Safety Tips for Women (please read)

**joyb** · 05-13-2006, 01:05 PM

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 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.
>
> 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.
>
> a. If someone is in the car with a gun to your head DO NOT DRIVE
OFF,
>repeat: DO NOT DRIVE OFF! Instead gun the engine and speed into
anything,
>wrecking the car. Your Air Bag will save you. If the person is in the
back
>seat they will get the worst of it. As soon as the car crashes bail
out and
>run. It is better than having them find your body in a remote
location.
>
>
> 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 ar e 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.
>
>
> ************* Here it is
> *******
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Shannon LaForge
> Courtroom Deputy to Judge Robert Junell
> U.S. District Court for the Western District
>
>
>
>
>
>

**starsapphire** · 05-13-2006, 01:15 PM

Sorry but this is not true. Another urban legend. Although the safety tips sound good. Read here for more info:

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

**joyb** · 05-13-2006, 02:11 PM

I don't understand. What is not true, that it is a good idea to protect yourself? I posted this to pass along the safety tips. That was my sole purpose.

**joyb** · 05-13-2006, 02:27 PM

Starsapphire, when I read the part about the crying baby, it occured to me that that part might be a myth. But I found this in my email and the safety tips make sense to me, and if posting them saves one woman from injury, it is well worth the effort. KWIM?

**starsapphire** · 05-13-2006, 03:31 PM

I did not post to offend anyone. I post on several message boards and I see people posting stories that they get in their email that they believe to be true. When I first got on the internet, I believed that they were true too. I learned a long time ago that any story I receive in my email or see posted, to look them up on snopes. 99% of the time they are false. So many people don't know that. I personally know people who won't eat/drink anything with aspartame thinking they're poisoning themselves if they do, who won't let their kids play in the ball crawl in McDonalds because of stupid email hoaxes, who think the Neiman-Marcus cookie story is real and that Penny Brown is still abducted. I try to dispell the myths and shed light on the truth.

If you read my reply all the way through, I did write that the safety tips sounded good. I know your intentions for posting were to be helpful. My intention for posting my reply was also to be helpful. We are all here to try and help each other out.

No hard feelings.