall kept the peace.

Jake’s store was the only one on the block without any graffiti. Nobody, it seemed, wanted a run in with a big, angry guard dog.

Few people knew that Marshall was really a sweetheart, lavishing Jake with kisses every time he’d open the store in the morning.

Jake’s daughter, Melissa, kept the store’s books, and paid a visit to her father every Thursday. She knew the old man couldn’t afford to install a state of the art security system. But she also knew that he was a little too fragile to try and train another big dog.

She brought her father a gift on her next visit. “This,” she announced proudly, “will keep Marshall’s legend alive in the neighborhood.”

She explained to Jake that the Electronic Watch Dog used infrared sensors to watch the store at night, just like Marshall did. When intruders showed up at either the front or the back doors, the box would bark. And it would bark louder and louder until the disturbance went away.

That Saturday night, two teenage boys strolled up the sidewalk. The midnight streetlight stretched their shadows halfway up the block. They banged and pulled on security gates as they talked about the trouble they could cause.

“Didn’t old man Benson’s dog just die?” asked the tall one.

“I think I heard Billy say something like that,” replied the short one, “I could sure use some new sneakers!”

They hustled up to the front window, but before they could even try to break in, they heard loud barking from inside the store. And it was getting louder.

“Yo, I thought you said that dog was dead,” cried the short hooligan.

“He must have got a new one,” said his partner in crime, “I ain’t messin’ with no dog!”

The two juveniles hustled away around the corner as fast as their legs could carry them.

Marshall’s legacy remains intact. He’s still a presence in Benson’s Sporting Goods, with a picture above the cash register – and the loud bark from the Electronic Watch Dog.