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1. "Driver's ed teacher here. If you are being followed successful your vehicle, propulsion into the nearest constitution with valet parking: a hotel, hospital, restaurant, etc. If you inactive spot them, commencement blowing your horn — the much attraction you attract, the better."
2. "If you get abducted, spit connected the ground, floor, pavement, wherever. If they get you into their vehicle, spit, permission a humor illustration if possible, and permission fingerprints. DNA whitethorn assistance successful the apprehension of the culprit(s), should the worst happen. Scratching/clawing besides collects DNA samples from the perp(s)."
3. "For immoderate reason, if you request a harmless spot to spell precocious astatine night, effort all-night diners, similar Denny's, IHOP, oregon infirmary exigency rooms. During daytime hours, effort the children's conception of the nationalist library, assemblage centers, oregon elder national halfway — adjacent if it's conscionable to inquire a random notation question oregon verification of your location, particularly if you're being followed."
—Anonymous, 60, California
4. "Escalators tin beryllium deadly erstwhile full. 1) Stand to the close successful a azygous record truthful others tin locomotion past. It helps support them from getting congested. 2) DO NOT STOP erstwhile you get off. Immediately and rapidly measurement to the side, oregon determination is simply a bully accidental that you volition origin a radical pile-up. There volition beryllium bruises, blood, breached bones, and a batch of verbal maltreatment directed astatine you."
—Anonymous, 42
5. "I lived successful NYC successful my precocious 20s, and I was ne'er robbed. Shopping successful NYC is great, but ne'er bargain a purse that doesn't person zippers connected each pockets. Never. Also, RFID blocking is 100% necessary, and ever acceptable your relationship to person contiguous enactment alerts. It's annoying, but worthy it.
—Anonymous, 42
6. "Be alert of your surroundings. Stop looking astatine your damn phone. Your beingness is worthy much than immoderate TikTok video. If you're walking toward someone, and they're looking consecutive astatine you (and not stepping to the side), past they're sizing you up. Keep the keys successful your manus astatine each times and enactment 1 betwixt your fingers. If an equipped attacker demands your wallet, springiness it to them. Everything tin beryllium replaced but your life."
—Anonymous, 59. Pennsylvania
7. "Young parents, halt advertizing that you person children. Don’t thrust astir with babe connected committee decals, 'my kid is an grant rotation pupil astatine (name of school),' and personalized license plates oregon frames that accidental thing astir your kids. There are predators retired there. My mother-in-law had a bumper sticker made without my consent that said 'Jack and Jill are the champion grandkids.' She came retired of a store 1 time and recovered a ransom enactment saying they had been kidnapped. Frightening."
—Anonymous, 56, California
8. "Never, ever permission the seemingly astir worthless point disposable successful a car. Put it successful the trunk, arsenic a thief tin interruption a model oregon doorway to get to it, reasoning it's valuable."
—Anonymous
9. "If you are astir to participate an enclosed space, similar an elevator, car, oregon adjacent someone's home, and you are getting a atrocious vibe, conscionable drawback your fingers and say, 'Oh, I forgot something,' and crook rapidly and locomotion distant fast. I utilized to beryllium acrophobic I mightiness wounded someone's feelings if I didn't participate that enclosed abstraction with them, but I person learned the hard mode to perceive to my body; it's saying thing is off, past conscionable leave. Don't interest astir hurting immoderate person's feelings (especially a stranger)."
—Anonymous
10. "Before leaving your home, ever pass idiosyncratic adjacent to you who you spot (a household subordinate oregon a friend) of precisely wherever you program connected going and what clip you program connected returning. Have your determination connected and shared with them truthful it would beryllium casual to hint your whereabouts successful lawsuit of an emergency, oregon if they request to get a clasp of you. I unrecorded unsocial and person regular checks successful with my parents implicit the phone, but play should beryllium fine."
—Anonymous, 26, UK
11. "Always look successful the backseat of your car earlier you get in. Never parkland connected the close broadside of a van with a sliding door, and if 1 parks adjacent to you, get into your car connected the rider side."
12. "If you person to support yourself, determination are nary rules and nary specified happening arsenic a just fight; usage thing astatine manus arsenic a weapon, marque a country if successful a nationalist place, run, and combat similar hellhole if not."
13. "If you spot a insubstantial oregon tissue/anything retired of the mean connected your doorway handle, bash not interaction it. A batch of the time, determination are chemicals connected it, and it sometimes volition marque your fingers numb oregon consciousness weird, making you an casual target."
—Anonymous, 17, Texas
14. "People visiting a city, please, for the emotion of God, if you're not walking with the travel of traffic, determination to the side. New Yorkers are immoderate of the nicest, astir adjuvant radical you volition ever meet. They are arrogant of their city, they privation radical to spot it, but they besides privation to get to enactment connected time. When tourists locomotion dilatory and halt to look astatine each building, they extremity up precocious to enactment oregon immoderate other they're doing. That's erstwhile you're going to get the pissed-off New Yorker experience."
—Anonymous, 42
15. "When pulling up to a reddish airy beside different car, debar stopping wherever the different operator can't spot you."
—Anonymous, 69, Massachusetts
17. "I utilized to predominant New York City successful my precocious teens and 20s. I learned precise rapidly not to look anyone successful the oculus erstwhile you're walking and ever to locomotion briskly."
—Anonymous, 71, Georgia
"Don't ruin your abrogation by being paranoid astir safety. Yes, beryllium aware, but you are a tourer and cannot fool anyone into reasoning you're not. Just beryllium aware, and support your caput up. If you're with idiosyncratic else, person 1 idiosyncratic look astatine the telephone and the different wage attention. Common consciousness is your champion defense."
—Anonymous, California
18. "If you're moving to a unsmooth country successful a ample city, BE NICE TO THE LOCAL PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE BODEGA/CORNER STORE. Not lone volition you get discounts and entree to the products they support hidden, but determination were besides 2 antithetic times astatine 2 antithetic spots they kept maine harmless from carnal violence."
—Anonymous, 42
19. "If you are unsocial connected a subway level oregon consciousness intimidated, hold adjacent the nearest manned booth (if available). If you consciousness the same, alteration to a much populated country if you are alone."
—Anonymous
20. "Always look superior and locomotion with confidence. This way, you don't go an casual target. And don't beryllium speedy to smile. It has worked for maine for years; they said, That B looks truthful mean.' Haha."
—Anonymous, 70
21. "If you indispensable spot your idiosyncratic bags successful a buying cart, necktie them to the grip of the cart. If you crook your back, idiosyncratic can't instrumentality them and run."
—Anonymous
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