WRITTEN BY A COP: Everyone should take 5 minutes to read this. It may save your life or a loved one's life. In daylight hours, refresh yourself of these things to do in an emergency situation... This is for you, and for you to share with your wife, your children, & everyone you know. After reading these 9 crucial tips, forward them to someone you care about. It never hurts to be careful in this crazy world we live in.

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do :The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!

2. Learned this from a tourist guide. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse,
DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you... Chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse.
RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy.. The driver won't see you, but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc.
DON'T DO THIS!) The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side, put a gun to your head,
and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR ,
LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE..

If someone is in the car with a gun to your head DO NOT DRIVE OFF, Repeat:
DO NOT DRIVE OFF! Instead gun the engine and speed into anything, wrecking the car. Your Air Bag will save you. If the person is in the back seat they will get the worst of it. As soon as the car crashes bail out and run. It is better than having them find your body in a remote location.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:
A.) Be aware:look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor ,
and in the back seat.
B.) If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door.
Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women
are attempting to get into their cars. C.) Look at the car parked on the driver's side of your vehicle, and the passenger side.. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot. This is especially true at NIGHT!)

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN!
The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; and even then,
it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN, Preferably in a zig -zag pattern!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played 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, which is when he abducted his next victim.

9. Another Safety Point: Someone just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last, and she called the police because it was late
and she thought it was weird.. The police told her 'Whatever you do, DO NOT
open the door..' The lady then said that it sounded like the baby
had crawled near a window, and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over. The policeman said, 'We already have a unit on the way,
whatever you do, DO NOT open the door.' He told her that they think a serial killer
has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby.. He said they have not verified it, but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby's cries outside their doors when they're home alone at night.

10. Water scam! If you wake up in the middle of the night to hear all your taps outside running or what you think is a burst pipe, DO NOT GO OUT TO INVESTIGATE! These people turn on all your outside taps full blast so that you will go out to investigate and then attack.

Stay alert, keep safe, and look out for your neighbors! Please pass this on
This e-mail should probably be taken seriously because the Crying Baby Theory was mentioned on America 's Most Wanted when they profiled
the serial killer in Louisiana

I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know.
It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle..
I was going to send this to the ladies only,
but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc.,
you may want to pass it onto them, as well.

Send this to any woman you know that may need
to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it
and it's better to be safe than sorry..
Everyone should take 5 minutes to read this. It may save your life or
a loved one's life.

No No No! this is not the "Jokes: A little light destruction!" thread.
I can't be weaving whilst running, nor hiding in the house whilst half the babies in the locality howl on my doorstep! Throwing my wallet down the road when approached by a stranger!
What kind of place are you living in? The poor missus must be at her wits end

Didn't know things were that bad in Gran Canaria Tommy, sounds like something that was written for downtown Miami.

I have decided that the whole thing is just another attempt to control women, by instilling fear in them. Next you will want them to cover themselves up in case men become excited

Always worth checking with Snopes when something like this is posted...

Some may scoff at your advice Tommy, but there are some very good points to take note of.

The part about getting into the car with a van parked by the side, is not one that I thought of, but now reading this, it is a very useful bit of advice.

The running tap and crying baby would have got me outside, but now I know it could be a trap to the unwary, forewarned is forearmed.

Well done Tommy, they have fallen for it The white van man will have the whole car park to himself

Well, Jonboy, I can only presume that you have not had your wife/partner/daughter arrive home after some incident where they have felt vunerable and afraid.

If a bit more of this type of emails going around helps the likes of Milly Dowler, Suzy Lamplugh etc, what is the problem.

A few days ago there was a "stranger danger" excersise in a park in the UK, some of the children in question went with the stranger without hesitation.

Lets be fair, one thing stood out to me and I will try and remember it for the rest of my life, I think I am quite streetwise but the bit about turning on your taps, well that one possibly for me deserves a bit of credit.

can i give another tip.................if a woman is grabbed from behind and he keeps hold of you from behind then as hard as you can use the heel of your high heels, or whatever foot wear you are wearing and scrape it down his shin bone, then stamp on the joint of his big toe.

Can I give you a tip ?

Switch on Channel 4 plus 1 now.

Excellent prog and lots of tips about thieving and pickpocketing in Spain.

Much of it in Barcelona, the Worlds number 1 pickpocketing City.

I do get a touch brassed off when the chavs say things like 'we were talking to these Spanish lads..........and they robbed us' were they Spanish ?? or did they just look Spanish ??

What does a Spanish lad look like ?

Im not defending them (spanish lads) but how can they be sure ?

Some are Spanish, most are not, doesn't matter.

If you watch the prog you'll see every guise and disguise under the sun, male, female even midgets, most you'd never dream could be a threat

They're back on the streets robbing again within an hour of being caught.
No prison sentences for it in Spain either.

It's a huge very sick joke, it's like nobody really cares apart from one or two vigilantes p!ssed off with it all and trying to improve the situation.

I know I agree, I seen it, I can always see the lookouts too, you start too see the same faces everyday, Im very good at people watching, but also I have been foolish more than once, I try and learn, for me now I always leave everything in my car which is usually in UK or Spain not far from me, so I just go back to grab another 20€ should I need it.

II also read the stories in CBN, and often the police have the mugshots in the station of the regulars - but your right they nick them and then they are back out almost straight away.

I just think personally in my own experience its more Eastern European like in UK than it is home grown but that is not to discount it goes on as I know like you it does bigtime.

Hire car I always peel the stickers off, I do worry driving my own motor down though, just Like I say I am more aware of things than others, I hope ?

I've not been turned over myself though it's been tried a few times, and I've seen too many who have been done at close hand.

The result is I'm almost paranoid about it now, suspicious of almost everything and everybody, not sure if it's a good thing or a bad.

I only properly relax now when I'm well away from busy cities, towns and roads back out on my typical traditional home ground out in the sticks or in some remote mountain village.