Before alarm clocks, people were employed to wake workers up with a long stick. A knocker-up was a profession in England and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the late 1920s.
To wake me up for work he needs a bulldozer not a stick!
Ok I sometimes get out of bed for Playboy shootings!
"so much for"workers with a long stick"!!!
During Gene War I the Eastern Bloc created super squirrels to decimate the oak wood industry that the Northern Bloc relied on. The Northern Bloc responded by creating acorns with metal armor and defensive spikes.
It is to prevent the theft of your pocket watch from pickpockets the acorn conceals three spring loaded spikes and when a would be pickpocket pulls on the chain to try to remove the watch from a pocket, the spikes propel and catch in ones clothing.