Prey on your fears

I recently have been thinking about the Broadview security commercials, you know the ones where a female is having some guests at her house and nobody knows the one handsome guy, and after everyone leaves the lone handsome guest breaks the back door in and the alarm scares off the would be attacker. Then of course Broadview calls the young females' phone and saves the day from a location three states away by saying he is going to call your local police. Really?


The underlying message I get is if you have a young adult daughter, and you don't buy their security system that she is going to be sexually assaulted. Also If you are a young female living alone you had better buy this system or something really bad is going to happen. Please someone out there tell me I'm reading into this wrong. A real company using the old mafia technique pay us what we want for protection or something bad is going to happen.

Now I am not selling anything, And I don't claim to say that Broadview hasn't ever helped anyone in a time of need. But After eleven years on the overnight shift as a street cop in a city of 230,000 souls I can say that I have never been a part of an investigation or read about an investigation where a home security system has stopped a sexual assault, or caught a burglar, or done anything to help prosecute any criminal or prevent any crime.

In about seventeen years my daughter, Abby, will be close to moving out to somewhere out there, and I promise, she will not have Broadview security. But she will have knowledge of personal responsibility, situational awareness, and she will know how and when to use deadly force assisted by a Remmington 870 Police Magnum Shotgun with two slugs to the body and one to the head. Good Day.

Bristol

Lets hear it... Drive fast and turn left... when do they turn right?..why don't I just tie some toy cars to my ceiling fan? All the badmouthing...all the people that think that southern rednecks are the only fans. A Nascar race is an amazing experience, and I will have to concede the fact that they are not true stock cars anymore and haven't been for a long time. The reason for that is simple. Safety. You cannot take a car from the dealership and have it do 200 miles an hour and expect the driver to be safe. But I also believe that Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, Toyota and Goodyear have learned some lessons and made adjustments to cars that you and I drive everyday based on and accidents, breakdowns or just plain good 'How 'bout we do this to make it safe, faster or more fuel efficient.' I love Nascar and watch every race I can. And I'm gonna cut this blog short so I can watch Bristol. Its not a sport its a motorsport.

The Marriage Ref

Still watching it as I'm writing about it. It sure beats the hell out of the Frost/Nixon movie on HBO. I don't know if I'm sold on the host. Jerry Seinfeld had some great comments and should have some more airtime than what I saw. Tina Fey was great and threw in some well timed zingers. Eva, I'm still up in the air about her she just seemed too fake and stiff to laugh at. And I'm going to pass on next week's show with Madonna as a Judge. The real life couples all seemed to have a good sense of humor and were presenting real world marriage problems, from flossing in bed to should men always wear their wedding ring. I have been very disappointed in prime time TV the last three to four years but The Marriage Ref may help bring back the Love. Good Day