Outdoor Safety Tips for Women:
Force Predators
&
Street Survival
Outdoor Safety means learning to avoid the traps of Force Predators. Sometimes they first approach you as Friendly Predators, then suddenly switch. She wasn't too worried about the man hanging around the basement laundry room. She recognized him as a neighbor from the building where she had lived for years. She often did her laundry in the middle of the night if she couldn't sleep. It was easier to get a washing machine. ... "As I was putting my laundry in the dryer, he turned off the light and closed the door," she said. The room went pitch-black. The man maneuvered his way behind her and tried to push her forward onto the floor. As she screamed and struggled, he smashed her against the dryers, cutting her face, and dragged her behind the row of machines. "I was screaming," she said recently. "Nobody could hear me."
Excerpted from The Journal News (White Plains NY) – 17 February 2004
Outdoor Safety AMBUSH ZONES
 • Don’t go alone to laundry rooms in apartment buildings.
• Use fire stairwells only in a true emergency.
• Be wary of going alone into public restrooms.
• See Elevator Safety in Apartment Security.
• Parking lots have lots of hiding spots. Assume someone is always watching you. See Parking Lot Safety.
• Avoid stairwells or elevators in parking garages. Instead, walk in the middle of ramps.
• Shopping malls and ATMs are magnets for criminals. They know you have money.
• Parks and wilderness areas are ideal hunting grounds for predators – as shown in Camping and Running Safety.
The young woman was sitting at a picnic table in a park with her boyfriend when a group of four boys walked up and asked for a cigarette. "The next thing I remembered," she said, "was seeing the gun." ... For the next 30 minutes, four teenage boys took turns raping the woman. Her boyfriend was beaten and ordered to keep his head down on the picnic table as the ordeal unfolded.
Excerpted from The Richmond Times-Dispatch – 18 July 2005 It’s impossible to fully anticipate the panicky chaos of a sudden threat forcing you to make split-second decisions. Nonetheless, understanding your options now will help your Intuition choose an option then. Street Crime FAQ tips apply to all of outdoor safety.
Street Survival Safety Tips for Women
Deter a predator by carrying a Personal Security Alarm (a.k.a. screamer or noisemaker) & Pepper Spray in plain sight.
Outdoor Safety Tips for Women: street crime and stranger danger - as well as dog attack defense:
• Outdoor Safety - Overview
• Parking Lot Safety FAQ
• Purse Snatching FAQ tips.
• Friendly Predators first try to get near you to isolate and trap you, then attack you. Never forget that and you’ll never fall for a stranger’s lure.
• Force Predators (YOU’RE NOW ON THIS PAGE): ambush zones revealed.
• Predator’s Favorite Targets: how not to be one.
• Spotting Danger ahead of time, and sensing if someone is about to draw a weapon - and what to do before it's too late.
• Facing Danger: if you're already targeted in a robbery, purse snatching, rape or kidnapping attack, choose among the five outdoor safety options: Posturing, Fleeing, Outsmarting, Surrendering, or Fighting.
• Street Crime FAQ tips apply to all of outdoor safety.
• Running Safety & Walking Safety: do's & don'ts FAQ.
• Rescuing a Victim Safely: how best to be a hero.
• Dog Attack: facing an attack on you or a loved one.
• Camping: human predators love hunting human prey in isolated wilderness.
• Pickpockets: stopping masterful thieves from stealing you blind.
• Recap of this section.
• Security Products - Personal Devices
• Personal Security Alarm: a.k.a. screamer or noisemaker
• Pepper Spray & where to buy pepper spray
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