got to remember your driveway is a
transitional space and you better pay
attention in it
hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection your host
is always john korea and with me again
this saturday our ceo stephanie weidner
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just another day in paradise this lady
is walking out to her very nice mercedes
suv when a couple guys in a lexus suv a
dude jumps out and points a gun at her
she throws her coffee at him uh and then
drops to the ground but he's like nah
fam i need you to get up and again both
of them are armed one with a gun one
with a hammer and make her get up and go
back inside her home and you see the one
guy's got a bag in that bag he has a
hammer and a bunch of stuff to tie her
up and they did take her into her home
and tie her up now what do you see here
you see him using flashlights and the
the colors have changed because this is
a low-light camera it's fairly dark
inside her home where they're going to
steal 2700 worth of her stuff
thankfully they did not harm her more
than simply tying her up a little later
you see this woman come speak creole to
them and then wipe off all the
fingerprints and whatnot broward county
sheriff's office said they have not
caught these folks and have very few
leads if you know anything about it and
we can help please contact them
john i think some people think that
because women are smaller or pound for
pound weaker than men that somehow we
get a pass and we're not going to be
attacked as aggressively or that people
are going to jump in to defend us we see
over and over again that is absolutely
not the case in fact very often we're
targeted for the very reasons that
people think we might be safe so ladies
come on it's up to you
steph this is a transitional space and i
think people get super comfortable
around their home but we see these kinds
of attacks all the time and i think it's
probably a better idea if at all
possible to park your car inside the
garage then fill your garage with crap
and have to park it outside you have
that option i think it's a good one that
gives you the time to get kind of
settled into your car and start your day
you don't have to worry about people
sneaking up on you like this and i also
think again okay if you don't have that
capability and not everybody does i get
it then you've got to recognize that
your driveway is a transitional space
your garage as well you open up your
garage door a transitional space but
paying attention is key because you see
these guys here in this suv just stopped
in the middle of the road and if you see
that that's out of place there's no
reason for them to stop like that so
paying attention might have bought her
an opportunity here if she was a
self-defender but she didn't have that
and it certainly looks like they've been
watching this for potentially some time
because they're waiting for she comes
out they have a bag that they're ready
to grab her and get her back in the
house uh potentially she'd been paying
attention this morning or previous
morning she might have got a heads up
and instead okay so she only gets to see
them when they announce themselves and
point a gun in her face
if you notice there what happened was
was that she's focused on the inside of
her car when you're getting into the car
that's where you focus right because
you're gonna put your stuff in there and
all that stuff so again by this point
there's not a whole lot you're gonna do
you've got to use purposeful compliance
here in order to get yourself to a
better position and and of course she's
going to toss her coffee at them out of
just fear but that's not going to help
you any at this point you are at a
severe disadvantage
i get it and like we say attitude is
important but i don't i don't even
necessarily see that as a half-hearted
defensive maneuver she's not just she's
just fearful and and tosses it and it's
not really any type of plan here now
here's the thing you're going to see her
then drop to the ground
and i actually think that that getting
on the ground if especially if you're
worried about kidnapping right you're
worried about them stuffing you in the
car and taking you drop it on the ground
can be a very good thing now of course
we're going to see the rest of this time
they're going to take her back inside
the house and and we generally see this
as a
you know a self-defense principle that
you've got to let them you know you got
to fight in the location that you are
never let them take you to a second
location because of what that means and
i get it here you are you're alone you
have guns pointed at you they're bigger
they're stronger they can pick you up
and drag you i'm certain that she
probably thinks compliance is the best
option but i really think you've got to
decide that ahead of time that just no
matter what happens you're not going to
that secondary location no one is going
to take you to some place particularly
secluded like your house where they
could be away from anyone that could
interfere have
whatever amount of time they choose to
do whatever they want to do you're far
better off making your stand in the
front yard here even as
i mean she's the odds are highly against
her in this scenario but i will i would
take my chances in the front yard yeah
and again purposeful compliance means
you've got to look for an opportunity to
defend yourself if you have attitude
skills and plan i think she does have
those opportunities here they're like yo
we need you in the house and then they
kind of like you know yeah they're going
to come near her or whatever but not too
hard for her at that point to kind of
make a left around the bushes and give
herself an opportunity or she's facing
away from them to draw a firearm that
she's carrying appendix something like
that to turn the table she has those
opportunities if she were to take them
and even if she's going to end up back
in the house ultimately because they
grab her and drag her there she could
have got around this bush enough to and
with some screaming some yelling maybe
you could get some people calling the
cops you know there's no guarantee there
but at least it would have been
something beyond just walking into the
house i do want to note that she has a
security sign in her front yard you can
see it there on the right hand side and
and once she knows i have no problems
with home security in fact i think home
security is a really good idea but this
kind of home invasion they're just going
to make her disable the system or
they're going to hurt her worse and so
it's not going to help you from the kind
of home invasion that we see here where
they get you on the outside of the house
and again
i think they're going to take her inside
and tie her up and thankfully that's all
they do is tie her up but i think that
that could have ended
far worse in this case which is again
one of the big reasons that they say if
they they want to get you to a secluded
location you got to choose no i'm going
to fight you right now because otherwise
she's tied up and at their women at
their mercy
and at the mercy of of committed felons
there's certainly plenty of stories
where you don't um make it through as
whatever easily as she did and you don't
find out till the end of the story if
they're going to tie you up and leave
you alone or if they're going to tie you
up and brutalize you for hours leave you
for dead or or whatever they choose
because they get to decide all of it
yeah no final thing we see here is the
tailgater right we see the two guys that
are you know attacking her and then this
woman who comes in yells something in
creole and then wipes the doorknobs down
for fingerprints uh okay fine this is a
tough situation stephanie i think the
best bet here is prevention and paying
attention and then being armed and being
able to win the fight before you go back
in the house yeah those were definitely
her best options and i'm grateful that
she wasn't hurt any worse than she was
but i can't imagine the tool that had on
her emotionally in her own home yeah and
that emotional and social toll should
definitely be thought of that's why you
gotta be prepared with attitude skills
and plan