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When it comes to gratuitous fear-mongering, it's hard to beat the litany of TV ads from Brinks Home Security, now operating under the name Broadview Security. So, it was nice to see these melodramatic doses of suburban paranoia getting a proper beatdown from America's funniest feminist, Sarah Haskins. In the newest installment of her Current TV series about marketing clichés (pardon Current's 30-second pre-roll ad), Haskins walks us through the many "rape fables" told in Broadview's ads, which inevitably include a guy kicking in a door with all the cat-burglar finesse of Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
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