A simple tool stashed in your glove compartment could be the difference between life and death.
Car thieves, as well as those who break into cars to steal stuff, have a variety of ways they can get inside a locked vehicle, including through a door or window.
But what if you suddenly have to get out of your car and can’t get the door open? Perhaps the car is partially or fully submerged in water, or an accident has rendered the door useless. Well, there’s a handy dandy keychain that could save your life. And it’s priced at around $10.
Here are some of the ResQMe tool’s features:
- Spring-loaded head effortlessly smashes the vehicle’s side windows with only 12 pounds of force. They say that if you can handle a small bowling ball, you can do this.
- Razor-sharp blade slices through jammed seat belts and is safely surrounded by plastic casing. Cut at a 45-degree angle from top to bottom.
- The clip detaches from the body, allowing the user to quickly access the blade, and doubles as a device to hang ResQMe from a keychain or other accessible area.
- Originally offered exclusively to fire, paramedic and police organizations, but now available to the public.
- Contains an imprintable area suitable for personalization with user or company name.
- Weighs just over one-half an ounce and is small enough to be carried just about anywhere.
Check out this article from SurvivalLife.com titled, “This Keychain Could Save Your Life.” Make sure to click on the ResQMe Emergency Tool link and watch the 30-second demonstration video. I’m wondering if you own the ResQMe tool or anything like it? If so, please tell me how it works and whether you’ve ever had to use it during an emergency. Was it reliable, or did it let you down? Have you found any uses for it other than the ones I’ve mentioned or are in the video? Looking forward to hearing from you about this.
Great tool, I have been EDC’ing one on my key chain for years. They should come with instructions so people do not get hurt using it. In my training as a fire fighter I had training with a window punch. We were taught to only use it at the edge of the window so your hand hit the window frame when the window broke, so your hand did not go through the glass as it broke cutting the user.
The glovebox is NOT the best place to put ANY kind of tool like this. . If your seatbelt ratchets down, you won’t be able to reach it. Your keychain is good, or if you have a larger emergency tool, in your center console, or velcroed to your carpet near the center of your car. That way it won’t fly out of reach in an accident. (And not your door pocket, as it might get crushed in an accident.)
I have one ResQMe tool on a key chain. I also have one on my safety harness for hunting from a treestand. It looked like a good tool in case I need to cut straps to relieve pressure and lower myself in a controlled manner.
Okay you got me, I’m interested! Where do I find this Key chain? I tried the link, it didn’t work.
thank you for the info
In reference to US Gov stock piling ammo,and unavailability of ammo. It has been said that each Dept of the US GOV has stocked 22 long rifle ammo. For instance FBI ordering 450 million rounds, AG Dept several thousand, USPD several trhousand rounds to name a few. What would these dept’s use 22lr ammo for? By ordering this vol they make them less avail to the general public, this convoluted strategy does not surprise me with this Admin.
I usually think highly of your information- it’s the theatrics that turn me off and the looong time getting to the point. However, regarding FEMA inquiring about emergency food stores: isn’t that what we would EXPECT them to be doing? Having information about where these stores are and could be accessed in case of need. If they were stockpiling it you would find fault with that too.
I feel like you are going overboard in this one. They should know who can deliver in case of emergency and where and how.
You need to do some more research on this. My husband is a hunter and ammunition has all but disappeared off the shelves. This was also FEMA’s work with the blessings of the White House. Recently, take a look at what the White House has placed on FEMA right this minute…1000’s of illegal children crossing the southern border states, walking into our country, demanding asylum. My heart goes out to these children because they truly need to be protected from the marauding bands of terrorists/drug lords in their home countries; however, sending these children for the U.S. to deal with is not the answer. Our borders should have been closed by now — something this clueless president refuses to do. So now FEMA has 1000’s upon 1000’s of children to house, feed, clothe and treat medically. I would understand FEMA looking for food now, but this has been going on since obama took office, silently and stealthly.
No, FEMA is only acting out what the president wants them to do. Perhaps you should discuss this with the president himself? He has a plan that no one else in this country seems to know about…except FEMA…and YOU need to be aware of what that is. Because I know for a fact that if Martial Law were declared, FEMA could enter your home and take anything they need from it, including your food and water…and leave you with nothing. So, please do the research and see what can happen if FEMA is given that power…and bho has come close a couple times to call Martial Law in a state because a U.S. resident refused to “obey” an out of control ridiculous law that “bho created” — that took away the owner’s access to his very own land. FEMA can be good, but in the wrong hands, it can be a danger to us all!
And, for everyone’s information…FEMA already knows where the stockpiles of food are. They just do not know which individual has stockpiled the most food and water, etc. That is the info they so desperately want to know. There are more than enough warehouses of food, water, provisions, etc. that FEMA already has. But in a National emergency, they want to know who else (private citizen) has more of what they need so they can pilfer ALL that they want. These has gone far beyond power of the government…it has now reached into our personal domains, thinking they have the right to take as they need. They do not. I, for one, am willing to share with my family and immediate friends, but I will not open my home stockpiles for the government to walk in and take. They should have been stockpiling these supplies long before now and if they haven’t, chalk it up to poor planning and poor leadership.
I don’t know where to buy one.
You can get these at any big store like Fred Meyers in the West coast. Hardware stores like Home Depot/Lowes. I’ve noticed that the quick disconnect is too loose so I dont keep mine on my key chain but in a pocket in my car.
Try Amazon. I just checked there – they come in every color, plus 2-packs.
Frank.What’s up with the if you blab stuff. I have read and agreed with most of what U R saying.Please do not threaten a friend, and a customer. Richard Smith
Does the tool happen to include a small hammer to break a window like I’ve seen on some tools?
Robert,
The ResQMe tool goes on your keyring….with a yank it separates from it’s clip that stays on your keyring…it does not or I would not recommend putting it any where else in the car besides on your keyring…because in an emergency panick will keep one from reaching the glove box and then fumbling for the tool….
I have not used it in a real emergency but practice with it often to imprint the movements in my subconscious so in an emergency it will be automatic to reach, grab break and cut….
Frank
These have been on my family’s key-chains for 10yrs. now.
Glad we haven’t needed them, but nice to know they’re always in the same place all the time when driving.
Got mine at Brigade Quartermasters.
You don’t say where to purchase one of these handy gadgets.
The ResQMe Emergency tool is one that I have carried on my key chain for several years.
The chief of our volunteer fire department (Chief Randy Schmelz), in his wisdom, gave the ResQMe tool as a small Christmas gift to each of the members of the department several
years ago. As a volunteer firefighter, I have used the tool on MVC’s (motor vehicle collisions)
and it has worked reliably and exactly the simple way it is designed to.
On a personal note. I was on a short trip from my home in Texas to visit a friend in Tulsa, OK.
While traveling east bound on the I-44 Turnpike between OKC and Tulsa, I witnessed a vehicle rollover on the west bound side. I stopped to render assistance and the ResQMe tool was invaluable in that incident in cutting the seat belt (which was stuck) in order to assist an adult male to physically raise up far enough so that I could remove a small child he had trapped beneath him.
Since we never know when something like this may happen, I strongly recommend EVERY driver carry this tool on their key chain, just as I do.
God bless.
Jim McGregor,
Granbury, TX
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then leave it on your keychain when you know your going to be around water.
I can’t reach my glove compartment even when I take my arm out of the seatbelt!