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Howling Horns. Thousands of manufacturers have pried their way into the beat-the-burglar business. 3M Co., for example, sells a lock containing a small alarm that wails at the touch of a burglar's pick. Pinkerton's is promoting a $449 microwave unit called Minuteman II that rings like a fire siren when anything breaks its circuit. Sears, Roebuck's $99.50 Deluxe Ultrasonic Intruder Alarm blinks on lamps and sets off a shrieking noise if tripped; for a few dollars more a companion attachment outside the house will add a howling horn to the cacophony. Advertisements...
...indictment against Krasher originally was dismissed in Superior Court. but the state appealed, and the Supreme Court upheld the contention that the ram was a burglar tool...
Then Fretwell went up to Oklahoma a month or so ago for a snake hunt, and he brought back what may be the ultimate in burglar protection: seven diamondback rattlesnakes. During business hours, he cages the snakes in the window of his business office, labeled with a sign: DANGER: SNAKES BITE. At night, before going home, he frees the 5-ft. rattlers to glide around the premises. In the morning, armed with a hooked stick and a burlap bag, he rounds them up. There were a few uneasy days when one snake disappeared-it turned up later snoozing...
...down at the San Fernando Valley and were shocked at the sight of fiery blue arcs rising from electrical explosions and plumes of water erupting from broken mains. On the valley floor, Jack Speyer dashed from his second-floor bedroom in Glendale brandishing a baseball bat, certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket in the town of San Fernando, Clerk Marty Federico clung to a metal rail until the awful vibrations stopped...
...creation. But Allingham took a critical look at her man. By Death of a Ghost (1934), Campion had dropped his drawl and the pose of an amateur adventurer and become a professional detective. He acquired a wife and child and a manservant, who had been a cat burglar until he put on weight...