Posted on 10/28/2009 9:07:12 AM PDT by jazminerose
Why has nobody ripped on the new Brinks/Broadview ads yet? Those commercials are ripe for the plucking. A young woman or vulnerable woman with little girl faces a bad guy who bashes in the door. Here’s what I’d like to see: rather than running away in terror, the woman calmly pulls out her gun and removes the dirt bag’s defective DNA from the collective gene pool.
Then when the Brinks guy calls:
Hello, Ms. Smith, this is Mr. Handsome Brinks guy. Are you all right?
Woman: Yes, we’re fine. Some dirt bag just kicked in my front door.
Brinks Guy: I’m sending help right away!
Woman: Naw, take your time. It’s handled. But can you send Serve Pro?
Now there’s an ad that needs to be made. Those of you with You Tube skills, feel free to go for it, just be sure to give me credit for the idea.
I’m sure there’s something floating around out there in cyberspace someplace. :)
Hubby and I laugh at those stupid commercials! Do people actually think that’s gonna scare somebody off,as bold and bloodthirsty as criminals are nowadays? Shoot the bastards!
Somebody hyas. I saw it. Just can’t remember where.
EVERY time I see that commercial, I think the same exact thing.
When the alarm goes off, I hear “hey, GET THE GUN!” in my head.
There’s a business opportunity there if they had the cajones to do it — bundle firearms training, get-your-permit classes and range time with a home security system.
End to end coverage so to speak.
I think you should e-mail the Saturday Night Live producers with this idea. The Brinks ads are so idiotic, they’re ripe for parody. Even I, who rarely watch TV, have seen many of these, and they’re always preposterous, completely apart from the self-defense issue. Every single one of these ads shows a perp fleeing, and then an offensively-portrayed-as-helpless female quivering in terror as she answers the phone call from Brinks, and then breathing a huge sigh of relief when the Brinks caller assures her that HE has called 911 and “help is on the way”. Women can get to the phone to answer it, but are too stupid to dial 911 themselves? Feminists should be as eager as RKBA activists to see these moronic ads parodied mercilessly.
I’d like to see a skit where the perp who’s just been shot by his female intended-victim lies bleeding on the lawn, spots a Brinks sign planted there, and breathes a sigh of relief (mixed with moans of pain from his wounds), while saying “Oh, I’m so glad this home has Brinks Home Security — I know help will be on the way quickly”.
At our house,the creep wouldn’t even get inside before the German Sheperds started tearing off large chunks.
I have had the same thoughts about those types of ads.
And I love how the woman runs upstairs and without concern for the invader, goes right to the telephone? What about the invader? Wouldn’t he theoretically be going right after her?
The last thing on my mind as an unarmed victim is running to my ringing phone.
My version:
Mom and girl coloring in kitchen
Man seen stalking through the window
As mom gets up to put dishes away man barges in to snatch little girl
Mom opens drawer and before he can get to the little girl she unleashes a torrent of lead life enders into invader.
Phone rings “Hello, this is AlarmCo, are you ok?”
“Yes, we are”
Then there is a nurturing look at her daughter and they hug and as the picture blurs, words slide into focus that says:
“Second Amendment Home Security. You CAN be truely safe.”
And why in the world do they have them run upstairs, both the one with the woman and the one with the woman & little girl, they run upstairs, no escaping up there unless you jump out a window IF the criminal decides to chase you up there.
They need to do one with a gun, that would be worth watching. :)
Nor past my Boxer Shepard mix.
LOL
But that would mean that the “intended victim” failed as well. Unless of course, that sigh of relief is also his last breath.
These home security ads touch women where it counts - the checkbook by means of the heart.
There are many things that are very stupid about these commercials, but they appeal to most women.
An alarm system should only be for alerting you to get your gun and not as the sole means of home defense.
Ever notice how the perp breaking into the house is always a pretty boy white guy?
Another great spoof would have the pretty boy perp and the pretty boy Brinks guy meet up with one another and run off together to San Francisco.
Remember free rock with every purchase. LOL
Yup. Many eons ago when I took the NRA’s Women’s Personal Protection class, one of the instructors said it well; that what we are doing by taking the training & being armed is buying ourselves valuable time. The perp doesn’t expect us to be armed & prepared to defend ourselves & most importantly, we will not panic if we have had sufficient firearms training. That automatically gives us a huge advantage.
I agree. It cracks me up when the woman is running for her life from an armed intruder and stops to answer the phone.
That's like that movie - can't remember the name or who was in it - where the woman is abused by a guy/her husband and she spends like months training in martial arts and working out to be able to take him on hand to hand.
It came on cable once while I had a date over and she wanted to watch it... a few minutes into the movie I stated; "and then she bought a gun and learned to use it, The End,and changed the channel.
Answering the phone is programmed in women, they can’t help it.
I want to do the anti-Brinks commercial:
The perp breaks in and the alarm goes off.
The woman runs upstairs.
Cut to Brinks guy calling on the phone.
“Hello, Mrs Jones, this is Tony from Brinks.....is everything OK?”
Cut to scene of woman with the perpetrator holding a knife to her throat.
“Yes, everything is just fine. I accidentally tripped the alarm.”
Cut to scene of white outline on carpet.
Superimposed graphic of “Brinks Alarm Security - there when you need it”
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