Ted snickered. Sometimes his sister, Lori, had the craziest ideas. Ted was at Lori’s home helping her to put her affairs back into order after her husband’s death. Today, he was photographing her valuables for insurance purposes. Lori had taken out a new policy and she wanted to keep her own records. After Ted was finished with the pictures and preparing to head home, Lori asked him to wait — she had two more items to photograph. She then pulled her wedding and engagement ring from inside the flower pot that held her Easter Lilies — the same pot that held Poinsettias last December. Ted was humored and asked her about her choice of hiding places.

Lori generally kept the flower pot sitting on the kitchen counter when it contained flowers,and on the top shelf next to other empty pots when it didn’t. Ted told her that he thought the flower pot safe was an odd place for her to keep her most beloved possessions. But, there they sat, right out in the open.

But Lori explained that the flower pot safe was, in fact, the safest place for her treasures. So safe, that her rings had recently eluded a burglar and a dishonest cousin. The burglar had found the silverware and the cousin recently took a fair amount of cash out of Lori’s wall safe. The rings were not touched. She asked Ted, "Where would a burglar or a thief look first?" After thinking about it for a moment, Ted had to admit that if he were a burglar, he wouldn’t even think to look for valuables in a flower pot. He was pretty certain that a burglar would go through drawers and closets, or break into any obvious safe he or she came across.

As Ted drove home, he thought about the various reasons a flower pot safe, or any diversion safe, would be useful. He lived in a low crime area, but he had a lot of company and so did his three teenage boys. You’d like to believe that you can trust everyone, but the reality is that you simply can’t.

Once he arrived home, Ted ordered two flower pot safes of his own.

Should you?

For your safety, Mitch McDonald

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Unlike most people, Leslie hated quitting time. She wasn’t a workaholic or anything, but ever since her company moved its office to save on expenses, she dreaded the thought of the four- block walk to the parking garage.

Winter made things worse. On top of feeling cold, Leslie couldn’t stand to walk down the street in the dark. In the middle of December, four in the afternoon may as well have been four in the morning.

Adding insult to injury, her office manager had banned anything that could be perceived as a weapon from the workplace. Leslie couldn’t bring her pepper spray to work, nor could she invest in a stun gun. Showing up at the office with anything she could use to defend herself would get her fired.

When the New Year rolled around, Leslie vowed to get control of things. She liked her job - and her paycheck - way too much to just give it up. She thought about taking a martial arts course, but that would eat up more time out of her day.

Surfing the web for ideas, she stumbled across one name again and again.

Frank Cucci.

Wondering why so many people were talking about Frank’s revolutionary self-defense system, she discovered that he picked up some amazing techniques after spending over a decade as a Navy SEAL. Behind enemy lines, you can’t afford to use something that doesn’t work - the first time.

Watching Frank’s video, she studied how he blended moves from different disciplines. Nobody else would even think to mix up Bruce Lee’s fighting moves with straight up roadhouse brawling. It’s what works, Leslie realized, and she didn’t have to be a star martial artist to make it work for her.

A few weeks later, Leslie’s co-workers complained about stuff missing from their desks. She didn’t think too much about it until she took the stairwell to the lunchroom - and stumbled into an office thief!

All this time, she had worried about that awful walk to the garage, when the real threat was right in her own building!

Leslie didn’t waste any time, since Frank’s visceral learning style put all those key moves into "muscle memory." Before he could reach for a weapon, that thief found himself totally subdued - by a five foot two inch tall office worker!

And for the first time in months, Leslie walked to her car feeling totally confident in her surroundings.

Yours in safety, Mitch McDonald

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