Who here feels unsafe in their community?

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I believe that when someone comes in your house with bad intent once they step inside anything that happens to them is their own fault. People should have every right to defend themselves. Even if it is the law, the law is sometimes wrong. Thats what garbage disposals are for.

Is it a bad idea to recommend taking up a martial art? Just to feel a bit more secure in yourself and have some recourse if things kick off. Also helps with losing the 'victim vibe', as I think ToughDiamond called it.

I highly recommend taking up martial arts.

Sounds good to me. Any kind of self-defense training ought to help. And there's always the crafty old trick of pretending to blubber and then suddenly kicking the assailant in the nuts and running like hell. But you'll need practice.

People in the USA are allowed to carry a pepper spray, people in the UK aren't. Pity, I've heard those things are quite effective on most jerks. Personally I think they should be legal for anybody who has never committed an unprovoked crime of violence, and they should carry a 5-year jail tariff for anybody who has.

And keep alert in unsafe areas. Sometimes they ask you the time just to get you to look at your watch - do NOT hyperfocus on your watch, because an accomplice might be sneaking up on you as you do that. Take a good look round, with fists and feet ready to swing into action.

In Europe (with one or two exceptions) this simply is neither possible nor legal.

If you're offering though I'll take one of these:



Show the chavs who's boss. Not that we get many round here in any case.

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A: Sir.

Wow, I didn't know it could be so unsafe around one's own livingspace. So I almost feel bad to say that my house & neighbourhood is an absolutely safe place to be. The only danger is increased number of gangsters in the town and surrounding area.

I feel pretty much exactly the same as you. I don't trust people around here in London, and the statistics don't exactly help that either (over 200 phones are stolen every second in the UK, for example).

I live in an area often considered posh (the kind of place where the houses cost over a million pounds), and I feel relatively safe when I'm out here, which I guess is also because it's an area I know well. But I still rarely go out on my own, and prefer to stay inside.

Another reason for that is because I just don't have much reason to go out - NTs do it to hang out with their friends, but I have much more productive ways to spend my time.

The so-called city I'm stuck in is really an overgrown country town as it is, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that the lower-class outer suburb where I live adds insult to injury. As I walk to the supermarket up the road (10 minutes away), it's commonplace to have carloads of yahoos yell out at me, and once of twice someone's swerved at me (too bad if they miscalculated and ran me over).

Last October, there was a massive fight, involving roughly 8-10 people, at the service station a two-minute walk from here

Then in November, two thugs started getting verbally aggressive at the local shopping mall, because they didn't like the way I looked at someone they didn't know. The literally chased me all the way to the other side of the complex, where one of them stuck his arm out to block me off, by I just broke free to climb into a taxi that was there. They yelled through the front passenger window at the driver (who was obviously South Asian) not to take me because I was a "racist c**t" (for the record, the thugs were white - obviously it's not just chattering-class types who hate their own race!), but after several seconds (which felt like several minutes), the driver finally made up his mind and moved away with me in the cab and them not.

So I do not feel at all safe in this area. But because of a government-engineered housing shortage, and because of employers' prejudices, I cannot escape the beer-and-belting suburbs.

I love it when people stick their arms out, because it means they're about to land awkwardly on their ass.

After reading these post; I'm starting to feel kind of lucky. I live in a rural town that's between a big town & a city. The stores are over 15 miles away. Parents own house with a decent yard. No side-walk or anything here & I don't see anyone when I go outside except people in cars on road.
I live in south Louisiana & I'm starting to get concerned about all the oil in the golf rite now. I smell crude-oil. I wouldn't be surprised if someone lightning a cigarette blows up half our state A large amount of our economy is based on oil & sea-food & crime in other parts of the state like New Orleans(I live an hour away) is really bad so I'm kind of worried that the rest of this state will go to hell to

I am 6'2" tall and I weigh 290 LBS people have a tendancy to get out of my way when I am walking down the sidewalk.

Wow! Reading some of these stories is making my reconsider leaving east Asia.
I've never felt unsafe anywhere here. I have explored dark alleys, mountains, and highways alone at night and never felt in danger. I've slept in a park, at train stations, in an airport, and in long distance buses and even if was uncomfortable I still felt safe. I wouldn't be OK doing any of these things in the states.

If your non-violent you can get yourself a can of wasp/hornet/bee spray and use it like mace. My brother was a delivery van driver for a pharmacy one of his co-workers had wasp spray in her van. Some guy tried to pull her out of the van to get at the cash and drugs she had in the van so she let him have it with the wasp spray. The Cops said they could not believe how much damage the spray did to the car jacker. They had to take him to the emergency room. Her phobia of wasps paid off. Just remember if the police ask you why you had wasp spray tell them you have Aspergers and are afraid of stinging insects. Thats right play the Asperger card.

I know the type I carry mace and cannot wait to use it, I will certainly throw some kicks and punches in on him while he is in pain from the mace. Mess them up with something like wasp spray then run they will not mess with you again. Its a damn shame you live in country that does not allow its citizens non-lethal defense sprays to defend themselves. You might want to invest in a heavy walking stick just make sure to hold it in a way you look like you might use it. They are looking for an easy victim they never take on someone who looks hard or confident or capable of hurting them. Do you have your head down when you walk? Keeping your head up you will see them sooner and can avoid them easier.

PS.... Whats a chav?

Our neighborhood is not very nice out on the main road but we are kind of hidden on a private drive. Still I have no place to walk my kids or let them ride bikes as we have no sidewalks. I will be sure to find someplace I feel more safe when we move.
We did have a peeping tom one night, my poor AS daughter was about 15 at the time and she was hanging up her new curtains and there was a guy in our yard (you can guess what he was doing). That was very scary, but by the time the cops got here he was long gone.

The british version of trailer trash.