Woman Jumps Off Cliff to Flee Attacker
Authorities say a man tried to sexually assault a Malibu jogger who escaped by jumping off a cliff and sliding about 100 feet down a steep hillside… Foxnews story
Joggers should always carry some form of personal protection with them on their run. A container of pepper spray weighs next to nothing and can easily be used should the need arise. Runners are targets for predators because a runner is usually engrossed in their run and not paying attention. Especially if they’re listening to music and can’t hear the outside world.
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Womens Self Defense
Here’s a short video we had created highlighting some of the products we have for womens self defense.
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Motion Sensor Alarms
Motion sensor alarms are used to detect the presence of someone or something in an area where they shouldn’t be. By using infrared technology, these devices can sense when someone walks in front of them and will sound an alarm to alert the owner. More than one sensor can be used around the home or business to protect a very large area. Some alarms will even call a phone number when triggered letting you know something is wrong.
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Keeping Your Home Security System From Your Kids
Can your home security system withstand rough handling from your curious kids? Learn the tips to keep it safe and functional.
Kids are naturally curious creatures. It’s just their way to learn and appreciate things and parents are actually more than happy to accommodate them. However, there are times when children’s active and healthy curiosity is not always appreciated, especially if they tend to damage items around the house. And your home security system may just be on their list. To keep it safe from kids’ curious minds AND hands, here are tips you can use:
Keep the home security system out of kids’ reach
In the hands of a curious two-year old, this system will survive, no matter how well-constructed it is. Little hands always have a way to get in between metal seams and around the tiniest screws. Pretty soon, settings on your home security system will mysteriously change or the system itself will begin to malfunction.
To keep kids’ curious minds and hands away from your home security system, have it installed at a location that is out of their reach. An active two-year-old, for example, will find it impossible to reach the gadget if it’s installed three to four feet above his reach. If it’s out of his eye level, this system may just remain safely ignored for several years.
Keep the home security system inside a cabinet
Most homeowners keep the main panel of their home security system inside a cabinet. Be careful in choosing the location for the panel and make sure it is out of reach of your kids. A sturdy wooden or steel cabinet equipped with a lock will keep curious hands and minds away. If you have older children, keep the keys to the cabinet in a place where they will not be found easily.
Familiarize them with the system
Kids are so curious they will tear or take apart things around the house just so they will understand how things work. By doing so, they often damage items, particularly electronics. In some cases, though, kids will often leave an item alone after they’ve familiarized themselves with it.
A good technique to try with older kids is to introduce them to the home security system while it is being installed. Explain what it is, how it works and why your home needs one. Once kids understand how important the system is, they will be less likely to try to take it apart or play with it.
Keep kids in mind when designing the layout for a more complicated home security system
Look for ‘kid-safe’ areas and nooks in the home where you wish your system installed. Get on your knees (crawl if you have to) so you can see the room from your child’s point of view. If you can see a component of your system and get to it from where you are, your child will, too. Try to plan the installation based on your kids’ limitations to minimize the risk that your tiny toddler will damage your expensive home security system.
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Self Defense SAP Gloves – Are They Legal
SAP gloves are often used in self defense. This is a type of a tool that has steel sewn into their knuckles. They are not legal for self defense use in all states, so please do research before buying them.
SAP gloves are self defense weapons that usually have steel sewn into their knuckles. Also referred to as law enforcement gloves, these gloves can help protect your hands from blunt object trauma. Such gloves are also good for hand protection to defend yourself and knock out people – bad ones please. Most SAP gloves are made from leather, and some are available in open fingered models that are fashioned for users who live in hot climates. Such SAP gloves will keep the hand cool. These models also have powdered hot in the glove knuckles, and some models even have shot in the palms.
Some are also designed for different sports and needs. For instance, kickboxing and karate gloves are also available with powdered steel in the wrap, are flexible, and at times do not have attachments for fingers other than the thumb. SAP gloves for self defense have shots in the knuckles and will appear cool and unassuming. Even bikers use such gloves to keep their hands safe from flying debris common on roads. They also come in tactical models that law enforcement personnel use. Such gloves are fashioned from deerskin and are very flexible, making them easy to wear. They allow police officers to keep a firm grip on their weapons.
Selecting which gloves to buy, however, may not be simple. You need to check if they are legal for use in your state. Not all states approve the use of SAP gloves, say in situations such as professional fighting, or even for self defense. This can be difficult if you plan to use them for defending yourself and use them in court testimony later.
They are not also suitable if you are planning to put up a school that uses such gloves in a self defense course; or if you want to attend a school that teaches the use of such gloves.
If these weapons are legal, then you may need to consider other factors, such as price and their quality. Such gloves can be advantageous for many different purposes. You can use them when fighting, whether in true combat or for sport. If your opponent is holding a weapon, you may get struck in your hand, and you could sustain a good deal of injury if you are hit. You should also be able to maintain a better grip on your weapon with the help of a good SAP glove.
