More specifically, are they any use?
Browsing for a better wallet I came across a website that sells a ton of security bits and bobs for travellers, with personal alarms being one of them. This made me realise I actually had no idea what one sounds like so I watched a few videos on youtube and, to me, they all sounded like distant burglar alarms.
This further reminded me of a discussion I had with my mum once when she was considering buying one as she was getting older and with me at the time taking more of an interest in self defence, doing some small stuff with JWT etc she felt a bit vulnerable. We came to the same conclusion that they were a bit pointless for 2 main reasons:
1. I don't think most people could identify one if they heard one. I feel like I'd have a lot more faith in them if they had a distinctive sound and it was one people knew about. A lesson at school or something, I dunno. Hell have it shout quotes from Foghorn Leghorn and I'll probably spend more time looking for the source than I would for a generic alarm sound.
2. Related, but my view is most people don't care about alarms. Car alarms, and even burglar ones, are a common enough occurrence that when I hear them in the street I notice few people tend to take much interest in what's causing it. I think that's less about people not caring if crimes are occurring and more to do with being used to them going off for no reason but still.
So I was wondering what peoples' opinions of them are? Since a few people on here also seem to have worked in the security industry as well I'm curious how many people carried them and the faith they had in them?
Browsing for a better wallet I came across a website that sells a ton of security bits and bobs for travellers, with personal alarms being one of them. This made me realise I actually had no idea what one sounds like so I watched a few videos on youtube and, to me, they all sounded like distant burglar alarms.
This further reminded me of a discussion I had with my mum once when she was considering buying one as she was getting older and with me at the time taking more of an interest in self defence, doing some small stuff with JWT etc she felt a bit vulnerable. We came to the same conclusion that they were a bit pointless for 2 main reasons:
1. I don't think most people could identify one if they heard one. I feel like I'd have a lot more faith in them if they had a distinctive sound and it was one people knew about. A lesson at school or something, I dunno. Hell have it shout quotes from Foghorn Leghorn and I'll probably spend more time looking for the source than I would for a generic alarm sound.
2. Related, but my view is most people don't care about alarms. Car alarms, and even burglar ones, are a common enough occurrence that when I hear them in the street I notice few people tend to take much interest in what's causing it. I think that's less about people not caring if crimes are occurring and more to do with being used to them going off for no reason but still.
So I was wondering what peoples' opinions of them are? Since a few people on here also seem to have worked in the security industry as well I'm curious how many people carried them and the faith they had in them?
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