9 Safety Tips to Protect Yourself

You may have seen the following before but it's worth seeing again. We need to remind ourselves of ways to be safe or we get distracted by life and leave ourselves vulnerable to criminals.

The following is a good reminder and I suggest you forward it on to your loved ones and friends and make a copy for your kids to see.

When under stress, often our mind freezes up. These reminders, if read more than once, will imprint on your brain and hopefully help you create some GOOD SAFETY HABITS FOR 2009!

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, use it!

2. Learned this from a tourist guide in New Orleans: If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you.... chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse.
RUN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. 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.

4. 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.) DON'T DO THIS! This is the perfect opportunity for a predator to get in on the passenger side. As soon as you get into your car, lock the doors and leave.
A.) If someone is in your car with a gun DO NOT DRIVE OFF. Instead, gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car. As soon as the car crashes bail out and run.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:
A.) Be aware: look around you. Look in your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat.
B.) If you are parked next to a large van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most attackers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the victim tries to get into their car.
C.) 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.

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. This is especially true at NIGHT!)

7. If a 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, Preferably in a zig -zag pattern.

8. Women often times try to be sympathetic. Don't. It may put you in harm's way. Ted Bundy 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" into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when his victims were abducted.

9. If you are home alone at night and hear strange noises, do not answer/open the door. Instead, call the police and Wait for them to arrive. There have been recent reports of women hearing a baby's cry outside when they are home alone at night, which is suspected to be linked to recent serial killings.
One more reminder: we are all 100% responsible to our well being and safety. MAKE SMART THINKING CHOICES.

Be Safe!

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