Personal Safety

[user 7704]

A major concern for me is seeing, mostly in tv and and movies because I live in woods , is when I see people jogging or walking alone and they are wearing ear buds listening to music.

Anyone could come up behind them and they wouldn't have a clue.

When I'm alone, I looking around constantly and listen for footsteps.

 

[brandx]

It is vital to safety to use all the senses. I have used listening devices but turned down so I can hear what is going on around me.

 

[Silent Earth]

A major concern for me is seeing, mostly in tv and and movies because I live in woods , is when I see people jogging or walking alone and they are wearing ear buds listening to music.

Anyone could come up behind them and they wouldn't have a clue.

When I'm alone, I looking around constantly and listen for footsteps.

its called Evolution or Darwinism, these are the evolutionary dead ends of the tree of Homosapiens, IE **** *********.

Its like people getting out of their cars to use ATMs after dark, people strolling down the street staring at cell phones without looking at whats happening or moving in the shadows, people driving with the car stereo blaring and not forgetting those who say " Hey I hear shooting lets go and have a look" They come from the same section as the " Hold my beer and let me show you how to shoot"

 

[lonewolf]

"situational awareness" must become second nature.

 

[brandx]

I had a great dog that went with, when not bringing home a squirrel for lunch was keeping an eye out.

 

[lonewolf]

"The Masses" are stupid and as I've been told- you cant fix stupid, so lets not try.

 

[Maverick]

Complacency is a self imposed trap, kindly hard to feel sorry for them people!

 

[Gazrok]

Can't fix stupid.

 

[Kevin L]

Some people are so stupid...that if their brain was an atom bomb, it wouldn't be big enough to blow their nose.

An ex-boss of mine qualifies here.

 

[TexasFreedom]

I think you can fix stupid, bear with me... An example they put fencing along part of the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Think about that. Historically that cliff edge was there to fix stupid. Stupid people walked up to it, looked over the edge, and fell to their death.

Note that I didn't say that you can CURE stupid. I said that stupid can be fixed. Taking stupid out of the gene pool is the fix.

I hope you enjoyed that.

 

[DrHenley]

Last time I was at the Grand Canyon, not only did people look over the edge, they climbed out on narrow outcroppings so they could look over the edge all around them.

There was a lot of stupidity on parade that day.

 

[Silent Earth]

Stupidity defined

 

[user 6493]

Stupidity defined

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an ageless question

are we there yet???????????????????????????

YES

 

[Dani]

It's very difficult to interact with one of those people who wear those ear piece headphones listening to their music. Before store opens where I work employees are allowed to use them. You go in try to say hello, they don't hear you, you need to ask them a questuon, ya got to get their attention by waving your hands right in front of them or tapping them on the shoulder. Used to be a surprise tap would make some people jump, but the kids now days, well it's just normal. . . no suprise. Guess they are used to it and nothing bad ha s ever happened to them maybe to make them feel the need to situational awareness.

Years ago I was working the truck. Pallet on edge of department so that workers on one side, customers in the other. My backside was towards where the workers were so I could see the other way. One co-worker came up behind and touched me in an off wall spot to surprise me to say hello. I turned with fits up. . . She has never done that again.

 

[Mountain trapper]

On my previous jobs anyone caught with head phones on was terminated on the spot. Personal cell phone use wasn't allowed on the job either. Anyone using a personal cell phone on the job during work hours was terminated too. Around the drilling rigs even jewelry wasn't allowed; zero tolerance. It was a very simple policy to understand, violaters would be terminated immediately.
We expected our employees to be adults, not pampered children.

 

[lonewolf]

Stupidity defined

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those photos show just exactly what I have been saying on various forums for years.

 

[Squirtgunsquirter]

By the time I am sixty, I will move through places like a ghost, unconnected and unnoticed by anyone around me.

Already there are public places I go that probably fifty percent of the people don't even look up. They never even know I was there.

