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I want to thank Monica K. for her generosity and hosting my presentation at her home. Monica brought nine of her friends to her home for one of my presentations and introduced me to a lady who had experienced a home invasion. Not only did this woman do all the right things during the home invasion, she told me about her experience with the legal system afterwards. Fortunately, she was released from all guilt and did not have any charges pressed against her. And, the attackers were put away for a long time. Yes, shots were fired in this case.

This brave woman will have to live with that experience for the rest of her life but she has a new understanding of the times we live in and has accepted that she must make some changes in the way she does things now. She did purchase a few of my products but did mention to me that it was just something she knew she must do in this new age. She compared buying my product to having to buy a new computer and cell phone when society turned to the technology age in the 80s. She didn't want to but she understood that that's where society was going and she didn't want to be left behind. The society of today has now turned to security and she knew she had to keep with the times.

Sandra also told me and the group about the time she was approached by a man who asked for directions while pumping gas in her car at a convenience store. While she turned around to point in the direction, the man's accomplice snuck up behind her to attack her. As the pump lock snapped off, she looked back down and noticed the accomplice rushing towards her and she instinctively pulled out the gas nozzle, still  and pointed it at the attacker with gas still spewing out. That was enough to scare him off and he ran away. That was a new scenario that prompted me to investigate this technique and learned that it was a new tactic and had only been reported six other times in Texas and once in Louisiana. Sandra's incident happened north San Antonio.

Here's the scenario in Sandra's incident. A two man team hangs around a gas station or convenience store with gas pumps, the lost man (perpetrator), sometimes holding a map or appearing as a tourist, waits by the street near the gas station while the accomplice waits by the station or store entrance away from the perpetrator. Once a female starts pumping gas in her vehicle, the perpetrator walks up to the female pumping gas, who is committed, and asks for directions to a certain street or location he knows is located in the opposite direction of his accomplice. This is done to ensure that the female victim is facing away from the perpetrators accomplice. While her attention is focused on telling the perpetrator directions, the accomplice is rushing her from behind. The accomplice grabs the victim and her car keys, throws her aside, jumps in the car, the perpetrator jumps in the passeger seat and they drive away with her car.

 More than likely, the victim's purse along with any cash, credit card, identifiers, and personal information is quickly found and exploited. Not to mention her car could be used in further crimes.

My take on this crime is that the criminals may now know the victim's name by the content of her car, where she lives and works, and may have her garage door opener, house keys, cell phone which may give them access to her online accounts which may wreak more havoc in her life. If she had a gun in her car that was used in a future crime, there could be legal implications for her.

Let's take this scenario a step further, what if you were the victim in that scenario and you left your cell phone in the car? What valuable, embarrassing, or incriminating information on that cell phone could the criminals use to their advantage or use against you?

I'm not trying to scare anyone here but, I just want you to realize that the crooks are getting smarter and are now using human nature to get you to let your guard down to victimize you. I want you to realize that we now live in a different time and you must know that your personal safety is reliant on what you know.

Knowledge is protection.

Dave