AFP Guide to Personal Safety

soulman that’s the funniest thing i’ve read in yonks. yes, yonks.

schmerica_, No, but I own the theme to Walker: Texas Ranger as performed by Tirk Wilder. I bought it on iTunes.

Who knew the full length song was a 4 verse ballad? The horror:(

Hey where does it say “If you get into trouble, remember you are on you own unless you fit the patented case selection criteria and the resource useage guidelines.”

Soulman are you Chuck Norris in hiding?

I know people who have come back from the States and told me that one of the first things they did when they got there was get a handgun. The reason… in some/many parts of the major cities where gang violence in rampant, people drive around with pistols on their dash to show they mean business. God I hope we never see that sought of crap here. Well, at least not to that extent.

“the tip about don’t respond to conversation from strangers on the street or in a car”

Thats just ridiculous anybody been for a stroll in Los Angeles recently and seen what sort of society you have when people take that advice seriously. Totally alien you might as well be on the Moon, the streets are baron and if you walk up to some one and ask for directions or advice its like talking to a brick wall you are usually totally ignored a very strange situation.

Personally, some parts of this guide are overkill, as you pointed out GnT, the tip about don’t respond to conversation from strangers on the street or in a a car. In the past month, two people have pulled up while I was walking home. Both were women needing directions. I didn’t get to close but still responded. Now if it was a car full of yokels with guns, then I might keep walking?

With regards to sepi’s comment on if your being followed. I pieced togeather these important safety tips from the NYPD website and from episodes of Walker: Texas Ranger, that I’d seen.

1) Make three consecutive right turns
2) If still being followed, stop at the nearest truckers stop or diner.
3) Approach the vehicle following you while puting on a cowboy hat or sunbrerro.
4) If more than once person is following you, call over your shorter sidekick/passenger. Ensure he two is wearing a cowboy hat.
5) Exchange sarcastic, cliched remarks that do nothing but inflame situation. Then take pause while “singing in the eyes of a ranger…”
6) Round house kick driver of vehicle so that he is thrown over bonnet of his car.
7) Help sidekick punch and karate chop other offenders who despite repeated assaults, seem to jump up and continue fighting.
8) Once offenders are on the ground unconscious, call 911 (000) for assistance.
9) Ask sidekick how cowboy hat stayed on head despite repeated karate moves and back flips while subduing offenders.
10) Finish by looking towards the mobile phone camera of local teenager while doing cheesy grin that can be used as freeze frame closer for YouTube video.

And the one that suggests that if you are being followed, drive to a police station – not much good in Canberra I would have thought – they are either tucked away off the street, or closed at night.

Back to commenting on the actual story …

Most is commonsense, but as for this one:
“Do not respond to conversation from strangers on the street or in a car – continue walking”

I would like to think that if I approached someone to politely ask the time or when the bus arrived, they would respond instead of rudely walking away.

Huh??!?

The missus’ handbag isn’t huge, just full of mess!