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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I do know someone who had a pager alarm system in LA. He got up and went down to investigate with a bat. Turned out someone was breaking into his car.
They beat the shit out of him and he was hospitalized, and he had his car stolen.
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And that, of course, is a risk that you take. But you take the same risk by simply walking down the streets of LA. You might get mugged. Should we all hide in our homes and hope the bad people go away?
go down and investigate, with a weapon. Scope out the situation. If you've got a bunch of guys breaking into your car, don't go running up to 'em. That's just obvious. Call the cops.
Just because you have one friend who got in over his head with his paging alarm does not mean the concept is flawed.
I also have a paging alarm system, and one day it went off and I went to investigate without any obvious weapons (had a folding knife ready to go), and stopped the jackass from getting into my car, and held him there until the cops arrived. And I still have my car, and he went to jail. You can have good experiences with paging alarms as well, but as with any defensive tool, you have to know how to use it. And by that I mean if you're gonna go running down to your car when the pager goes off, you'd better damn well be ready to handle yourself in a fight, because that's probably what you're running into.