Posted April 24, 2016 10:57 pm by Comments

By James Rummel

elderly security guard

I was working as a security guard back in the late 1980’s.

The must-have high-tech gadget at the time, which every motorist lusted after, was the radar detector.

The various models retailed for a couple of hundred dollars in 1980’s money, the manufacturers kept trying to slim them down and make them ever smaller. Handy enough to slip into a jacket pocket, it took but two or three seconds to smash a window and rip the device from atop the dashboard. Many a driver had a sorrowful tale of woe to relate after they left their car ” … for just a few minutes …” as that ran an errand.

smashed car window

I was working for a rather large regional bank at the time, and the powers-that-be had decreed that the guards were to be armed. This wasn’t an issue for me, except for the fact that armed security guards were entitled to a bonus. Hey, more money for the same work!

Except for one month, when we started to experience a rash of smash-and-grabs out in the remote sections of the parking lots. …Read the Rest

Source:: Hell In a Handbasket

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