These are only a few benefits of using SAP gloves. Always check if they are legal before you buy them. For more information, talk to your security retailer or self defense expert.
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Wireless Home Alarms – Why Everyone Uses It
Crime statistics may go up and down, but it’s best not to risk the safety of your loved ones at home on the basis of varying crime figures. Have peace of mind even though you’re out of town or abroad by having a wireless home alarm installed.
What Wireless Home Alarms Can Do
Wireless home alarms are best installed by professionals because they require network support from your computer and the Internet and not everyone has sufficient knowledge of that. Once installed, your wireless home alarm will monitor designated areas and entry points. If the alarm is triggered, you and maybe the entire block as well will hear an alarm. The police department may also be immediately informed if your system is connected to them.
Hassle-Free Operation
Wireless home alarms offer push-button operation so that your children may be able to control it when necessary. Remote control and viewing is also just as easy once it’s been set up by a professional. All you need to do is type in the prescribed URL, enter your login details, and then you’ll be able to monitor your home wherever you are.
Better Flexibility and Security
A wireless home alarm is better than a wired home alarm because there are no telltale wires that can alert burglars and vandals to its presence. They’ll only find out that your home is protected by a state-of-the-art wireless home alarm system when it’s too late.
Because of its wireless setup, you also have more choices about when and where to have its components installed. CCTV cameras, window and door alarms, and motion sensors can go wherever you want them to go. It all depends on which areas you wish to have the greatest amount of protection.
All-Out Protection
A comprehensive wireless home alarm system will protect your loved ones from all fronts. CCTV cameras with infrared capabilities will be able to capture images and footages even in areas with low light levels.
Alarms can be placed on your garage doors, swimming pool, gates, and even your fireplace. Motion sensors will detect any signs of movement in designated areas. If the motion sensors find such movement, your wireless home alarm system can activate the floodlights and other preset security responses.
Last but not the least, wireless home alarm systems may come with advanced security protection to prevent unauthorized use. Besides the usual passwords, biometrics may also be used.
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Multi-function Alarms – Why You Need One
A multifunction alarm can help you alert yourself or others to theft or aggressors. Such an alarm can have tools such as a flashlight, sound alarm, or smoke detector.
One of the ways to keep yourself safe and secure is through having your own personal alarm system. It can be useful if you frequently walk home or travel home alone. You might also need this security system if you leave your house or property unattended for long periods of time. There are many ways for you to get into trouble, whether you are standing still in one place or moving from one place to another. You need to find the best ways to keep yourself safe, and one way is to get yourself a multifunction alarm.
A multifunction personal alarm comes in many shapes, sizes, and models, and it may include a variety of tools. One of them is a flashlight. A flashlight is not only useful for you to get around in the dark: it can also be used as a signaling device because of its special LED. With its help, you can signal to people far away that you are in trouble and is in need of assistance. Sometimes, this flashlight may be replaced by a strobe or a laser pointer-like LED device.
This multipurpose tool also comes with its own sound alarm. This emits a high decibel beep when you are attacked.
It can alert people in the vicinity that you are being attacked. This can be useful if you are working at night or walking around in an area where there are not too many people or whom are sleeping. You can always wake them up with a loud sound, but you might not be able to catch their attention by simply turning your flashlight on.
There are also multifunction alarms that might be helpful for frequent travelers. They usually have trigger pins that sets off an alarm when they are released. You can attach this type of alarm to your bag to avoid theft. This alarm system is usually equipped with a nifty smoke detector, which you can carry to places that do not have smoke detectors, such as hotels in secluded areas. This can protect you from succumbing to suffocation from a fire.
Other multifunction alarms mighy come with additional safety tools, such as a small knife or mace, which you can also use to protect yourself. As technology becomes more modernized, more alarm models will be available. For more information on multifunction alarms and how you can get one that will suit your needs, talk to your security items retailer or to a security.
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Survival Knife – Why you Need One
If it’s that time of the year again and you want to pit your skills against the forces of Mother Nature, make sure you don’t leave the safety of your home without your old, trusty survival knife.
How Far Will Your Resourcefulness Go?
Survival knives are your #1 tool to support your resourcefulness. You can accomplish a lot of things just by letting your common sense, imagination, and resourcefulness work together. Survival knives can help you build fire, traps, rafts, and so much more. You just have to find a way to maximize on the resources you have in the wild.
Health and Safety
Contagious diseases are just as dangerous as wild animals that roam in the dark, but you can use your survival knife to make your camping trip as healthy as possible. You can create provisional mosquito nets and herbal remedies. You can ensure that your food and water remain sanitary with containers and covers made from wood, leaves, stones, and whatever else you can find of use in the woods.
Building a Home
In the even that you lose your tent and sleeping bag, your survival knife can be of help to build you functional shelter. It won’t be as luxurious, but it can at least give you protection from storms of all kinds.
