-Desert Pages Your Community Phone Book Morongo Basin/Yucca
Valley, 2004
We received the following tips in
one of our e-mails:
Please take the
time to read the following. I know you are smart enough to
know these
pointers, but there will be some of these where you will go "Hmm, I must
remember that"
After reading
this,
forward it to someone you care about. It never hurts to be careful in this crazy
world we live in.
1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the
strongest point on your body.
If you are close enough to use it, do!
2. Learned this from a tourist guide to
New Orleans:
If a robber asks
for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT
TO HIM. Toss it away from you.... chances are that he is more interested in
your wallet and/or purse than in you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN
LIKE HELL IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!
3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a
car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start
waving like crazy. The driver won't see you but everybody else will. This has
saved lives.
4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars
after shopping, eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their
checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON'T DO THIS! The predator will be watching
you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger
side, put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go.
AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE
DOORS AND DRIVE AWAY.
5. A few notes about getting into your car in a
parking lot, or parking garage:
a. Be
aware: look around you, look into your car, at the passenger side
floor, and in the back seat.
b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter
your car from the passenger
door. Most serial killers attack their
victims by pulling them into their
vans while the women are attempting to get
into their cars.
c. Look at the car parked on the driver's side
of your vehicle, and the
passenger side. If a male is sitting alone
in the seat nearest your car,
you may want to walk back into the mall,
or work, and get a guard
or policeman to walk you back out. IT
IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE
SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better
paranoid than dead.)
6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the
stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).
7. If the predator has a gun and you are NOT
under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator can only hit you (a running target)
4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!
8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you
raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well
educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He
walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked "for help" into his vehicle or
with his vehicle, and that is when he abducted his next victim.
So why don't you forward this to all the women
you know. It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle.
I was going to send this to the ladies only, but guys, if you love your mothers,
wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it onto them, as well.
Earthquakes
Important 10 Tips within this page
Recent Earthquakes in California & Nevada
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
Earthquakes recorded for the last week (168 hours).
American Rescue Team
www.amerrescue.org
My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the
American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue
team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.
I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60
countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many
rescue teams from many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster
Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major disaster in the world
since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.
The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during
the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under their desk. Every child was crushed
to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to
their desks in the aisles.
Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon
the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void
next to them. This space is what I call the "triangle of life".
The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the
object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the
person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you
watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the "triangles" you see formed.
They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in
a collapsed building. They are everywhere.
TEN TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are
crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.
2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You
should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can
survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a
large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an
earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake.. If the
wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the
wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will
break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed
bodies than concrete slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off
the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much
greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on the back of
the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the
bottom of the bed during an earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door
or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or
large chair.
6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed.
How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you
will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be
cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of frequency"
(they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and
remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural
failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail
are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly mutilated. Even if the building
doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the
building to be damaged. Even
if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when
overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even
when the rest of the building is not damaged.
8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible - It is
much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The
farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater
the probability that your escape route will be blocked;
9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an
earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the
slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco
earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could
have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles.
Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their
cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high
next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.
10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other
offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found
surrounding stacks of paper.
Spread the word and save someone's life...
This extract is from Doug Copp's article on the: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"
Edited by Larry Linn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04.
Home Protection
One of the best and least expensive protection devices for your home is to
leave your front porch light on. An intruder is more likely to go a home with
all lights out before approaching one with lights on.
"Beware of dog sign" and a large dog bowl in sight of strangers is a good
deterrent, even if you don't own a dog. Most intruders don't want to take a
chance.
A large pair of men's shoes outside the door is another good
deterrent. They can insinuate a larger strong man is inside the home.
Two Way Mirrors
Do you
know how to determine if a mirror is 2-way or not? This is not to scare you,
but to make you aware.
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how
many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the
wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror (i.e., they can see
you, but you can't see them)? There have been many cases of people
installing 2-way mirrors in female changing rooms. It is very difficult to
positively identify the surface by just looking at it.
So, how do we determine with any amount of certainty what type of mirror we
are looking at?
Just
conduct this simple test:
Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there
is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a
GENUINE mirror.
However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then
BEWARE, FOR IT IS a 2-WAY MIRROR!
So remember, every time you see a mirror, do the fingernail test: 'No
Space, Leave the Place'. It doesn't cost you anything.
Share this with your friends, wife, daughters, daughters-in law, mother,
girlfriends, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers, etc.
Remember: "No Space, Leave the Place" — Better safe than
sorry.
