Self Defense and Security Blog

Well thank God the holidays including MLK will be over after Monday. Guess that means I can get busy and do something other than eating, going to parties, eating, going to relatives, eating, going to casinos and eating and drinking along with a little poker. Ole Poppajohn actually came in second in a poker tournament at Harrah’s Rincon here in the People’s Republic of Arnold’s California. We were also at Pechanga (my pocket Aces lost to two pair) in California plus Reno (just plain card poor) and Vegas. Conveniently for me the ATMs in those places are all located inside, prominent and usually with an armed guard close by so there was no need to worry so much about someone attempting to relieve me of my cash. All ATMs however are not so well placed and if you must use one after hours it should be cause for concern. Poppajohn will attempt to help out with that worry with the following treatise on ATM Security. I will follow up with a real neat new special.

ATM SECURITY
ATM cash machines have been incorporated in our way of life. They offer a real convenience to those on the run but at the same time offer an element of risk. Using an ATM machine safely requires awareness and a little planning. Just because an ATM machine is open and available 24-hours a day doesn’t mean it is safe to use it. Most ATM robberies occur at night between 8:00 PM and midnight. ATM robbers are usually males under 25 years of age and most work alone. ATM robbers usually position themselves nearby waiting for a victim to approach and withdraw cash. Most ATM robbery victims are women and were alone when robbed. Most claim that they never saw the robber coming. Most ATM robbers used a gun or claimed to have a concealed weapon when confronting the victim and demanding their cash.
If you or your family members use ATM cash machines on a regular basis, here are some tips that can make the process a little safer:
• Use only ATM machines in well-lighted, high-traffic areas. Don’t use ATM machines
that are remote or hidden such as being located behind buildings, behind pillars, walls,
or away from public view. Beware of obvious hiding places like shrubbery or
overgrown trees. ATM robbers like to have the element of surprise and no witnesses.
Robbers like good escape routes like nearby freeway on-ramps or high speed
thoroughfares.
• Choose an ATM that looks and ‘feels’ safer, even if it is a couple of miles out of the
way. Try and limit your use to daylight hours. Take someone with you after hours, if
you can. When you drive up to an ATM location, scan the area for any suspicious
persons. If you see anyone suspicious standing nearby or sitting in a car, drive away.
When you approach an ATM on foot be prepared and have your access card ready.
Memorize your personal PIN number (never write it down) to prevent loss and speed the transaction. After inserting your card and your PIN number keep an eye out behind you. Never accept an offer to help or request for help from a suspicious male ahead of you at the machine. If anyone suspicious or seemingly dangerous approaches terminate your transaction and leave immediately, even if it means running away and leaving your ATM card in the machine. First, tell the suspicious male in a loud, firm voice to “back-off” and leave you alone. This is designed to startle the person and give you time to flee, if appropriate. When you receive cash from the machine put it away immediately, extract your card, and walk away.
• If you use your car at a drive-thru ATM machine the same rules apply plus the following. Keep the car in gear, with your foot firmly on the brake, while using the ATM machine. Keep a close eye on your rear and side view mirrors during the transaction. Robbers almost always approach from the rear on the drivers side. If you see anyone approaching, drive off even if it means leaving your ATM card behind. If you are confronted by an armed robber, just give up your money without argument. The cash is not worth serious injury or death. Get to a safe place and call the police immediately.
• If lights around the ATM are not working, don’t use that machine
• Avoid ATM machines adjacent to obvious hiding places
• Have your card ready and leave quickly, not counting your cash in public
• Beware of offers for help from strangers during an ATM transaction
• Don’t fight with or attempt to follow the robber
• Drive or walk to a safe place and immediately call the police

Okay, end of sermon. Now let’s eat, oh no let’s get to the special!!
Poppajohn was offered an outrageous price on a quality telescoping stun baton from the manufacturer Street Wise because of some slight damage that occurred during shipping let’s check em out
Our loss is your gain! On our last shipment we had some expandable batons damaged in shipping. The collars are cracked, but the stun guns have been tested and work fine. These batons are sold AS-IS with no warranty but we are selling them at over 70% off our normal price.

For those who want to defend themselves from a safe distance away and do not want to carry along bulky stun baton, the Streetwise 700k Expandable Stun Baton is the perfect answer. It extends from 12 1/2 inches to 21 in. with the touch of a button to allow you to defend yourself while keeping a safe distance away from your attacker. In addition to the powerful 700,000 volt stun gun it also features an ear piercing 130 decibel alarm. The two levels of protection allows you to defend yourself by sounding the powerful alarm or stunning the attacker with 700,000 volts! As a bright electric current pulsates up and down the top 12 inches, it creates an intimidating electrical sound that can often stop a would-be attacker in his tracks. If the sight and sound of the electric current and the personal alarm are not enough to stop him a jolt of 700,000 volts certainly will! Unit Requires four (4) CR123A three volt lithium batteries (not included).

