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9 Critical Safety Rules for Women: Your Mini Guide To Safety

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I read this long before but never cared to post it here unless something horrible happened with a very dear friend of mine. We women are vulnerable to road side eve teasing, chain snatching and many more terrible attacks. In a country like ours that does very little for women’s safety, it becomes our own responsibility to safeguard ourselves.

Please share it further to spread the word.
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. 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.
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 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.
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.

10. Water scam! If you wake up in the middle of the night to hear all your taps outside running or what you think is a burst pipe, DO NOT GO OUT TO INVESTIGATE! These people turn on all your outside taps full blast so that you will go out to investigate and then attack.

Stay alert, keep safe, and look out for your neighbors! Please pass this on This e-mail should probably be taken seriously because the Crying Baby Theory was mentioned on America ‘s Most Wanted 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..
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..

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  1. Great tips, Surabhi. Wonder if the way to creating a world that is safe is possible. We still are one of the few societies that are trusting by default. I hope we will be able to keep it that way.

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  3. Wow Great Tips mam.. i was enrolled (read forced)by my dad for self defense training. There, my coach used to tell me 'n' no of times, "when u think ur in trouble only 'maan'(deer in tamil) karate will help" 😀 😛 i.e., Just run like a deer in the opposite direction. however trained u might be it is d safest option…

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  8. thanks a lot surabhi for this post……shall forward to my friends….totally in love with all your posts……too good to relate to and read.thanks again for these women-centric posts..

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  12. These are all such amazing points!! So easy to implement but we seldom do! Constant vigilance! We women need to be more conscious of all safety precautions! I especially loved the line "better to be paranoid than dead!" 😀

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  14. Yeah Nafisa..

    I found all of these to be very true and critically important. Do share it with your friends. and thanks for being here. 🙂

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  17. i shared on facebook, thanks for sharing such informative tips, but the truth is when such thing happens we panic and our brain stop working

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  19. wow, surabhi, this is a great post…. really informative and interesting… taking on from the above comment, i'd like to share this on facebook too….

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  21. All the points you have mentioned here are great tips.More so, keeping Pepper spray and knowing a bit of Marshall art must help.Although main thing should be to keep your mind calm even at the face of danger.A composed minds figures out Common sense well enough.

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  29. Hi Surabhi,

    Thanks for sharing this. I suppose it would be helpful to certain extent.
    I have shared this post with my friends. Wanted to ask if i can post this
    information on my blog.

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