Just a few safety tips for women . . . .

1. Tae Kwon Do has taught us the elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it - do. And few men can continue any activity after a hard knee to their groin.

2. If a robber asks for your money, wallet or purse, don't hand it to him. Toss it away from you, as far as you can. Chances are he is more interested in your money than you, and he will go for the purse. Run like mad in the other direction, making lots of noise.

3. If you should be put in the trunk of a car, kick out the tail light if possible, and stick your arm or leg out the hole and wave it like crazy. The driver won't see you but there's a good chance others will. This has saved women's lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get in their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc. and just sit (doing their checkbook, making a list, checking their makeup, etc.). Don't do this. A predator may be watching you, and this will give him the opportunity to get in the passenger seat, put a weapon to your head, and make you drive away. As soon as you get into your car lock the doors and drive away to a safer place.

5. When you get into your car in a parking lot or garage:

a. Be aware, look around you, and look into your car, the passenger floorboard, and rear seat.

b. Be very cautious if there is a big van parked next to your car, on the driver's side especially. Enter your car from the passenger side if you have to. Serial killers have been known to grab women and pull them into the side door of a van while the women were fumbling with their keys.

c. Look at the cars next to yours. If there is a single male sitting in the seat next to your car just go back into the building and get someone to accompany you to your car. Many buildings/malls have security personnel just for this. Being paranoid is better than being dead.

6. Always take the elevator, never enter stairwells. Stairwells are notorious for being the scene of crimes.

7. If the predator has a gun, and you are not under his physical control - RUN! The predator will only hit a running target 4 in 100 times, and even then it most likely won't be a vital organ. Run, in a zig zag pattern, and make lots of noise.

8. As a woman, you tend to be sympathetic. Stop! It may get you raped or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good looking, educated man. He always preyed 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. Then he abducted his next victim.

9. A recent method of attacking women has been with the use of a recorded crying baby sound. They ring your doorbell, and a crying baby is heard outside. Do not open your door! The predator lures women to open the door, thinking someone has left a baby on the porch. Call 911 and keep the door locked.

Tuck

Walk like you know where you are going, and look around. Avoid hedges, privacy fences, free standing walls and alleys.

Don't wear a purse or backpack strapped across your body. It can be used to pull you down.

If someone grabs you go completely limp. Chances are your attacker will lose their grip on you.

If your attacker gets you on the ground, thrash and curse like you are insane. Use every ounce of strength you have, and move every single body part you have.

Do not be afraid to hurt your attacker. Even if you can't prevent a rape, take some skin with you. If you get tissue under your nails, you have marked your assailant and you have provided the police with DNA which could, even if you don't survive, send your attacker to prison and prevent it from happening to someone else.

Avoid walking alone, especially at night or in deserted places.

If you have to run, take off your high heels!

Very good tips. Others?

Ok Tuck time to put the morphine away.....................number 7 up top is the funniest advice I ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!

What movie you get that from???????

run away in a zig zag manner?????????????

LMAO

BigStoney

How's that? It's not my advice, but that of nationally known professionals. What's better, go calmly to whatever isolated place he wants to take you. No. Run and take your best chance to live.

I, and many who teach self defense disagree with your opinion. But it's America, and you can make your own decision.

Tuck

Stoney, I have actually been told that several times, by law enforcement officials and other "experts" in womens' safety.

A man, any man, is at his most vulnerable during the sex act, especially during climax. If your hands are not bound punch him in the throat, poke out his eyes, head butt him in the nose. If you are going to injure him, hurt him to the point where he is writhing in pain or don't bother. You need to disable him in order to get away. If you are being forced to perform oral sex and there is no weapon at your temple or throat then turn your head and bite down as hard as you can with your molars. Then run like the wind! Don't stop to pick up your clothes, just run like the devil himself was chasing you. Scream curses at the top of your lungs as you run. People will shy away from "help" but will turn out like mad to see what is going on if they hear cursing.

I apologize you are right Run is the best defense, it's that whole part after the word RUN that cracked me up!!!

stoney if someone is shooting at you zig zag dude straight lines make it easy i think thats what tuck is saying dont be that girl in the movies who runs straight down the middle of the street and takes one in the back. swerve go btw things.

This is all very good advice. And I too have been told this by my step dad who was a cop for many years, along with other friends who are officers as well. Thanks for posting it and making others aware.

Here's a thought: move out of the right-wing, whiskey guzzling, vicodin gobbling, kevlar piercing armed to the teeth, women's rights hating neighborhood, and into a community of pot-smoking left-wing social activist vegetarian pacifists who are strong advocates for women's rights. Solve 90% of your problems prophylactically right there ladies:)

^ Questionable advice at best, not substantiated by facts (solve 90% of the problem?). But another option.

I'm astonishing my post managed to evoke a serious response.

Um, wasn't Bill Clinton one of those women's rights types you're referring to?

Probably safe to assume that far as US presidential policy goes, Clinton was probably more pro-women's rights than presidents before or after him were, sure.

Speaking of women's rights, I was surprised to hear Bush sort of back away from S. Dakota's recent trip back to the time to when neandertals roamed Europe regarding abortion law. Like it or not, states are going to be lining up to ban abortion; it's now or never. Burkha time.

Might as well get fitted for one. If the Democratic Socialist party gains power we'll fall just like Europe is falling.

So, Peppy, how are you tonight?

Fine Ruggys. Tired of the cold weaher. Handsome wedding photo of you & Rug BTW.

Europe is falling!? OMG, they didn't mention that on the News Hour with Jim Lerher. They did report on a

big assed military action in the West Bank however, the British & American peace keepers got the hell out of the way. I thought they were talking about Iraq at first. Some bad stuff afoot. Probably belongs on another thread however.

Thank you. It was a fun day.

Falling, as in London's burning? No. I meant it in a figurative sense. And like Jim Lerher would report the news anyway.

Seriously, what happened in Europe? I haven't seen anything in the paper about it.

Nothing new. Just the trouble that they have been having in France and Denmark. And England. And where ever else. It's really sad, you know? I have never understood why one group feels that it is more right than another at the expense of human life. That does not mean that I am a pacifist, by the way. It just means that I don't understand why different cultures and belief systems can't co-exist. I guess we just can't get past our hind brains.

We had underclasses rioting here in the US back in the 60s. It got real ugly. When I was a kid I used to watch the riot squads practicing in the mall parking lot. The recent rioting in France and Denmark is the result of an underclass pushing against the social restraints that keep them in the gutter.

This type of thing happens repeatedly in history. The ruling class holds the goods, the underclass eventually riots, and maybe policy changes, maybe the underclass becomes the ruling class, like in Rwanda.

Then the new ruling classes, which used to be the underclass, will repress the new underclass in an effort to hold on to their political and economic hegemony.

I don't think Europe is falling. It has an old and ancient aristocracy that is still well established, and they are well invested as a global corporate force.