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Whistles as a deterrent against rape and assault?
By Liza Cooper | October 30, 2009
Many people advocate carrying a whistle or personal alarm with you. A personal alarm is a noisemaker, usually battery-operated, that makes a loud, piercing noise when it is set off. Lung powered whistles, often called “rape whistles” also fall into this noisemaker category.
However, most experts feel that having a noisemaker on your person is an over-rated concept. When you blow a whistle or set off a siren, you are banking on someone coming to your aid and that is not as likely to happen as you might hope.
The act of activating the alarm or blowing a whistle can take anywhere from 2 to 20 seconds, but the outcome of an attack is usually decided within the first 8 to 10 seconds. So, if the noise doesn’t work, you may be out of time before you can try other options.
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