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Safety Tips For Women
There's two parts to this. Make sure you read all of it, it could
be very important someday. If you see this and you're a guy, please
pass it on to all your female friends, your sister, your mom,
your wife or your girlfriend.
To start, here are a couple of safety tips for anyone:
- I learned from my children's karate classes that the elbow
is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough
to use it, do!
- If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out
the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start
waving like crazy. The driver won't see you but everybody else
will. This has saved lives.
Last night I attended a personal safety workshop, and it jolted
me. It was given by an amazing man, Pat Malone, who has been a
body guard for famous figures like Farrah Fawcett and Sylvester
Stallone. He works for the FBI and teaches police officers and
Navy SEALS hand-to-hand combat. This man has seen it all, and
knows a lot. He focused his teachings to us on HOW TO AVOID BEING
THE VICTIM OF A VIOLENT CRIME. He gave us some statistics about
how much the occurrences of random violence have escalated over
the recent years, and it's terrible. Something like 99% of us
will be exposed to, or become a victim of, a violent crime. Here
are some of the most important points that I got out of his presentation:
The three reasons women are easy targets for random acts of
violence are:
- Lack of Awareness - You MUST know where you are and what's
going on around you.
- Body Language - Keep your head up, swing your arms, stand
straight up.
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time - DO NOT walk alone in an alley or
drive in a bad neighborhood at night.
Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,
eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or
making a list, etc). DO NOT THIS! The predator will be watching
you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in the
passenger side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to
go. AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.
A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot,
or parking garage:
- Look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side
floor, and in the back seat. If you are parked next to a big
van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers
attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the
women are attempting to get into their cars.
- Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle,
and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat
nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or
work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out.
- IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid
than dead.)
Additional safety tips:
- ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. Stairwells
are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot.
- If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control,
ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target)
4 in 100 times. And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a
vital organ. RUN!
- As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic...STOP IT!
It may get you raped or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer,
was a good looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on
the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane,
or a limp, and often asked for "help" getting into his vehicle
or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.
Be Aware and Be Suspicious:
Pat Malone told us the story of his daughter, who came out of
the mall and was walking to her car when she noticed two older
ladies in front of her. She saw a police car come towards her
and the cops said hello. She also noticed that all eight handicap
spots in the area were empty. As she neared her car, she saw a
man a few rows over calling to her for help. He wanted her to
close his passenger side door. He was sitting in the back on the
driver's side, and said he was handicapped. He continued calling,
until she turned and headed back to the mall and then he began
cursing at her. She wondered why he didn't ask the two older ladies
or the policemen for help, and why he was not parked in any of
the empty handicap spots. As she got back to the mall, two male
friends of hers were exiting, and as she told them the story and
turned to point at the car, the man was getting out of the back
seat into the front, and the car sped away. DON'T GET CAUGHT IN
THIS TRAP.
About a month ago, there was a woman standing by the mall entrance
passing out flyers to all the women going in. The woman had written
the flyer herself to tell about an experience she had, so that
she might warn other women. The previous day, this woman had finished
shopping, went out to her car and discovered that she had a flat
tire. She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the
flat. A nice man dressed in business suit and carrying a briefcase
walked up to her and said, "I noticed you're changing a flat tire.
Would you like me to take care of it for you?" The woman was grateful
for his offer and accepted his help. They chatted amiably while
the man changed the flat, and then put the flat tire and the jack
in the trunk, shut it and dusted his hands off. The woman thanked
him profusely, and as she was about to get in her car, the man
told her that he left his car around on the other side of the
mall, and asked if she would mind giving him a lift to his car.
She was a little surprised and she asked him why his car was on
other side. He explained that he had seen an old friend in the
mall that he hadn't seen for some time and they had a bite to
eat and visited for a while; he got turned around in the mall
and left through the wrong exit, and now he was running late and
his car was clear around on the other side of the mall. The woman
hated to tell him "no" because he had just rescued her from having
to change her flat tire all by herself, but she felt uneasy. Then
she remembered seeing the man put his briefcase in her trunk before
shutting it and before he asked her for a ride to his car. She
told him that she'd be happy to drive him around to his car, but
she just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. She said
she would only be a few minutes; he could sit down in her car
and wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be. She hurried
into the mall, and told a security guard what had happened; the
guard came out to her car with her, but the man had left. They
opened the trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took it down
to the police station. The police opened it to look for ID so
they could return it to the man. What they found was rope, duct
tape, and knives. When the police checked her "flat" tire, there
was nothing wrong with it; the air had simply been let out. It
was obvious what the man's intention was, and obvious that he
had carefully thought it out in advance. The woman was blessed
to have escaped harm. How much worse it would have been if she
had children with her and had them wait in the car while the man
fixed the tire, or if she had a baby strapped into a car seat.
Or if she'd gone against her judgment and given him a lift.
I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know:
It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another
candle.Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded
that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it....better
safe than sorry.
PLEASE BE SAFE AND NOT SORRY! JUST A WARNING TO ALWAYS BE ALERT
AND USE YOUR HEAD!!!
Pass this along to every woman you have access to. Never let
your guard down.
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