when you're the intended victim of
violence keep thinking keep planning and
look for your opportunity welcome to
today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's video
comes to us out of Birmingham Alabama in
the United States and it shows a woman
who keeps thinking when she's been
abducted in order to protect herself
make sure to go read the news stories on
this one this woman is confronted
outside her apartment by a man who
sticks a gun in her face says give me
her money and she hasn't on she's a
college student so she says she has
nothing so he takes her by gunpoint
stuffs her in the trunk of her car takes
her ATM card starts driving around and
making withdrawals from her ATM card but
she's a college student so she doesn't
have much and when they come to this
place he says to her on this last one
that if this doesn't work he is going to
kill her that was his stated words again
from the news stories on this so they
pull into this ATM at a gas station and
he gets out she starts thinking he is
gonna kill me at this point so he goes
in and tries to get money but of course
it doesn't work the guy says it's not
working now he gets back in the car and
she realizes she's got trouble so she
uses a light from her insulin pump to
see the trunk release in the trunk of
the car and bails out while he's trying
to get out of the parking lot
runs hard into the gas station asks the
owner to help her to hide her until cops
come they do and again if you go read
the news story a couple days later they
caught this guy because he was a violent
felon in possession of firearms was
convicted of kidnapping several other
crimes and was sentenced to life without
parole great work by this lady to
maintain her attitude keep thinking
about protecting herself and getting out
of the danger zone I want to think in
today's video about several significant
lessons including why I talk about all
the time that nothing good happens at a
second location I want to think about
running off and running to safety not
just running away from danger and about
the importance of emotional fitness to
your self-defense let's begin with the
thought that nothing good happens at a
second location I say this on the
channel all the time that if they're
gonna stuff you in a trunk or if they
are going to take you to another
location
that that's the time to fight and this
girl didn't and and it worked out okay
for so you know success covers a
multitude of sins that said nothing good
was happening when he stuffed her in the
trunk of the car he said he was going to
kill her he had threatened her with
raping her and he was going to do some
damage and and he had her at his utter
whim could have driven her out to a
remote area done anything he wanted so
we say don't let yourself get taken to a
second location instead stay left to
bang on this and make sure that you
don't get in these kind of situations to
begin with is the answer there now as
he's pulling in and he's gonna get out
of the car and it said if this doesn't
work I'm coming back for you she knows
she's got a minute while that's working
but she's not gonna get too far from him
however that might have been the
opportunity to go and she knew he was
out of the cars she could have gotten
out there that said I love her emotional
fitness here she realized it didn't work
and she said in the news story that he
accelerated hard when he pulled out of
the the spot so she knew he was mad and
knew she had to go and that takes great
emotional fitness to not get scared to
go to condition black and go oh no what
am I gonna do and then freeze instead
she said I have to act and she chose to
act and that is exactly the right thing
to do in this instance that emotional
fitness that says I have to protect
myself I have to be ready to to do what
I need to do and to do it takes great
emotional fitness it takes a willingness
to be your own first responder no one's
coming to save you and she said if she
didn't do something she knew he was
gonna kill her and so she decided to act
now notice here as well that she pops
that trunk great ingenuity there and I
think that there's this idea that she
had a little light on her well gosh guys
this is a great reminder for all of us
to carry handheld lights to carry
something for a dark spot and I don't
think many of us are gonna get stuffed
in a trunk but I use my handheld light
every day and in an emergency situation
like this can be incredibly important
they can be had very cheaply and and
almost are disposable in that instance
so keep a light on you now notice as
well as she is going to get out of this
one here and then she hits the ground
hard but notice that she runs hard in
that moment and of course getting out of
the danger zone incredibly important
getting out of the danger zone
incredibly important but don't just run
from danger run to safety notice that
she is headed towards where people are
headed to where she where she feels
safety is headed not just away from the
car
but towards safety towards people
towards somebody who can help her and
that's incredibly wise don't just run
away from the danger run to safety and
look for that and keeping that in mind
if ever you have to run run to safety
incredibly important now of course here
is the owner he's going to hey what the
heck is going on and when she explains
to him he hides her in this you know
storage room locks the door calls the
cops a guy had run off anyways but let's
think really quickly about stepping in
as a bystander here and and you got a
recognized folks that stopping a
kidnapping stopping something like this
you know which is obviously a heinous
felony against the person is a moral
good and there are some things that are
so shocking that you probably have to
step in but if you do you better have
the attitude and the skills and the plan
to protect yourself and whoever it is
you're stepping into in this particular
instance I would certainly say you would
want to be tooled up make sure that you
have your firearm on your person make
sure that you know what's going on if
that guy decides to come in and fight
about it that you're able to help her
and protect yourself I think it's a
moral good what he did and I'm proud of
him for doing it but make sure that you
have the attitude the skills and the
plan to do that if you choose to step in
and if you choose to help her which I
think you absolutely have to in this
instance it's a moral imperative at the
end of the day I'm so proud of this
young woman for keeping her wits about
her for having emotional fitness for
doing what she had to do for running to
safety for knowing that she had to
protect herself and covering her ASP
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