My late mother was a pack rat, or maybe a hoarder. Even though she's been gone a few years, we're still going through some of her old stuff. Recently we found something she picked up somewhere, a free whistle from the Ohio crime victims bureau. I don't know if the the OH AG thought that whistles were really a deterrent to crime, or if it was supposed to just be a novelty item to have the toll free number on it. I have no idea how old it is. When you use it, the tone it makes sounds exactly like the whistle tone you hear in the movies when London bobbies are using a whistle.
If anyone has any idea when they were handed out, let me know. Thanks
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Interesting Ohio AG trinket from ?
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Re: Interesting Ohio AG trinket from ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I thought the AG just investigated crimes "generally" in Ohio. Not really street crimes, but scams and frauds and the like. I took it as "blowing the whistle on a scam" as opposed to any deterrent effect.
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Re: Interesting Ohio AG trinket from ?
The AG's office took great interest and promised many resources when those seven family members were murdered in southeast Ohio about two years ago.rouger10 wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I thought the AG just investigated crimes "generally" in Ohio. Not really street crimes, but scams and frauds and the like. I took it as "blowing the whistle on a scam" as opposed to any deterrent effect.
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Re: Interesting Ohio AG trinket from ?
They also allegedly do with other things, like the crime victims compensation fund, education efforts to prevent crime, etc.rouger10 wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I thought the AG just investigated crimes "generally" in Ohio. Not really street crimes, but scams and frauds and the like. I took it as "blowing the whistle on a scam" as opposed to any deterrent effect.
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You can find similarly shaped whistles on ebay, etc, as "emergency signaling whistles", but those whistles don't produce the same tone that this whistle does. This whistle seems to be specifically designed to mimic the London bobby whistle sound, and it's tone and pitch would probably make a poor emergency signaling device for most areas.
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Re: Interesting Ohio AG trinket from ?
That whistle is specifically designed to alert Mike Dewhine, it's the audio version of commissioner Gordon's bat signal.
Every time you blow it, no matter where you are in Ohio Mike Dewhine cocks his head sideways like a dog.
Every time you blow it, no matter where you are in Ohio Mike Dewhine cocks his head sideways like a dog.
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