"MEN WILL NEVER ASK A RANDOM WOMEN FOR HELP!" Wrong. Doesn't mean you have to help, but some men ask.

I was told if possible go for the weak points of the face. Eyes are fantastic, push hard, and slamming the base of palm (where it joins with arm) in upwards motion on nose or use elbow. Pull hair and ears, basically fight dirty. The moment you go for the face instinctively people will put both arms up to defend. Never just yell for help or scream people have a tendency not to want to get involved instead yell fire. People will pay attention. If driving speed, break laws, get other cars to notice you.

Women, trust your instincts (I don't think men have this as much). If a guy just creeps you out....for 'no reason,' RUN. Never engage. They take that as encouragement and that you 'like' them. Avoid that person at all costs.

Street Smarts!!!!

Love the comments ‘buy a gun’.... not an option for anyone outside the US. If you have a gun, most probably so do they. Another thing always said over here (UK), if you have an intruder in your house and you are threatened - go to your kitchen. You know where the knives are, they don’t

I was told that if someone is trying something, you should swear at the top of your lungs, people are more likely to look your way at swearing than screaming "help"

I once had to fight off a big guy who was pulling me into a corner of a club (foam party, so obscured from view). I have never hit someone in the face harder in my life. The next morning, my knuckels were bruised. I fought for my life, because that is exactly what was at stake. I kicked and stomped and scratched and went almost feral. I am 5"4, he was at least 6"1. Needless to say he left me alone, we called the police and he got arrested.

This is such victim-blaming rubbish. Many, many women, when assaulted, instinctively avoid "fight" or "flight" but instead choose "freeze" or "appease". Freeze means your body goes still and you sometimes feel very far away, as if it's happening to someone else. Appease means you comply to avoid confrontation and injury. Afterwards, a parade of people will tell you that you should have fought, and it makes you feel like you failed, even if your strategy worked and you survived.

The fork comment made me laugh, pew pew!!

Consider the sounds that you make. My kid was taught at school not to scream but instead to make a really loud moaning sound. It freaks people out because it's unnatural, and so they will get curious. The more eyes and ears involved, the less likely you'll get hurt.

There was a beautiful young woman who was walking across Clapham Common (London) during the lockdown. It is very dark at night. She was talking on her phone and may not have noticed she was being followed by a car. An off duty Policeman (who was licensed to carry a gun) stopped her, they were seen on CCTV and then vanished. He drove her to a distant location, raped and strangled her then burnt her body. He was found very quickly which is good. This was absolutely horrendous and put everyone here in shock. I often think about it, he is still in prison awaiting trial. He will not say why he did it, he was married with two children. Any advice which could avoid this situation is welcomed.

The "asking a woman for help" part really resonated with me. Pretty sure the neighbor lady (I lived in Seattle) was an almost victim of Ted Bundy back in the 70's. Some guy with a cast on his arm (a well known Bundy ploy) asked her for help getting something (groceries, I think?) into the back seat of his car, which was parked at the end of the lot where lighting was really dim. She thought something was off, but as we're taught from kindergarten, women don't want to seem "rude". So she just said she had shoulder problems, but would be happy to ask her husband to come help. (She wasn't married). Miraculously, he managed to get whatever it was into the backseat by himself and drove off. She fit his preferred target to a T - 20's, long hair parted in the middle, athletic build, etc. She ended up in therapy after he was caught.

This seems like questionable advice. Yes, this would work in many cases. But if the kidnapper was taking you for ransom and would rather kill you than be caught, then you resisting would actually make it more likely that you'd be killed than if you'd gone with him.

I agree to noise. Doesn't work in the middle of night and nowhere, but everywhere else. But ... I do ask random people, some happen to be women, for help, like directions or so ... just so happens that I don't know every place work sends me to. Aiming for the eyes is also useful, as it not only may compromise their vision, but hurts truly bad. Ever compared the force you need to apply on your own eyeball until it starts hurting with the force your hands can apply? Tells you how it's gonna work. And DO NOT STOP until the opponent is, by whatever means, physically unable to follow and/or hurt you! If this includes breaking bones, it does. Not your decision to get into a fight with you, so you should get to decide the fight's outcome...

See? I told you I read this before. There's another post here somewhere about psychological tricks and how getting people to follow you when you talk to them and I commented 'you should never let them take you to a second location!'

If you are in dire straits and just have to get help - do not just stand by the road and wait for someone to stop. Instead run out (carefully) and make a car stop and help you. The chances of you picking a bad dude is far less than a bad dude picking you. And yes, scream "FIRE" loudly and repeatedly - it definitely works.

Instead of yelling help start screaming as loud as you can your name, what's happening, and what this person looks like if there's nobody around - don't be afraid to run like hell & if you can - keep yelling.

I'm sure future kidnappers will read this article and take steps to counter these measures.

I keep a knife in my pillow

I've always told my children that if anything like that should ever happen to them they have my permission to swear very loudly. Kids play all sorts of games so alot of their shouting can be ignored. If you hear a kid swearing there's no way you're not going to want to see what's going on.

A small weapon can be like a file or a pair of pointy tweezers. You can't get in trouble for carrying it on you but it can hurt

#3 is weird. Kidnapping is done to bribe money, then you get out alive, but here it isays you'll get killed anyway. Dubious advice. Kick them in the balls, they be be demobilised for a few seconds, then poke them in the eyes. Job done.

Carry a gun, pepper spray, a baton, some kind of weapon.

Isn't this just commen sense? We all know this right?

So, I'm curious. Is this kind of kidnapping and such a huge deal in USA? Or countries nearby? Having grown up in Northern Europe, we've had some kidnapping cases but not an extremely alarming amount (though of course the amount should be zero). I guess we mostly have cases in which the kidnapper and kidnappee know each other. It's couples that have serious issues and don't let the other partner leave etc. Or take their kids and don't let the other partner meet them.

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Yay, today's kidnaping advice article, right on schedule.

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People, don't listen to advice from a man from TikTok.

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Fight the attacker fully naked, it always scares them off