By far the most common type of attack you will face in a bar brawl, streetfight or road rage attack is against multiple wild punches being thrown at your head. Most fights are determined by attacks to the head, so protecting your head is the most important thing! Lets face it, this is likely the […]

Although many people truly enjoy their jobs, more and more people are literally stuck in jobs that are neither satisfying or allow them to “get ahead”. In America, 25% of workers work more than 40 hours a week, and over 20% of them work at least 60 hours a week. That is far more than […]

In these tough economic times, it is little wonder why people would be more concerned than ever with hiding their money. With rising unemployment rates, soaring levels of property crime, higher taxation, more government intrusion into our lives, etc., it is no surprise that people are hoarding their hard earned money. Besides using home safes […]

World markets are going through an unprecedented crisis right now at a rate that most leading economists cannot even understand. There are record numbers of people facing home foreclosure because of loosing their jobs. Most Americans are a few paychecks away from loosing their homes. Renters are not faring any better either as economic uncertainty […]

With looming economic uncertainly worldwide, due to the USA market meltdown and credit crisis, many more people are one paycheck away from disaster. At this point, credit has become harder to get and job uncertainty is that much more significant.
I got to thinking what it would take to survive, or cope with an economic crash. […]

A door person works at a second job in the local pub on the weekend for cash under the table, a plumber fixes a leak in a home off of the books, a cab driver works some hours off of the books, a bartender declares only as many tips as she has to. All of […]

For many people faced with a looming real estate mortgage foreclosure on their home or some sort of financial ruin, like their job relocating to another country, maybe the easiest way out is to put their keys through the mailbox and walk away and start again as someone else, somewhere else. There is a little […]

The rise in highly addictive street drugs in most communities in North America and Europe is directly to blame for the rising rate of residential burglary. On the black market, your valuables usually fetch between 10% to 20% of their worth, ensuring the drug user has to commit a steady stream of burglaries to maintain […]

There are no single causes of carjacking, but the most common motivation for it is usually tied to the drug trade. Either the car jacker wants your vehicle to use in a robbery to obtain drugs, or they are already high on drugs and looking for “kicks”. It is a crime of opportunity, and therefore […]

The two enemies of any burglar are time and visibility. The longer and harder you can make their job of entering your home and removing your property, the closer you are to being “burglar proof”. Of course in reality, there is no such thing as a 100% burglar proof home, you should still pursue this […]