When building a makeshift shelter in the wilds, be sure that you choose the ideal location. Even the sturdiest shelters won’t make a difference if you build them directly out in the open. Try to look for areas where you can use a solid surface to serve as at least one side of your shelter.
Feeding Yourself
If you run out of provisions, you need to find a way to get yourself food and water and again, your survival knife can help you with that. You can build traps on the ground or hanging from trees. You can spear fish with your knives and gather fruits from trees.
Defending Yourself
Last but not the least, a survival knife can do what it’s meant to and that’s to ensure you survive. If someone or something attacks you, use your knife.
An Important Reminder
Before leaving home, make sure that your survival knife is still in good working order. Be sure that its edges are still razor sharp and without any rust. It must also come with full tangs; if its handle was to break for whatever reason, its design allows you to use a makeshift handle for your knife.
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Ninja Keychain Kubotan – Portable self defense weapon
A ninja keychain kubotan is a portable self defense weapon that you can attach to a keychain and keep with you at all times. It is made of metal and has two spikes for your fingers.
Self Defense – Top Priority
Being able to defend oneself is now top priority for many different people. After all, the current job type has changed drastically from the usual nine to five of yesterday. Work is now being outsourced all over the world, and they have to do work during different times of the day, sometimes waking up at midnight to work until the early hours of the morning. A lot of companies are wary of theft and have a graveyard shift of both workers and security officers. The world that leads from one’s home to one’s workplace is peopled with both the good and the evil of the planet, and you need to keep yourself from the latter kind.
The Ninja KeyChain Kubotan
One self defense weapon to consider is the ninja keychain kubotan. This is actually a modified kubotan: this kubotan includes spikes that protrude from the body of the kubotan, and these would stick out from between your fingers when you make a fist. Such a blow from this kubotan would be deadly: if you make a good punch, you could draw blood; and if you’ve trained on using this weapon, you could defend yourself quite well. This kind of weapon is built of solid metal, and it will often be a little over five inches long. All points of the kubotan or kobutan are made of metal, and it can therefore be used from any direction. You can even stick spikes inward to inflict damage using the metal stick!
This self defense tool can come in solid colors, such as silver or black. But, you still have to be careful about using the ninja keychain kubotan. For one, if you do not know how to handle it, you could end up hurting yourself. Those spikes are anything but safe for someone who is not fully-trained to use the kubotan! Moreover, you should get training on how to handle a kubotan. This is not a tool that is used on its own: you may need to perfect or, at the very least, have working knowledge of a martial art so that you can defend yourself effectively.
Legalities of this Self Defense Weapon
Finally, it is also your responsibility to know if using such a keychain would be legal in your state or county. Not all counties, states, or even countries approve the use of this iteam as a weapon. There are limits to how and where you can use it. For more information, talk to your local police or legal experts.
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Pepper Spray – Heat Levels Matter
When shopping for pepper spray products, you usually take into account factors like pepper spray pattern, price, and size. Definitely, those are important but you also have one more thing to consider, and that’s the heat rating of your pepper spray product.
More Heat Equals Longer Effects
That’s basically what greater heat levels can contribute to your personal safety. The effects of pepper spray are inflammatory by nature. This means that affected areas will immediately sting. If it hits your eyes, they’ll close in reflex to prevent further harm. That means staying partially or completely blind for a certain period of time.
If your respiratory system is affected and you inhale enough capsaicin, you’ll start coughing and choking and experience nausea. Your nose could also start to run as mucus is produced as another reflex response to the presence of capsaicin.
The effects don’t stop there. If you try to rub it away, you will only succeed in having the inflammation spread to other areas. That means more parts of your face will hurt.
How long all these lasts will, as we’ve said earlier, depend on how much capsaicin a pepper spray product has. On average, pepper spray effects last twenty to forty-five minutes. You have two ways to determine a product’s heat rating. First, there’s the easy way – just check out the product label and the perentage of Oleoresin Capsicum or OC indicated.
The typical pepper spray product uses a 10% OC solution. This is equivalent to 2,000,000 SHU – but we’ll talk about that later. Others have 18 and 20% OC content and are consequently more effective to use against your attacker.
Understanding How SHU Works
SHU stands for Scoville Heat Units and used for the Scoville Scale, a measurement system devised by American chemist Wilbur Scovile for gauging the heat levels of pepper. More specifically, it measures the amount of capsaicin in a given pepper or pepper spray product.
Peppers you see often used for cooking spicy dishes can have SHU ratings anywhere from zero (sweet bell pepper) to 8,000. The more exotic dishes may have peppers spicy enough to register with more than a million SHU.
And with pepper spray products, there are those that have excessively high capsaicin content to score 16,000,000 SHU in the Scoville Scale. You can just imagine how hot that can be!
Be More Effective
Having a pepper spray product with a high heat rating is good, but it can be better if you combine with a triple action attack: there are self-defense weapons that combine a pepper spray, tear gas, and UV dye marker all into one.
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