Security experts the world over agonise over threat assessments which they are asked to compile by anxious parents whose child or children are set to take a gap year out to tour the world. One of the first pieces of security advice I always incorporate in my threat assessments is security expert advice about the dangers of hitch hiking. Given my skills in this area, the owners of www.asecurityonestopshop.com asked me to write the following article titled Security Experts Top 10 Tips To Prevent Being Attacked While Hitch Hiking by Mark Yates, The British American Security Expert at www.asecurityonestopshop.com
This is one of the areas of security where you can follow the first security tip in this list of Top 10 Tips To Prevent Being Attacked While Hitch Hiking and you won’t need to learn the other nine security experts tips. But before I grant you access to this valuable snippet of obvious security information, I’d like to ask you three simple questions to gauge your security awareness in order to prevent being attacked while hitch hiking.
Given that the majority of people reading this article are probably concerned parents, I’m assuming that they have more life skills in relation to general security and therefore I expect the parents to score better than their children in this simple test.
Before answering these three questions, I want you to assume that you are hitch hiking because you have to. Assume there is an emergency and you have no money and not other means of getting from your current location to where you need to be. You are out on the highway thumbing a lift and the following three people stop to offer you a ride. Which one would you trust the most?
Driver 1: The car stops and a well dressed 46 year old male in a suit and tie opens his window and asks you where you want to go. You see inside his car that he has a Doctor on Call sticker on his sun visor and a Doctor’s emergency siren and flashing light mounted on his dashboard. It’s clear he’s a genuine Doctor.
Driver 2: The car stops and a female driver aged late thirties asks you where you want to go. She has a wonderful smile and is quite endearing. She voices concern that you shouldn’t be hitch hiking alone.
Driver 3: The car stops and a 22 year old man and his young wife lean out of the window and ask where you want to go. You see he is a manual worker and their 8 month old daughter is properly strapped into a car seat in the rear of the car. The man fusses over his daughter like a loving parent. They have bags of food shopping in the car.
If you trust Driver 1 the most, you’re crazy. In April 2009 a UK Doctor GP was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to 32 charges relating to maintaining indecent and pornographic images of pre-teens. He was convicted, sent [...]