OUTDOOR SAFETY TIPS FOR WOMEN:
OVERVIEW
You're about to learn outdoor safety tips for women: how to outsmart predators, and how to never fall for a friendly predator's trap.
You'll see how to handle a face-to-face encounter, how to control fear itself, how criminal minds think, and how to outsmart them. Best of all, you'll also learn how to possibly avoid them altogether.
The biggest obstacle to staying safe in parking lots and on city and suburban streets, 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);
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.
How to Stay S.A.F.E.
You'll turn the odds more in your favor by learning how to be S.A.F.E. – Skeptical, Aware, Flexible, Explosive:
Skeptical of anyone trying to get near you or trying to isolate you whether you're at home or outdoors – as shown in Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Friendly Predators, and Scam-In;
Aware of traps and escape strategies – as shown in Spotting Danger and Facing Danger;
Flexible: being tricky, changing strategies as needed – as shown in Victim’s Options - Outsmarting and Verbal Self Defense – and if worse comes to worst:
Exploding into an escape - stun & run – as shown in Sucker Punch and Self Defense Techniques.
Two Kinds of Predators
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, and then attack you.
Many victims, afraid to appear rude, ignored their gut feelings and were trusting, easy, prey for a friendly predator.
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 victims options now will help your intuition choose an option then.
Street Survival Safety Tips
Deter a predator by holding Pepper Spray & a Personal Security Alarm (noisemaker or screamer) in plain sight. See those pages for how to most effectively use them.
ALL Outdoor Safety Tips for Women
• Parking Lot Safety FAQ tips.
• Street Crime FAQ tips.
• Purse Snatching FAQ tips.
• Running Safety & Walking Safety: do's & don'ts FAQ.
• Friendly Predators try to get near you to isolate and trap you, then attack.
• Force Predators: ambush zones revealed.
• Predator’s Favorite Targets: how not to be one.
• Spotting Danger - and what to do before it's too late.
• Facing Danger: if you're already targeted, you have five options.
• Rescuing a Victim Safely: how best to be a hero.
• Dog Attack: facing an attack on you or a loved one.
• Camping: human predators hunt human prey in isolated wilderness.
• Camping Safety & Hiking Safety FAQ.
• Pickpockets: stopping masterful thieves from stealing you blind.
• Recap of this section.
• Pepper Spray
• Personal Security Alarm (noisemaker or screamer).
• Security Products - Personal Devices
