Demand for Window Film Spikes After Terror Alerts

[Newsjock]

Oh good grief, it's Duct Tape Mania all over again.
I wonder who owns stock in the companies mentioned.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35479-2004Aug2.html

By Lauren Bayne Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 3, 2004; Page E01

... Terrorist attacks including the Oklahoma City bombing and those of Sept. 11, 2001, have spawned increased sales of security window film -- clear or tinted sheets made of polyester and sometimes metals -- applied to windows to prevent breaking glass from explosions and burglaries. In the Washington area, companies are struggling to keep up with the high demand for installation, a demand that intensified after this weekend's terror alerts.

Troy Vlahos, vice president of business development with Baltimore's Energy Management Systems, said the company's phone was ringing steadily yesterday morning, after the federal government raised the terror alert level to orange for the financial services sectors in New York, Washington and Newark.

"With the recent news, we've been hearing feverishly from our clients," Vlahos said. "We heard from a world organization in Washington, D.C., one financial institution, a federal agency and an out-of-state military base."

... At Energy Management Systems, sales have increased by more than 60 percent. Hondroulis said there's so much business, he has had to call in workers from other regions to help handle it.

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[cally]

1. I can't believe this

How can anyone think that window film will help protect them. Sigh

[truthisfreedom]

3. breaking, flying glass in explosions is a big factor in injuries,

especially inside buildings. this is legit in an area where bombs are going off, like London in the day.

[Hobarticus]

5. Strips of tape across windows is effective against flying glass, too.

Think the belief is that duct tape plastic on the windows will protect them from poison gas.

[MuseRider]

2. This is very difficult

to believe.

[riverwalker]

4. Remember the duct tape thing

people actually sealed up their homes airtight and suffocated.

[Xithras]

6. That actually happened in Israel

An Arab woman and two of her children were killed when the suffocated in their duct tape sealed room.