Personal safety when enjoying the great outdoors.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

....... 3rd dan Aikido black belt says that they're taught to hand over their purse if mugged, or run.............

I knew someone who was mugged but didn't have any money on her so offered the robber a cheque .... Silly, but true and what do you do if like the Queen and I, you don't carry cash around? Muggers probably won't believe you and most likely would get angry? Should we carry money around just in case we're mugged?

[thunder]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

I knew someone who was mugged but didn't have any money on her so offered the robber a cheque .... Silly, but true and what do you do if like the Queen and I, you don't carry cash around? Muggers probably won't believe you and most likely would get angry? Should we carry money around just in case we're mugged?

How about an empty wallet?

henrya

[bigdave60dog]

When our first child arrived and began to wonder round the farm my wife (being town bred- was terrified to let him go across the fields in case anything happened to him. I took a long time to convince her that the countryside is a very safe place to live and work in.Thank God that I live on an archipelago of islands where we still wonder freely and greet strangers when we meet wherever we meet.
The only problem is that when I do the same on the Mainland I get some really "snotty" responses.
It is about time that we stopped distrusting everyone that we meet and began to communicate with each other personally rather than through computer media which seems to have become largely the case over the last few years.
I read an account of a persons experiences in Africa in the 1800s.
He said that leopards were killed because their whiskers were believed to contain a poison with which a person could kill another. Not -he said- because all Africans are murderers but because they believed that their neighbours are. They killed the leopard to stop his whiskers being used on themselves. At the time such distrust of ones neighbour was unthinkable.
It occurs to me that most English people are not violent sex attackers or muggers they all believe their neighbour to be one.

[nightshade]

An Airline Hostess friend always said that when in a strange area, look confident, think "beware of me" and it shows in your stance and demeanour, do not get into an argument, try not to turn your back, walk away.
When out Bat watching, I sometimes carry a small flash gun, close your eyes and press the test button, they ain't going nowhere for the moment! walk away.

[Littlesparrow]

I've just nearly given myself a heart attack. I was creeping around the garden in the dark looking for wood mice as you do and I forgot I was using the Halloween torch. If, as I did, you press a button on the side, the torch screams. I wonder if it would have the same effect on people giving you unwanted attention.

[beech]

and during the winter ....remember......never eat yellow snow

[Deb London]

Originally Posted by Littlesparrow

I've just nearly given myself a heart attack. I was creeping around the garden in the dark looking for wood mice as you do and I forgot I was using the Halloween torch. If, as I did, you press a button on the side, the torch screams. I wonder if it would have the same effect on people giving you unwanted attention.

LOL Annie, that is so funny!

[sunnydale]

So........ how far in the air did you jump Annie?

[Littlesparrow]

About a foot in the air and needless to say I scared the wood mouse back under the shed.

[sunnydale]

Originally Posted by Littlesparrow

About a foot in the air and needless to say I scared the wood mouse back under the shed.

Aww, ....maybe you'll spot him again. Just take a different torch with you!