Features Include:

* Two levels of protection: alarm and stun gun. The alarm can be activated to scare off a would-be attacker and summon help. If the alarm is not a strong enough deterrent, the stun feature may be used
* Conveniently Located Slide Switch: easily activate the stun baton and alarm with your thumb
* Safety Switch: prevents accidental discharge
* Holster: a holster with belt loop is included for easy carrying

These batons are sold AS-IS with no warranty.
Check them out here http://www.kbspersonalsecurity.com/swexpandablespecial.htm

If there is such a thing I have it. A head full of crap is what I call it. Come to think of it that reminds me of a presidential candidate I just listened to something about spreading something, oh well. Can’t wait until the election is over!
Since returning from the funeral for my mother in law a week ago Sunday, Poppajohn has been under the weather big time with the aforementioned “bad head” and spent most of last week pretty much comatose, sure happy that’s over.
Lessee, oh yeah my original purpose here was to come up with something to stimulate sales cuz they’ve been a little slow. So howsabout a real good across the board discount? Well why not I heard someone say.
All right then here goes. From now until midnight Halloween Poppajohn will discount your purchases by 10% for purchases up to $50, 15% for purchases between $50 and $100 and 20% yeah twenty percent for purchases over $100. Dasdabest I can do folks so iffn you want a discount just enter the code “HALLOWEEN DISCOUNT” in the message to merchant section during checkout, caps or not I don’t care. If you choose the Paypal option during checkout Poppajohn will issue you a paypal refund, if you do not your CC charge will be processed at the discounted price.
Please let Poppajohn suggest that you start lookin here:
The Cybereye hidden camera
Aside from that take care, stay safe, vote.
Always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan
Thanks a bunch, Poppajohn

Hey it’s Poppajohn again I’ve had a tough day. Spent the whole morning straightening out screw ups that happened on the weekend that I like to think weren’t my fault. I had an order for a recorder from a fella in Virginia who wanted to know how long it would take to arrive at his home and since I can order it drop shipped from Florida instead of shipping it from here in California I told him it would most likely be there by Wednesday. He was thrilled and so was I to be able to make him that happy. So when I get shipping notification from UPS today after three o’clock on the west coast it says they are shipping it to me instead of to him and I have to re-order for it to arrive in Virginia on Thursday I hope and e-mail him to give him the bad news. Another customer (good guy) in Ireland sends back a Pretender I sent him cuz it jus didn have any power. So it arrives and of course it’s the batteries and now I have to send it back to him in Ireland along with new batteries and that’s all my fault too. Anyway that’s just a couple of the problems, there were lot’s more. So anyhow this gets me thinkin bout ambushes acourse and I doodled out this new copy for the Pretender:

A normal operation for the US Army ground forces in a
guerrilla type encounter is to set up ambushes (pick out
likely trail intersections that the enemy might use and
under cover of darkness place a team to watch the spot
and engage the enemy there if he should show), which is
to say "capture or kill the enemy combatants on the
spot" if possible. You can set up your own ambush
of whatever local creeps might be using the trails where you live
with one of the Pretender Cell Phone Stun Guns on this page. Guaranteed
they will never suspect that the cell phone you, your
wife or daughter is holding is going to zap them into
next week, BUT IT WILL!!

THE PRETENDER 950,000 volt CELL PHONE STUN GUN
appears to be a camera cell phone, it’s not of course,
we know it’s a Claymore Mine (e.g. powerful directional
anti-personnel ordnance) for ambushing mooks. It’s a high
powered 950,000 volt stun gun. It also has a very bright
built-in 12 LED flashlight. To prevent accidental discharge,
two levels of safety are built in. The safety switch must
be in the on position (this will cause an LED warning
light to come on) and the trigger button pressed before
the unit will operate. It operates on three (3) CR2 batteries
which are included FREE ($12.00 value).
FREE holster
also included.
Only 3.8 inches tall

Shipping is FREE

You may wish to try the Immobilizer
cell phone stun gun instead or the Stun
Master cell phone stun gun we also have the FSC80
Cell Phone Stun Gun or the Candy
Apple Red or Blue cell phone stun gun all operate
easily and give you the same stealth advantage. Please
check out
stun gun legality
before ordering. If your’e curious about how stun
guns function this’ll tell ya. Remember, the purpose of this stun gun, and
all other non-lethal self defense products, is to give
you time to escape. Use the cellphone stun gun, then
run for safety. Don’t stand around looking at the slobbering
mook on the ground
Okay that’s the new copy and to celebrate my inspiration I’m offering a deal to the faithful which is TEN Bucks off of Poppajohns’ already low price of $69.95 just use the discount code AMBUSH at checkout for the reduced price plus if you order before Wednesday night at midnight I will throw in a 1/2 ounce Pepper shot with the injection molded holster in black blue or red (your choice) just let me know in the message section when you check out and we will get it to you but if you forget we won’t know to send it to you so be sure to mention free pepper shot (black, blue or red) Pretender
cell phone stun gun
Thanks a Lot!!
Poppajohn
Always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan.

