Posted on 11/20/2020 4:51:28 AM PST by RoosterRedux
It’s body men for the everyman, not just high-profile politicians and celebs. I decided to test it out and hired a guard to meet me outside my apartment, on a busy corner in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. It was like booking an Uber, except in this case, I got a few pre-screening calls from HQ about any known threats (no) and whether I wanted my guy to be armed (yes).
It felt top secret and cool, even though I knew our day’s itinerary would hardly approach “Zero Dark Thirty.”
My guard, a 6-foot-1 dude named Ira, had spent most of his career in the NYPD Intelligence Bureau, a job which included protecting presidents, foreign dignitaries, the dalai lama and the pope. So, as the former treasurer of my eighth grade class, I felt reasonably safe.
Ira’s services cost $87.50 for three and a half hours, which was half off thanks to promotional pricing.
I let Ira know that we’d be having a low-key day: We’d start off by grabbing coffee with my roommate in tow. Stoop dwellers, nannies with strollers and baristas certainly took note of his dark sunglasses and commemorative NYPD lapel pin.
“He’s a bodyguard for normal people,” I explained to the barista, who seemed disappointed there wasn’t a true entourage-worthy customer in the store.
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So it’s come to third world solutions for the Rotten Apples problems.
So his regular rate is $60 an hour.
The Uber of bodyguards on call for well-paid but unknown NYers.
“American Dystopia, Part 3: San Francisco residents turn to private police to keep neighborhoods from imploding”. Tucker Carlson 1/8/20
That’s what they do in Central America.
Pretend cop strong arms protection money and watches a neighborhood.
Even the Pollo shops have armed guards.
Tint all your car windows and stop for no one.
Yea, way to New Yorkers, you retro dumbasses.
Thank God I live in the mountains. But I see a dark storm coming on the horizon.
So this is how men can profit off of all those karens out there? Or is it women now pay men to go on a date and pack heat???
Brilliant- supply and demand.
"Ira’s services cost $87.50 for three and a half hours, which was half off thanks to promotional pricing."
In NYC, off-duty and retired cops have an effective monopoly on the bodyguard business.
This is why they are so adamantly opposed to mere civilians getting CCW. It’s a lucrative business which they do NOT want to give up.
Yea, but will he take a bullet for his clients?
I wonder if they can be hired as Trump Rally escorts.
There Uber, now there’s Uberman.
I’d rather hire dp after a late night FR bender. LOL!
For the poor people there is a new spray. Ode of Skunk- guaranteed to keep people away from you.
I am all in favor of this, for the same reason I like concealed carry firearms. Think of them as “watching your back”, against a criminal or premeditated attack, or a spontaneous attack by a mentally ill person or Democrat (pardon the redundancy.)
Importantly, if the threat is armed, it is wise to have a female bodyguard, as they are often ignored by armed assailants who tend to focus only on males. This gives the bodyguard a big advantage in a gunfight.
Such bodyguards should be common outside of Trump or conservative events, as escorts through the gauntlet of Antifa-BLM fanatics.
That’s a hella deal for 3 hours. Sadly a sign we are turning into a south american chithole. That’s what they do in those countries.
exactly, seems way too cheap to me ..
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