# I'm so sick of those Brinks Security Ads **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672 "2010-01-20T06:14:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/41 "2010-01-20T19:54:31Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I thought the guy breaking down her door was supposed to be her crazy ex. (I.e., she was talking about the break up as a way of explaining the crazy break in.) Besides, what’s so bad about dating again if you’ve just broken up with someone? > ETA: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkr0-nVwmQY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkr0-nVwmQY) Here’s the ad. It is her ex that breaks in, not the guy she’s dating currently. We’re not talking about that one. This one: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHIxdU723g&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHIxdU723g&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/42 "2010-01-20T20:04:49Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Shouldn’t we have some burglars who are a wee more subtle? Around here, most of the more publicized break-in-and-rape incidents happen to 90 year old Polish ladies that are holdouts in a neighborhood that has long since turned into a ghetto. Whether the break-ins are dramatic door busters or not, I don’t know. I do think it caters to the worst fears of the paranoid helicopter moms that have been watching a bit too much of the Lifetime Network. I’ve never noticed where and when the alarm ads appear. Just as pharmaceutical ads appear during nightly network newscasts, stockbroker and high end financial service ads appear during Sunday morning political interview and panel shows, and ads for fly-by-night career training schools and Cricket cell phones appear on independent stations during the daytime, when do the alarm ads appear the most? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/43 "2010-01-20T20:19:54Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > We’re not talking about that one. > This one: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHIxdU723g&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHIxdU723g&feature=related) I know. I was talking about that one, too, and then I switched over to addressing the one about the woman on a date. The girl saying she’s had a bad break up was the one on a date, and then her crazy ex came. The woman who had hosted the party was the one who had the guy she just met break in. ETA: The stuff I was saying to **elmwood** was the one about the date. The stuff I was saying to you and **MPB** was the post house party. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/44 "2010-01-20T20:28:46Z")
The ads also exaggerate how easy it is to kick in a door. Most doors have a deadbolt and a regular lock. It’s going to take several kicks to get it open. That gives the people inside more warning and time to call 911 and arm themselves. If you watched _Cops_ or other real cop shows, they use a metal pole with handles to bust open doors. Even the cops don’t kick them in because they can injure themselves. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/45 "2010-01-20T20:33:35Z")
[quote=“Zebra, post:6, topic:525672”] I want the bad guy from the Brinks commercial to break in to the Free Credit Report band’s house and murder them all, even his dream girl.[/QUOT I have to say thank you for this, A great laugh in a otherwise crappy day. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/46 "2010-01-20T20:54:11Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > My dad was career military and a member of the bases Rod & Gun Club. My mom went with him shooting. \*\*Before long, she was out shooting him on the range. \*\* Wouldn’t she get arrested for that? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/47 "2010-01-20T21:13:06Z")
😉 I should have worded that better. I meant she earned more target points than my dad. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/48 "2010-01-20T21:13:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Wouldn’t she get arrested for that? No, the way he was dressed, he was obviously asking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/49 "2010-01-20T23:19:02Z")
Quoth **Wheeljack** : > [@](#): > > Those commercials are ridiculous. If an armed intruder breaks into my home, the last thing I’m going to do is retreat from my hidey-hole to answer the phone. Isn’t a phone the very first thing you should put in a hidey-hole room? Even without the security company, you’re going to want to be able to call 911 yourself. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/50 "2010-01-20T23:19:10Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I got news for Brinks. Women aren’t dainty and helpless anymore. My dad was career military and a member of the bases Rod & Gun Club. My mom went with him shooting. Before long, she was out shooting him on the range. I pity anyone stupid enough to kick in her door. These days women are taking self defense classes and carrying mace. They aren’t going to faint at the first sign of trouble. I wouldn’t shoot against my wife. :eek: Didn’t S&W, about 25-30 years ago, bring out a line “especially for the ladies” with engraved and enameled roses on the nickel-plated frame? She didn’t like that idea. She likes her guns like she likes her men: big, black, and scary looking. With me all she got was big. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/51 "2010-01-21T13:27:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Quoth **Wheeljack** :Isn’t a phone the very first thing you should put in a hidey-hole room? Even without the security company, you’re going to want to be able to call 911 yourself. I’m thinking less hidey-hole-room and more closest-object-I-can-hide-behind… which is funny, because without a landline the security company would have to call my cell, thus revealing my location. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/52 "2010-01-21T20:49:45Z")
I love the way the burgler sneaks around and SEES the woman and the child. Now 99.9% of all burglers would say “Gee someone’s in the house, I’ll come back later when it’s empty.” But what does he do, he KICKS the door in, Why? Because he’s not a burgler but a child molester and rapist. You see that’s the real message, men want to rape little kids and women not burgle their homes. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/53 "2010-01-21T22:13:54Z")
Actually, I have been told that a good many rapes start out as burglaries, but it turns out the house was occupied. And, to give the Broadview folks a bit of credit, they are (marginally) addressing the non-stranger rape meme with the stalking ex-boyfriend one. I know most rapes are not from strangers, but I doubt many people buy a burglar alarm to keep themselves safe from date rape. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/54 "2010-01-21T22:20:39Z")
But who barges in in the middle of the day when they already know someone’s home? That’s just asking for trouble. And why is the guy in the middle of the day dressed in all black? Conspicuous much?! ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/55 "2010-01-21T22:32:39Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Actually, I have been told that a good many rapes start out as burglaries, but it turns out the house was occupied. > > And, to give the Broadview folks a bit of credit, they are (marginally) addressing the non-stranger rape meme with the stalking ex-boyfriend one. > > I know most rapes are not from strangers, but I doubt many people buy a burglar alarm to keep themselves safe from date rape. > > Regards, > Shodan That’s a good point, but as someone else mentioned on here, if a jealous ex-boyfriend is crazy enough to kick open a door and has rape on his mind, he’s not likely to be deterred by an alarm. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/56 "2010-01-22T03:57:36Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > That’s a good point, but as someone else mentioned on here, if a jealous ex-boyfriend is crazy enough to kick open a door and has rape on his mind, he’s not likely to be deterred by an alarm. I think there WAS one with a stalker ex-boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672/57 "2010-01-22T05:07:44Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Sick of getting prank calls asking to speak to “Jar-Jar”? Hee. 😃 > [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Indeed, they’re now “Broadview.” > > So named because they watch over the broads, I guess. I’m sort of surprised no one at the company noticed that…or maybe they did. My security company installed an intercom in my house; if the alarm is set off, they contact me by intercom rather than by phone. I’ve only had them call my cell once; I had managed to mess up the alarm on the way out the door, and it triggered something. They also call periodically to conduct some kind of system test. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-sick-of-those-brinks-security-ads/525672.md?page=2)