Hey folks Poppajohn here. This is the first post for the new blog here on Personal Security 4U
We haven’t met before but you probably have a good idea where I’m comin from just by viewing the web site. Poppajohn was a soldier a long time ago and just can’t seem to shake the feelin that the world still needs em. More bout me some other time.
Some of you have been e-mailing me asking for some good hot specials for the 4th of July. Well I been thinkin bout that and I think I have a good one even though it’s been around awhile. How does $150.00 OFF on a Taser Gun sound. I can’t allow any other discounts along with this one but trust me it’s the lowest price you have ever seen on a 44001 Air Taser M18L and it will be effective at least through the Fourth. To go along with that I have a new informational page for tasers that I feel the need to share with you. So here it is:

Poppajohn will try to tell you what he knows about
Taser weapons in something like a succinct manner.

First to begin with there are two types of stun weapons
available today. Number one is the
traditional
stun gun with two portruding electrodes (positive
and negative) which set up an electrical circuit between
the two electrodes so that current will pass between
them when the stun gun is activated.
more about electricity.The early
models are typically powered by nine volt alkaline
batteries or for most of the later
models three volt lithium camera batteries which
allows them to be constructed on a smaller frame. Conventional
stun systems primarily effect the sensory nervous system.
Something like static on the communication lines between
the brain and the body, stun systems interfere with
the human command and control systems. The effect is
the muscles contract and relax at a very high rate However,
a small percentage of people with very high tolerance
for electrical stimulation can fight through the effect
of these 7-14 Watt systems, more about how
stun guns work.

The Air
Taser M18 and the Self
Defense Taser C2 weapons are much more aggressive
in that one need not wait until your assailant or would
be assailant is close enough to touch. Taser Weapons
fire their electrode probes out to a distance of 15
feet (civilian) or as much as 35 feet (law enforcement)
at 135 feet per second which attach to the aggressor
and send current through wires to the probes which sets
up a current flow (circuit) between them. Taser weapons
also use a more powerful
18 to 26 Watt electrical
signal (known as EMD Electro Muscular Disruption or
NMI Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation) which can completely
override the central nervous system and directly control
the skeletal muscles. The electrical signal transmits
throughout the area where the probes make contact with
the body or clothing quickly resulting in the attacker
losing neuromuscular control and the ability to perform
any co-ordinated actions. The energy can penetrate as
much as two cumulative inches of clothing or one inch
per probe.They do not however rely on huge voltage to
get the job done they only use 50,000 volts as opposed
to the million or two with the highest powered stun
guns. Utilizing an automatic
timing mechanism to apply the electric charge results
in a Shaped Pulse™ Technology that is a
sophisticated pulse wave which utilizes a high voltage
leading edge to penetrate barriers such as clothing
around the body followed by a lower voltage stimulation
pulse to cause the Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation. The
TASER releases the electric current
in a preset time sequence (initially seven seconds followed
by a number of 1.8 second breaks for a total time of
about 30 seconds in each cycle).This cycle ensures that
the nervous system of the target ain’t gonna recover
sufficiently enough to allow him to remove the probes.
The following bursts disrupt the process of the mook’s
regaining equilibrium of his nervous system. While the
would be perp is disabled and the taser is still delivering
follow-on bursts, you can place the device on the ground
and escape. Yeah, SCOOT. Mooks are just generally (not
nice people) you don’t want to be there when he recovers.
Just a copy of the police report will get your taser
unit replaced.

The Air Cartridge is a replaceable module that is easily
affixed to the front of either the M or X Series Models
of Taser. the Self Defense Taser C2 uses a similar cartridge
which is optimized for and fits only the C2 Models.
By firing the electrodes out from the Taser it allows
for the engagement of targets at ranges up to 15 feet.
The electrodes are fired using a blast of compressed
nitrogen for a propulsion system, the cartridges incorporate
the high voltage insulated TASER wire connected to two
bi-metal probes, and AFID serialization.

The Anti-Felon Identification (AFID) is a system which
attempts to identify the user of the taser for each
firing. Thereby possibly detering misuse of the Taser
through enhanced accountability. The AFID includes the
bar-coded ID of each and every SELF
DEFENSE TASER C2 cartridge or AIR
TASER M18 Cartridge and disperses numerous confetti-like
ID tags upon activation (when the cartridge is fired).
Thus allowing for tracing the buyer of the cartridge.

Laser Sight Integration is available for the SELF DEFENSE
TASER C2 a microprocessor controls laser illumination
for the laser sighting on the Self Defense Taser C2
when the safety switch is activated. Laser sighting
is also available on the Air Taser M18 though it is
straight laser sighting and not micro-processor controlled.

The power source for the self defense taser C2 is an
integrated power source with lithium battery cells and
a solid-state memory module which tracks power consumption,
power levels remaining, and allows for software updates
to be distributed by incorporating them into replacement
batteries.

The power source for the air taser m18 is 8 AA Duracell
Ultra Alkaline batteries or Energizer Nickel Metal Hydride
rechargeable AA batteries, self contained inside a polyethylene
battery tray, with a feature to prevent reverse insertion.
Output: 50,000V 18 Watts, 1.76 Joules per pulse energy
(5-second automatic timing cycle per discharge)

Well there’s that and I will keep working on more Fourth of July specials, who knows what I might come up with.
So stay safe, Thanks a lot!!
Poppajohn

Always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan!