Locksmithing and Security

Parents are funny beasts. Far more children are harmed by family members — usually mum or dad — than by strangers. Yet parents are obsessed by the threat of harm from strangers. One mother at our junior school ran a campaign to stop photographs being taken at sports day in case a picture of her child ended up on the internet inflaming some perverted stranger to start stalking the poor girl (by “poor girl” I mean with regard to the mother she’s saddled with).

Furthermore, this irrational fear, ceaslessly stoked up by our wonderful press, is causing fewer and fewer children to walk to school, contributing greatly to the 1 in 3 risk (stranger harm is more like a 1 in 1,000,000 risk) of chronic ill health (and it’s contributing greatly to the number of women floundering around in their bloody chelsea tractors).

(It does seem to be a predominantly female lunacy, this desire to drive around in vehicle that’s far too big for their road and their driving skill. The male lunacy tends more towards driving around in a vehicle that’s too small and too powerful for their limited driving skill.)