Outdoor Safety:
Overview

The biggest obstacle to Outdoor Safety (parking lots, city streets, suburban byways, country roads, and secluded paths) is the average person's innocence. This naïveté of the prey takes four forms:
1st: carefree/careless (assuming no one wants to harm you, you act carelessly);
2nd: too trusting (if someone seems harmless or has a good story, you’re gullible);
3rd: mirror imaging (assuming a predator shares your morals, you try to reason with him rather than outsmart him), and
4th: location immunity (assuming you’re in a “safe” area, you turn off your danger radar and fall into one of the first three traps).

NEVER drop your guard, and NEVER let anyone get near you (in a vulnerable location) or isolate you – no matter how friendly he/she appears. See Friendly Predators below.

Most victims simply didn’t expect the depravity of a psychopath’s mind. Your new outdoor safety attitude starts with a glimpse of that depravity:

"Miss bates was stupid. She went to the slaughter like a lamb. She did not put up a struggle. but I did. It was a ball. I first cut the middle wire from the distributor. then I waite for her in the library and followed her out after about two minutes. The battery must have been about dead by then. I then offered to help. She was then very willing to talk to me. I told her that my car was down the street and that I would give her a lift home. When we were away from the library walking, I said it was about time. she asked me, "about time for what?" I said it was about time for her to die.... I grabbed her around the neck with my hand over her mouth and my other hand with a small knife at her throat...."
Excerpt of a letter from the Zodiac Killer to The Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA) – November 1966

If Miss Bates had had the chance to read this page, she’d have suspected that a “friendly” predator was trying to isolate his prey, and would’ve stayed in her locked car. But, alas, Crime-Safety-Security.com didn’t exist back then.

I’ve created this simple concept to give you a handy rule-of-thumb for outdoor safety: a violent criminal is either a Force Predator or a Friendly Predator. You’ll instantly know a force predator – he’ll suddenly attack you from the open or from ambush, though he might first play cat-and-mouse while deciding whether or not to attack you. However, a friendly predator will first try to get near you to isolate and trap you, then attack you. Many victims, afraid to appear rude, ignored their gut feelings and were trusting, easy, naïve prey for a friendly predator. Never forget that and you’ll never fall for a stranger’s lure.

It’s impossible to fully anticipate the panicky chaos of a sudden threat forcing you to make split-second life-and-death decisions. Nonetheless, understanding your options now will help your Intuition choose an option then.

Personal Safety Devices

For convenience, learn self-defense online:

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