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I'm looking through my JEMS magazine, reading the article on "The Vague OD". Page 62 for you whacker subscribers out there.
I come upon this advertisement for "The Big Shears". Compares your run of the mill shears to cutting a paper airplane, and the new deal to cutting a jet. I'm thinking, awesome, I gotta have a pair.. or three...
Now, I have dozens of pairs of the regular shears, all over the place. I use them for every day things, working in the garage, the garden, etc. The quirk to this is, I can get them ANYWHERE.. The pharmacy, Walmart, any catalog, and free from a Drug rep, if I don't mind advertising Viagara, or some new allergy med. The most I've ever paid for a pair of job shears, you may call them Trauma Shears, maybe around five bucks.
I log into the site below, and I click on "purchase online".
:O Whacker Shock. Or is it sticker shock?
$59.99 for a pair of these shears!
I can cut five layers of clothing, three layers of leather, bunker gear, an entire set of aluminum shelves, or a galvanized steel bucket with my Walmart trauma shears, and that cost me $3.99. I did a lot of this on the job, or when I was restoring my ambulances. The worst that would happen, is I'd have to realign the shears. But for $3.99, it really didn't phase me.
Knowing that our jobs aren't that high on the payroll, and that equipment costs an arm and a leg.. because they know we need it. This is almost an insult.. And no, I didn't buy a pair...
What the hell is so special about this product that would make a responder pay sixty bucks for it... and if you want a holster to keep it in, that's going to cost you $98 bucks!
http://www.bigshears.com
I come upon this advertisement for "The Big Shears". Compares your run of the mill shears to cutting a paper airplane, and the new deal to cutting a jet. I'm thinking, awesome, I gotta have a pair.. or three...
Now, I have dozens of pairs of the regular shears, all over the place. I use them for every day things, working in the garage, the garden, etc. The quirk to this is, I can get them ANYWHERE.. The pharmacy, Walmart, any catalog, and free from a Drug rep, if I don't mind advertising Viagara, or some new allergy med. The most I've ever paid for a pair of job shears, you may call them Trauma Shears, maybe around five bucks.
I log into the site below, and I click on "purchase online".
:O Whacker Shock. Or is it sticker shock?
$59.99 for a pair of these shears!
I can cut five layers of clothing, three layers of leather, bunker gear, an entire set of aluminum shelves, or a galvanized steel bucket with my Walmart trauma shears, and that cost me $3.99. I did a lot of this on the job, or when I was restoring my ambulances. The worst that would happen, is I'd have to realign the shears. But for $3.99, it really didn't phase me.
Knowing that our jobs aren't that high on the payroll, and that equipment costs an arm and a leg.. because they know we need it. This is almost an insult.. And no, I didn't buy a pair...
What the hell is so special about this product that would make a responder pay sixty bucks for it... and if you want a holster to keep it in, that's going to cost you $98 bucks!
http://www.bigshears.com
