Mainsail
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Tonight I saw an ADT commercial, you know the ones, where some unarmed person or family describes a frightening burglary and the effect it had on them. Then they tell you how safe they feel now that they have an ADT security system installed in their home. Now, I’m not interested in discussing that part of the commercial, but what they claim about burglaries.
According to their ad, there is a burglary every 15 seconds.
OK, whipping out the calculator, I see there are 86,400 seconds in one day. Dividing by 15, that would mean there are 5760 burglaries each day, or 40,320 a week. If I multiply that by 52, the number of weeks in a year, that means (according to them) there are 2,096,640 burglaries a year. I did some googling and there are others making the same 15 seconds claim. It seems like a lot, but I haven’t read anyone’s definition of what, exactly, a burglary is.
Why do I think I should be sitting here with my Mossberg 590A1?
According to their ad, there is a burglary every 15 seconds.
OK, whipping out the calculator, I see there are 86,400 seconds in one day. Dividing by 15, that would mean there are 5760 burglaries each day, or 40,320 a week. If I multiply that by 52, the number of weeks in a year, that means (according to them) there are 2,096,640 burglaries a year. I did some googling and there are others making the same 15 seconds claim. It seems like a lot, but I haven’t read anyone’s definition of what, exactly, a burglary is.
Why do I think I should be sitting here with my Mossberg 590A1?