Not sure if @agentpoyo got around to reading One Bad Day: Riddler but man oh man did King deliver! King has been hit or miss with me but that book was amazing!
Anthony installed a device, anytime I say “help” and any of it’s synonyms while the UPS/USPS/FedEx peeps are around (even if I mouth them), it tightens the neck chain where I can’t talk but gives enough slack to breath until he gets home from work or his many baseball traveling. Only he has the access code to loosen it again.