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1. "Never transportation your valuables successful a backpack. Backpack purses are a immense no, too. My simple and mediate schoolhouse years were spent successful the tourer traps of Florida. We learned however easy idiosyncratic tin bargain things from a backpack portion you're standing. You won't adjacent consciousness it. My person had $20 stolen from her container portion it was connected her backmost astatine a taxable park. Crossbody bags are the champion if you indispensable transportation a bag. They are hard to rip disconnected you. If idiosyncratic tries to get successful your bag, you'll consciousness it since it's resting connected your hep oregon stomach."
2. "When you are alone, don't ever get into the backseat of a rideshare. You don't privation to find retired that the backseat kid locks are on, and you can't get out."
—Anonymous, 30, Canada
3. "A batch of 911 centers successful ample cities person texting capabilities. Our halfway adjacent offers FaceTime and unrecorded streaming. If you're successful a concern wherever you don't consciousness harmless calling for help, conscionable effort texting. Literally benignant 911 arsenic the telephone fig erstwhile you commencement a caller text. Not each 911 centers person texting capabilities, but the larger areas usually do."
—Anonymous, 39, Tennessee
4. "Remember that you tin ever acceptable disconnected your car alarm with your cardinal fob if thing is happening successful a parking lot. The alarm is precise loud, and radical volition ever look to spot what's happening."
5. "Always locomotion astir your car and cheque the tires. The 1 clip I didn't bash this, idiosyncratic had deliberately enactment a solid vessel successful beforehand of 1 of my tires. Obviously, it broke, truthful I got retired of my car to cheque if my tyre was okay, and thankfully, it seemed to be. However, I spent the adjacent hr and a fractional connected the interstate, hoping my tyre wouldn't stroke retired aft all, since it was precocious astatine night, a agrarian country without bully cellphone reception, and I was alone; arsenic a woman, getting stranded connected the broadside of the roadworthy tin extremity precise badly. Luckily, the tyre stayed fine."
—Anonymous
6. "If you're sitting successful a nationalist spot similar a mall, and you person a bag, loop it onto your ft oregon arm, truthful it's harder to get stolen."
7. "I grew up successful Seattle and traveled each implicit the city. Carry a sock filled with coins. They are dense and marque a bully limb if needed. When astatine a state station, ALWAYS parkland successful the wrong lane arsenic adjacent to the wage booth arsenic you can. The extracurricular lane leaves you susceptible to being robbed. ALWAYS fastener your doors erstwhile you get retired of the car to pump and wage for gas. Also, erstwhile utilizing a nationalist restroom, ne'er enactment your purse connected the level for thieves to grab; this besides goes for dressing rooms."
—Anonymous
8. "If you fishy idiosyncratic is pursuing you, marque 3 consecutive close turns; if they're inactive down you, you're being followed."
—Anonymous, 35, California
9. "My hubby is simply a retired 30-year instrumentality enforcement officer. He ever told our daughters and me, if you're walking and you consciousness idiosyncratic is pursuing you, crook astir and yell, 'STOP RIGHT THERE.' It puts them disconnected guard, and they volition astir apt marque a speedy getaway."
—Anonymous, California
10. "As a azygous ma of young children, vacations/trips tin beryllium scary! If you are able, ALWAYS valet astatine your hotel. That way, you aren't wrestling luggage and leaving your child(ren) to fend for themselves. If valet isn't an option, propulsion up to the edifice and inquire for assistance oregon a cart — 99% of the time, the edifice volition clasp your luggage portion you spell parkland truthful that you tin support an oculus connected your surroundings and your babies."
—Anonymous, 39, Texas
11. "I volition play the 'what-if' crippled successful my head. I deliberation astir what I would bash if X concern happens. That way, I person an thought of however I would react. This helped maine erstwhile I was a teacher. I had imagined what I would bash if 1 of my students were successful a aesculapian emergency, like, alternatively of saying, 'Someone telephone 911,' I would constituent to idiosyncratic to bash it to prevention time. Well, I had a pupil walk retired successful the hallway. I pointed astatine 1 miss and said, 'Go get the nurse,' and pointed astatine different and said, 'Go get the principal.' The pupil came to beauteous overmuch close away. Thinking successful beforehand astir what I would bash kept maine from being frozen with indecision."
12. "Walking and acting assured is the key. I worked for years successful what galore would see precise unsafe oregon undesirable areas. Treat everyone with courtesy but not submissively. Predictors ever look for the weak. Don't be!"
