- Whether it's terrorism abroad
or going from home to work,
a good day can go bad at any given time
and what used to be the wrong place
at the wrong time has quickly become
any place at any time.
So being prepared for worse case scenario
becomes important, kidnapping and violent crimes
being the worst.
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One deadly skill that you should know how to do
is hide tools on your body that can allow you
to escape a bad situation.
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The two most valuable tools to carry
is a handcuff key and a razor blade.
I recommend with the razor blades
you wrap it up in duct tape and you dog ear it in
so that you can get to the blade.
This also prevents you cutting yourself
when you're trying to get to it.
Razor blade will get you out of duct tape,
rope, twine or zip ties.
Most people don't know but one handcuff key
can get you out of all handcuffs.
They're all keyed the same.
A great place to hide these is
maybe a handcuff key in your right shoe
and your razor blade in your left shoe.
If your hands are bound together,
whether it's in front or behind you,
you can always slip down to your shoes
to get to your tools.
If you know you're going to a high risk area,
where the potential of violent crime
and kidnappings could occur, hide everything behind
the bandage portion of a Band-Aid.
Right behind there, the non-stick area,
you could put a handcuff key and the razor blade
and then put it on your body in an area
in which your hands can get to if they're bound together.
You can also get a little more exotic and make
a silicone scar of some sort, hide tools in the scar
and put the scar somewhere on your body.
In the worst case scenario is if you get stripped down
naked and they take your shoes and they take everything,
you at least still have your tools on your body.
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Let's say you find yourself in the trunk
of your own car and you have no idea how to get out.
When people get kidnapped, there are times
when they are put into their own vehicle,
in their own trunk.
We're going to go ahead and go over the
anatomy and physiology of a trunk
and show you exactly what to do
so you can get out.
Number one takeaway is never allow yourself
to get to the first stop.
When they abduct you, they're not going
to do a great job restraining you.
But when they get to the first stop, they will.
You want to avoid that at all costs.
Since 2007, 2008, all manufacturers have been
required to put an emergency trunk latch
inside all makes and models.
For this vehicle, we have the emergency release right here.
It's a glow in the dark little lever
that is directly connected to the latch lock.
In older model vehicles, that's 2008 or older,
you're going to have to dig through the molding
of the vehicle in the trunk and actually get
to the lock and then find the working parts
of it and manually unlatch it.
The next means of escape is through the back seats.
In newer model vehicles, the seat release
is sometimes located right there in the trunk.
Older model vehicles, you're going to have
to kick those seats down.
Another means of escape is what you're laying on
when you're inside and that is the spare tire jack.
The tire jack is usually located underneath
a false floor inside the trunk.
You want to grab that thing and you're gonna pull it out,
put it together, you're going to put it down
on solid surface and you're gonna start cranking it.
As you crank it from the inside,
it's going to break the trunk lock
and then allow you to escape.
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If you find yourself abducted or kidnapped
and handcuffs are being used to restrain you,
it's important to know how to get out of them.
There are three techniques in order to bypass handcuffs
other than using the key.
You either pick it, shim it or pry it apart.
Picking is pretty difficult to explain
because you need to know what you're feeling for
on the inside and you need to do it a lot
while being restrained
in order to be good at it
if this comes your way.
The easiest way is to shim it.
The goal is to get something thin enough
and sturdy enough to go in between
the ratchet teeth and the ratchet itself inside.
There's very few things out there
so ideally you have a shim that's already pre-made
but a bobby pin will work.
I'm going to use the back end of a tension wrench.
The first thing you want to do is get in between
the case and the teeth.
The most important thing about this,
in order for it to work when these are on your wrists,
is you've got to have at least a little bit of slack
in the ratchet.
You can't have the handcuffs on all the way.
You're actually going to make the handcuffs
tighter at least by four clicks.
And then once it's in, between the ratchet teeth
and the ratchet, now you can just open up
and you're out.
One of the three means of escaping the handcuffs is
trying to bend the double bow portion of the cuff.
You try and pry it apart and break the rivet.
You're going to take something just as hard
or harder than the handcuffs,
obviously another piece of metal, and you're gonna
put it in there and you're gonna want to
draw this all the way up on your arm.
As you start to twist, you can see a gap form.
Now this is going to be painful.
In a life or death situation, the pain and the blood
that this causes isn't going to matter.
Freedom is what matters and by twisting this,
it's going to cut my arm in several places,
eventually it's going to break the rivet
and then I'll be free.
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If you feel like you're being followed
but you're not sure on how to detect it,
there's a simple acronym that will help you.
T.E.D.D. Ted.
T stands for time,
E stands for environment,
D stands for distance
and the second D stands for demeanor.
These four principles are used to determine
whether somebody is stalking you or not.
Time: Take your movements, your pattern of life,
your daily habits.
You want to switch up those times.
That pattern of life is always the same.
Anybody watching will be able to take advantage of you.
When you leave your home to go to work each morning,
it should be different, even though it's
pretty much probably the same right now.
In the times in which you stay at different locations
extend the time or shorten it,
depending on what you've done the time prior.
Environment: If you're always going to the same places,
well, you need to change them up.
Go to different environments.
The same thing with distance.
You want to increase distance and shorten distances
between your stops.
Demeanor: Your demeanor needs to project something
of confidence of what you're doing,
where you're going at all times and that
your head's on a swivel and you're looking around
and you're always ready.
And that will deter most of your stalkers.
Now how does all that help you
when someone is following you and how do you
determine whether or not you're being followed?
Well, if your changing up your times
but you're still seeing someone,
if you're increasing or decreasing your distance
between stops and you're still seeing someone
and if you're changing the environment
on a regular basis, and you still see
that same person, well then you can confirm
that yes, you are being stalked.
Demeanor is a big one.
A bad guy is going to give off certain signals.
If he's used to a certain pattern of life
and then you change it up, his demeanor is
going to show that.
He's used to you driving by at a certain time
and you don't, then he might present himself
out in the open looking for you.
If you go into a store and you stay in there
for an extended period of time,
well then he may come in and actually look for you.
It can be all four of these things
or it can be just one or two of these things.
Leveraging time, environment, distance and demeanor
and changing those all up at all times
will allow you to determine whether or not
you're being followed.
If you can confirm that you're being followed,
first rule, let people know around you.
Number two, call 911.
Make sure you pay attention to what they're wearing.
If you feel threatened, well now you need
to go into more of a run, hide, fight stance.
If you can run, increase distance,
increases survivability.
If you can hide, hide behind things
that actually conceal you or stop bullets
and then if you need to fight,
you find yourself in the bathroom,
you find yourself in a confined environment,
well then try to team up with others
first of all but if you're by yourself,
look for improvised weapons and be ready to fight
and be as offensive, as violent if not more,
than your adversary if you want to win.
We've just touched on some skills that have
helped me and I hope they help you.
It's better to know them than not
and I hope that you never have to use them.
Be safe and good luck out there.
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