KNOW WHAT THE BEAST DID YESTERDAY
GAMES PREDATORS PLAY
I have been saying this for years, so why not one more time? The best way to know what the beast is going to do today is to know what the beast did yesterday. Ok, cool, you may be thinking, but what’s that mean to me?
Simple. When we talk self defense, especially for women, about 97% of surviving and/or prevailing against a spontaneous, surprise, deadly, close quarters attack comes down to techniques of prevention and avoidance. In other words, Dudes and Dudettes, avoiding any attack in the first place.
THE SIX LINEAR STAGES OF SELF DEFENSE
- Techniques of Self Awareness.
- Threat Recognition Techniques.
- Preventive Techniques.
- Techniques of Avoidance.
- Escape and Evasion Strategies.
- Close Quarter Fighting Arts, when everything else fails.
Recognizing that, to many predators, the Art of the Attack is a deadly game they love to play, is a big part of Techniques of Avoidance/Prevention goes a long way toward totally avoiding any meaningful contact with a predator. So, for the purpose of this post, let’s look at some Games (Sexual and) Violent Predators Play:
HELP WANTED ADS.
Many predators are hip to the “Maternal- Help Instincts” of the potential victims whom they have sized up and maybe even stalked for some time. Thousands of women and children have been sucked in by predators wearing casts and struggling with heavy objects. The predator is a sly, wily animal who knows how to play the role perfectly until it is time to pounce. Predators know also how to set their victim up in an ideal location so that when they pounce, their victim is isolated and at a distinct disadvantage.
REFUSAL TO ACCEPT “NO!”
Speaking of “Help Wanted Ads,” the opposite game is even more lethal. The sexual predator might approach a woman or child who is carrying or maybe struggling with an object and will offer their assistance. Perhaps the predator will even be dressed nicely and will act with kindness and consideration. The number one fact that the potential victim must always remember is I don’t even know this guy, which should kick off the natural gut instinct that something is messed up here. If you are wise, you will always nicely but firmly refuse this person’s offer of help. The trick is for the “victim” to understand is a normal man/person will always back off and go on his way. However, the predator will most likely refuse to honor your refusal. He will insist on helping you and might even follow his target (the potential victim) toward his or her car, house or apartment and insist on helping you. What he is hoping for is to break down the resistance well enough for her to allow him to help her. In some actual cases, the woman dropped one of her bags or had trouble picking up one of the objects and the “beast” grabbed it and helped the woman up a flight of stairs, promising all the while to leave the bag outside her door and go on his way. Turned out to be a fatal lie.
THE GRATITUDE AND GUILT GUN.
You may have already heard tell of this one. A lone woman in a shopping mall parking lot found that one of her tires was flat. Along came a man carrying an attaché case. He was nice looking, articulate and kind, and he gently offered to fix her flat tire. The woman, who considered herself unable to fix the flat, accepted the man’s offer, and, after laying his attaché on her car roof, removed his suit jacket and proceeded to fix the tire. The woman thanked the man profusely and offered him money, which he declined. “However,” he said, “my car is all the way on the other side of the mall and I really would appreciate it if you could drive me over there—“
This Game (I call The Gratitude and Guilt Gun Game) almost always works, based upon the age-old human instincts of gratitude for a service rendered, usually a service that is crucial to the victim, and the pangs of guilt that accompany the potential victim’s gut/survival instincts that raise the hair on the back of the victim’s neck and scream in his or her ears to “Get the Hell Out of Here Now! In this case, however, the woman obeyed her Gut Instincts, which, by the way, are never wrong! She apologized to the gentleman but stated that she never goes anywhere with a stranger, especially in a car.
Long story short, turns out that Mall Security drove by at that second and the man walked away leaving his case on her roof. When security checked the case they found a knife, razors, duct tape, a blindfold and a rope.
Trust your Gut Instincts and follow some of my Tough Target Rules to defeat these Deadly Predator Games.
Next Post. More Games and Tough Target Strategies.
Until then. Stay safe.
Hammer