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Simple But Effective Street Self Defence Trick
If you have an encounter on the street with an aggressive person and it looks like a fight, or other physical aggression is unavoidable, even if you are backing away and attempting to get out of it, and if the person continues to follow and bother you to the point where you believe it will end up becoming physical, move off the side walk and into the middle of a busy street.
This causes traffic to stop and places you in an arena type setting, where there are numerous witnesses to what is about to occur. This move puts the pressure on the offender. He is now a baddy surrounded by a crowd of law abiding people. This no contact strategy can also be used by women.
If the worst happens, someone is much more likely to call 911 or get you medical attention.
Private Investigator Larry Kaye of www.shadowanyone.com gives his real life experience. “In my personal experience when I used this oddly effective trick, once the aggressor found themselves in the middle of the street surrounded by witnesses, he decided it just was not worth the cost to him to continue with his aggression and he decided to walk away rather than continue to attack me.
It was the only real solution. Between you and me, he was a big guy and it would not have ended well for me any other way. This trick saved me from a pretty lopsided beating. I’m certain we were both going to end up in hospital. But I would have had the worst of it for sure.”
