• Be aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side floor, and in the back seat.  (and check out under the car as you approach)
• 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.
• 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.)
   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!
   8.    As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic:  STOP IT!  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.

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Another Safety Alert:  Crying Baby

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 along at night.

DO NOT open the door for a crying baby.  The Crying Baby theory was mentioned on a episode of America's Most Wanted when they profiled a serial killer in Louisiana.

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Take precautions when using the remote lock on your keychain:  (I received this in an email.  It was checked with local police and they confirmed that this was true. 

While traveling, my friend stopped at the roadside rest stop with bathrooms, vending machines, etc. He came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later and found someone had gotten into his car, and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, briefcase... you name it.

He called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into- the police told him that there is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device (transmitter). They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. Since they know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom, it gives them a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to be sure to manually lock your car door by hitting the lock button inside the car, that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting... it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain it sends the code thru the airwaves where it can be stolen.