Canned Screams Proved Customs Headache
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) DURBAN, June 26. Australia’s latest export—canned screams—ran into trouble with suspicious customs officials in Durban. They opened a sample can to see if it contained anything besides the advertised 50 tight-packed screams. As a result, the deflated can let out mouse-like squeaks. The gadget, invented by Mr D. North, of Ascot, Brisbane, is sold in many countries as a protection for women against attackers. It looks like a pocket torch in a plastic case four inches long. If a woman holding the gadget clenches her fist, the gadget emits a bloodcurdling shriek. The inventor learned from
studying police records that women victims of attack were often unable to scream because of hands round their throats or over their mouths.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 2
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125Canned Screams Proved Customs Headache Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 2
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