13. "A pistillate person of excavation travels solo a lot. She doesn't halt astatine state stations to usage the bathroom. Instead, she finds the town's admin/courthouse building. It's unlocked each day, determination are ever radical astir (and instrumentality enforcement somewhere), and the bathrooms are ever precise clean."
14. "A household person who worked astatine Safe Passage taught maine and immoderate different women immoderate basal self-defense against intersexual predators. This is WAY easier said than done successful the moment, but they truly emphasized that it's worthy warring back, adjacent if they are bigger, stronger, oregon person a blade. You'll inactive beryllium injured, but grounds suggests that resisting — biting, kicking, hitting, oregon trying to flight — tin halt oregon trim the severity of an assault."
15. "Park nether a rod airy successful a parking lot. If it becomes acheronian earlier you instrumentality to your car, you'll beryllium returning to a well-lit area."
—Anonymous
16. "Grew up successful a ample US city, and thoroughfare smarts are important: 1) Pay attraction to your surroundings. 2) Keys are ever betwixt my fingers. 3) Never, ne'er portion thing that you person not personally had your hands on. 4) Always cheque the backmost seats earlier getting successful your vehicle, and fastener the doors immediately. 5) If you tin debar it, halt carrying a purse: ID successful 1 pocket, recognition paper successful another, and currency successful another. I ne'er transportation much than I tin spend to lose. This besides makes you little of a people if you are older. 6) When retired aft dark, parkland nether lights, if possible, locomotion with a group, and if not, locomotion successful the mediate of wherever. I learned a batch surviving successful a large city, but much successful assemblage during field information classes during assemblage orientation."
17. "Always parkland with the cart instrumentality astatine your driver's side. It prevents radical parking wherever you'll participate your conveyance and assistance lessen the chances of an abduction. It besides keeps you from having to locomotion crossed the parking batch successful lawsuit idiosyncratic is looking for a target."
—Anonymous, 29, Oregon
18. "When walking connected a sidewalk astatine nighttime and crossing wherever an alley intercepts oregon doorways are nearby, don't locomotion adjacent to them. Someone could beryllium hiding determination and leap retired and drawback you."
—Anonymous, 82, Illinois
19. "If you transportation a purse, lone support replaceable items wrong (cosmetics, comb, etc.). Keep your car and location keys successful a abstracted harmless pouch oregon connected a lanyard. Money/credit cards successful different pocket. That way, if your purse is stolen, you volition inactive person your keys and money. Also, don't transportation your code successful your purse. Plus, possibly transportation thing unique, similar a two-dollar measure successful your purse. I was robbed astatine gunpoint. The idiosyncratic was caught, but had thrown my purse into the bushes. I knew precisely however overmuch wealth was successful my purse, and that's what helium was carrying and claimed was his."
—Anonymous, 60, Midwest
20. "Messages from my constabulary serviceman father: 1) Never get successful a car with idiosyncratic who has go intoxicated. 2) Before you get successful your car, person your car cardinal ready. The instant you beryllium successful the seat, fastener the door. Then commencement the car. 3) If you are coming retired of a store astatine nighttime and don't person a bully feeling arsenic you look astatine your car, spell backmost wrong and petition an escort. 4) If you are grabbed, effort to get connected the ground. It makes it harder for them to power your movement."
—Anonymous, 56, Maryland
21. "Don't marque yourself look similar a tourer (from idiosyncratic who's lived adjacent to Barcelona for adjacent to 20 years). All this proposal of putting your bags adjacent to your chest, oregon strapping your telephone to you — each that's doing is giving a Batman awesome to each pickpocket retired determination that 'I'm a tourist, delight people me'. And yes, they volition find a mode contempt each the TikTok videos. Just enactment normal, don't gully attraction to yourself, and for the emotion of invented deities, don't unfastened a immense representation oregon look astatine your telephone successful the mediate of Les Rambles, uncovering retired wherever to go. Either beryllium connected a seat and bash it subtly, oregon other determination with your backmost to the partition and bash it quietly."
22. "Always perceive to your gut. If it's telling you idiosyncratic oregon a concern is dangerous, respond rapidly and get out. That's saved maine a mates of times."
23. "When returning location to an automatic store door, propulsion successful and adjacent the store doorway with your distant earlier you unlock your car door. This is simply a susceptible time, particularly aft dark, for idiosyncratic to onslaught you."
—Anonymous, 65, North Carolina
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