Please WAKE UP, Amerika!!!!
"In a recession, executives make quick getaways; At evasive-driving school, business is up, but some question need for such tactics" by Tom Vandyck, Globe Correspondent | December 29, 2008
NORTH KINGSTON, R.I. - I am barreling down a narrow street at 50 miles per hour. A black van comes out of a side street, pulls ahead, and stops. A handful of masked men emerge, wielding automatic weapons.
"Bad guys!" bellows my partner from the passenger seat. "Hard right - go-go-go!"
The car groans as I hit the brakes hard, let off of them just as we're about to ram the van, yank the steering wheel to the right, and simultaneously floor the gas pedal. A split-second later, clearing the van with inches to spare, I steer the Crown Victoria back to the left and roar off for a clean getaway.
Luckily, the guns are imaginary, the van is a row of orange traffic cones, and I am unscathed.
This is the driving range at Advanced Driving and Security Inc., on an out-of-the-way swath of pavement inside Quonset State Airport. Here, bodyguards, corporate security people, law enforcement officers, and military personnel learn high-speed evasive driving techniques.
My partner is Anthony Ricci, Advanced Driving's president, founder, and chief instructor. Business is growing, he said, despite the recession.
"In bad economic times, crime rates go up," he said. "The downside to that is nobody has money for training; the upside to it is everybody needs to train. Those companies that still have money have been coming through the doors, because they feel there's increased crime."
As millions of people have lost their jobs or sizable chunks of their retirement savings, some corporate titans are increasingly worried that angry customers or former workers might try to do them physical harm, Ricci said. "I don't want to get into specific stories, but I am hearing, 'We're worried about our security, because in these times you have to be,' " he said.
Yeah, when the GLOBALISTS are DESTROYING EVERYTHING that is GOOD and DECENT!! I say we HANG a FEW, and if they don't get the message, well... HANG a FEW MORE!!!!!!!!!
At least one security specialist is skeptical of the need for such training.
"We don't have that kind of a problem" at most US companies, said Ira S. Somerson, of Loss Management Consultants Inc., a corporate risk-assessment and security firm in Blue Bell, Penn. If someone wants to harm a corporate executive, he said, "You're not going to try to go out into the street and get him in his limo. That's ridiculous."
That's because AmeriKa is full of pussies! They might get in twouble!!!!
Somerson agrees that risks for executives have increased as the economy has worsened, but says the best tactic is to improve communications, not learn sophisticated driving techniques.
"Know your employees, care about them, deal with them as best as you can, and listen for people who might be in trouble in your place," he said. "If you do that effectively, you won't have a problem."
Then OUTSOURCE and OFFSHORE their jobs while making out like bandits!!!
Regardless, Ricci said, students are eager to learn about handling cars in dire situations. Practice scenarios include carjackings of executives in major US cities and negotiating the crime-riddled streets of Mexico City and the perilous gauntlet that is Iraq....
Oh, so this guy IS WORKING for GLOBALISTS!!!!
Most of his clients are large corporations, which Ricci declines to name. And despite the recession, they are making driver training a priority, he said.
You see, THEY KNOW what is coming dowm, Amurkns!!! That is why the government is preparing to deploy the army in cases of "civil unrest."
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Of course, NOT EVERYONE is hurting, Amurka!
Wal-Mart, whose sales rose 3.4 percent in November, is a big beneficiary of consumers' downscaling, as is McDonald's. Also staying strong in the recession: alcohol sellers....
Well, you can either be miserable or drunk and miserable.
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Aren't you glad that someone is PROFITING off YOUR MISERY, Amurkn?