 

[lonewolf]

it happens all the time, they are either on their screens or they have headphones in and never know there is a car behind them.
or has happened recently in one of our big cities, mobiles got stolen by gangs on mopeds.
if they don't practise(or don't know about) "situational awareness" then they are going to suffer.

 

[SheilaT.]

On my previous jobs anyone caught with head phones on was terminated on the spot. Personal cell phone use wasn't allowed on the job either. Anyone using a personal cell phone on the job during work hours was terminated too. Around the drilling rigs even jewelry wasn't allowed; zero tolerance. It was a very simple policy to understand, violaters would be terminated immediately.
We expected our employees to be adults, not pampered children.

The firm where my son works for has the same policies.

 

[DrHenley]

Where my son works, all personal electronics go into a locker when they enter the building.

 

[Silent Earth]

1 Listen, read and watch the LOCAL new BEFORE you go out, Listen to your radio for incidents in your area
2 Be the Grey man / women / whatever, Keep your bling out of sight.
3 Be constantly situationally aware of what is going on around you and what others are doing.
4 Go equipped to protect yourself
5 ALWAYS have an escape route planned AND checked out
6 Your EDC gear goes ON YOU not in your bag, in your car or office, if your wearing a bum / fanny bag / pack it goes to your FRONT
7 If you FEEL something is not right then the chances it IS not right, INSTINCTs is your subconscious telling you that you missed a threat.
8 Heading back to your vehicle / heading home in your vehicle after getting cash or spending money ensure you are not being followed.
9 All your expensive, enhanced, customised expensive survival guns/ knives/ kit is useless if you don't have it with you.
10 Being afraid is fine it sharpens your senses, being hysterical and following the herd is stupid and likely to get you killed. REACT do not PANIC.

 

[lonewolf]

its on the street where personal safety is compromised, heads down playing with their mobile, either texting or playing games, they don't have a clue who or what is going on around them and they leave themselves open to assault and or injury.
I have a mobile, its an old basic model and it stays in my pocket for a month at a time, its only used for emergencies.

 

[user 7704]

By the time I am sixty, I will move through places like a ghost, unconnected and unnoticed by anyone around me.

Already there are public places I go that probably fifty percent of the people don't even look up. They never even know I was there.

Only thing is, that at 60 (I'm 59) my joints are creaking and would give away my position.

 

[DrHenley]

Only thing is, that at 60 (I'm 59) my joints are creaking and would give away my position.

LOL, I wish there were some kind of oil can I could use on my hip and knee.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Yesterday I took my wife to the airport, which is on the other side of a large city (actually a small city by most peoples standards). This time of year it's a 9 hour round trip from home. It was amazing to me to see the number of people on cell phones while driving through the city. Not just talking on the phone, but texting on the damn thing while driving at over 80 MPH!

 

[lonewolf]

using a mobile whilst driving is illegal in the UK, unless its a hands free kit, not that the police have charged many much less convicted them, I see it all the time when i'm on the road.

 

[TexasFreedom]

Doc,
I got a bottle a year or two ago of an essential oil blend called "Pain Eraser". When the pain kicks up, it's a roll-on (like a deodorant roll-on bottle). Give it a minute and it works like magic. I know it was a fellow here in Texas who made it, at the time he was setting up a website.

But it really works on joints. I can't find it right now (I think my wife took it & hid it! conspiracy theory...). It was a white bottle with a red box & a lightning bolt through it. Something like $20/bottle, but worth $100 when I need it.

 

[lonewolf]

how old are you lot?i've just had my 70th birthday and I don't even take pain killers

 

[Maverick]

No cell phone allowed while working, I might add no rings period, we have a lot of equipment with pinch points.

In fact, if I’m driving no radio, I want to listen to the vehicle not music, ya trips could be quite boring if riding with me!

 

[lonewolf]

I wont have a radio on in a car, I want to concentrate on what is going on on the road not listen to rubbish music or someone dribbling on.
I changed my car awhile ago and my new car hasn't got a radio, the previous one did, which suits me fine, the space where the radio was is more useful than having a radio. I don't have sat nav either and I wont have it.