Saxon's Survival Hour #174: Simple Protection Against Muggers

Today's excerpt begins on page 27 of The Survivor Volume 1.

Simple Protection Against Muggers

You have probably seen advertised these goodies which answer yes or no when dangled over a board.
They are usually a rod with a string attached and with a small weight hanging from its end.

To use, you just hold the rod in your hand with your elbow resting on the table and ask the Mystical Prognosticator a question.
If the weight swings in a circle, your answer is yes, but if it swings back and forth the answer is no.
It starts swinging in about a half minute and will definitely swing in a circle or back and forth, depending on your question.

Now, I need my questions answered the same as anybody else.
Wanting to make my own Mystical Prognosticator.
I bought a clear plastic (not white!) Bic pen, some Testor's plastic cement, a one ounce fishing sinker, and some nylon twine.

With a pair of pliers clamped to the metal point, I first pulled out the ink tube.
Then I stuck a 16 inch piece of nylon twine through the pen shell.
I then lapped the end of the twine over the shell opening and inserted the nozzle of the glue tube.
After 3 good squirt of glue in the pen shell and cap.
I put the pen cap over the shell, clamping the end of the twine securely over the end of the shell.
I then snipped off the excess twine protruding out from under the cap.

Next I tied a large knot in the twine just above where the sinker would be to hold it near the end.
Then I put on the sinker and lied a large knot there and also crimped the edge of the sinker hole with a pliers so it would not crowd its way over the knot and fall off.
The finished item should be about 15 inches overall from the sinker to the end of the pen cap.

I carry my Mystical Prognosticator in my jacket or shirt pocket.
A lady can sew on such a pocket or wear only upper garments which have one.

Aside from answering many baffling questions, I find my Mystical Prognosticator is also a guardian against those who might harm me.
All I need do when faced by an aggressor is grasp the pen cap and flick the sinker out at his head.

The human skull is a poor thing and a smartly flicked Mystical Prognosticator will cause the sinker to penetrate the skull with lethal force.

The aggressor would not be aware of his danger until too late, therefore, anyone can use it; even little old ladies, bless them.
Being unaware, the aggressor's skill with a knife or even his reaction time with a gun, would be inadequate to protect him from one carrying a Mystical Prognosticator.

Lest some Liberal scum charge that the Mystical Prognosticator is a concealed weapon, I hasten to say, "pish and tush", is a pet rock, removed from the pocket and hurled into the face of an attacker a concealed weapon?
Rockey is only doing his job.
Is a heavy ring of keys similarly used a concealed weapon?
Nonsense!

The Mystical Prognosticator is a psychic revelator and its use against an attacker could only be regarded as defensive and incidental to its actual purpose.
So don't fear the law in this instance.

Kurt Saxon thought civilization would have collapsed by now.
He spent the majority of his life collecting knowledge of home based business.
His goal was for all his readers to survive at a more comfortable level than those that were less provident.

He knew the importance of communicating at a level folks could understand.
Most of what he has compiled for our benefit can be easily understood by everybody.

He also includes a subtle sense of humor.

You can find the majority of his life's work here.

Hear him read his stories.

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