Safety Tips for you.

[judy]

After reading these 9 crucial tips, forward them to someone you care about. It never hurts to be careful in this crazy world we live in.

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

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 LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are eve! r 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.

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!) The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on 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.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

A.) Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat.
B.) 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.
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.
IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

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 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, Preferably in a zig-zag pattern!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP. 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” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

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9. Another Safety Point: Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last, and she called the police because it was late and she thought it was weird. The police told her “Whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.”

The lady then said that it sounded like the baby had crawled near a window, and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over. The policeman said, “We already have a unit on the way, whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.” He told her that they think a serial killer has a baby’s cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it, but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby’s cries outside their doors when they’re home alone at night.

Please pass this on and DO NOT open the door for a crying baby —-This e-mail should probably be taken seriously because the Crying Baby theory was mentioned on America’s Most Wanted this past Saturday when they profiled the serial killer in Louisiana.

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. I was going to send this to the ladies only, but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it onto them, as well.

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 and it’s better to be safe than sorry.

[cherie]

Judy,

While I think that most of the tips you give are sound, I have to question the statistical assertions (such as “most serial killers” do xyz thing), and the crying baby is an out-and-out urban legend.? No such serial killer has been caught, and the “crying baby” lure has not figured in any serial killer investigation.? Including the LA serial killer profiled on America’s Most Wanted.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/crybaby.htm

There are plenty of things for women to be afraid of, the sound of a baby crying on your porch isn’t one of them.

x
Cherie

Who recalls vividly the time her Aunt scared the bejesus out of her Mom with the “gang members murdering women/kids abducted from Wal-Mart” legend…

[judy]

I was simply passing on something that was sent me. I think it is helpful. As for the crying baby bit, if I am home alone at night and I hear a crying baby moving around my windows I’m calling 911 and staying put. If you are in the same situation and choose to open your door wide and walk around in the dark alone looking for the source, that is your business.  🙂

[darkhairedkaren]

Yeek!  Those Snopes stories are scary (even if they are urban legends).

It’s pretty wise not to venture out alone at night, period.

[cherie]

Actually, if I heard a crying baby outside my windows at night I would do the obvious thing (as I’m sure you would, Judy) and look out the window.? No need to go calling 911 if it’s your neighbor’s kid standing there!

I did not mean to seem to be jumping on you Judy, it’s just that passing these things along can sometimes do more harm than good, by a) needlessly alarming people, and b) giving misleading information about what to do in dangerous situations.? Most of the tips in the email message you passed along seem like good common sense.

xo
Cherie

[Delicious_Jess]

The two I always remember is if you’re kidnapped pull off a button and poke it in the cars key barrel so the napper can’t get away with you (he’d more than likely klonk you over the head for doing it though, they fail to mention that!) and touch everything, poke your hair strands down the sides of seats and leave finger prints everywhere in all the places your napper would fail to clean.

I can’t stand chain mails. They may have started out good willed but they do tick me off. They do work on the theory better paranoid than dead but to be honest if you’re paranoid about everything they say you should be then you may aswell be dead. eg No: 8 goes against No: 3.

Still, some very good points. Thank you for looking out for us Judy  :kiss:

[cherie]

I couldn’t resist resurrecting this thread, as snopes.com just did a response to this exact email…

http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/ninetips.asp

xox
Cherie

[darkhairedkaren]

[quote author=cherie link=topic=543.msg3957#msg3957 date=1133992692]
I couldn’t resist resurrecting this thread, as snopes.com just did a response to this exact email…

http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/ninetips.asp

xox
Cherie

Thank you for posting this, Cherie!  Advice that is very simplistic and absolute sometimes sets a red flag off with me, and I was troubled when I really agreed with some of the points in that chain mail.  I’m glad to know that some of the points that made sense to me (e.g. avoiding the stairwells if alone, locking the car door behind you right away, etc.) are also considered good advice by experts.

[BubbaTech]

[quote author=darkhairedkaren link=topic=543.msg3961#msg3961 date=1134063108]
Thank you for posting this, Cherie!  Advice that is very simplistic and absolute sometimes sets a red flag off with me, and I was troubled when I really agreed with some of the points in that chain mail.  I’m glad to know that some of the points that made sense to me (e.g. avoiding the stairwells if alone, locking the car door behind you right away, etc.) are also considered good advice by experts.

The trouble with chain mail is that it never is without crap added to things that are semi-true…

never take things at face value, look to people that really know what is going on. Do the search, google, lycos, msn, yahoo…

that is what the search engines are for, for you to do the research, and find the truth.  never pass on things that are crap

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