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A cell phone is not a body guard

Too many people think that carrying a cell phone helps to protect them from a violent, physical attack.  Especially for women, believing that a cell phone protects you against a physical or sexual assault, can be very, very dangerous.  Below is an excerpt from my eBook  Economic Disaster: What the average person can do to prepare.  Please read this excerpt and pass the information along to others.


A cell phone offers very little protection if you are assaulted or attacked.  I sometimes have great difficulty convincing people of this, especially women who feel much safer with a cell phone in their hand.  Yes, a cell phone can be used to summon help, but that help will need time to get there.  If you are being attacked, you do not have that time.  A cell phone is easily knocked or forced from your hand and, during a disaster, might not even be able access wireless service.
To help you understand how useless a cell phone actually is if you are attacked, let us look at a hypothetical situation.  You are a woman walking to your car at night all alone.  You are on your cell phone talking to your boyfriend who is a powerful, 250 pound linebacker for his college football team, and you feel so much safer having him on the phone.  A tough-looking man steps out in front of you and you know immediately that his intentions are not good.  You tell your boyfriend that a man is blocking you from getting to your car and you are scared.  Your boyfriend says he is on his way, runs out of the house, gets in his car, and is rushing to where you are.  He is only three minutes away.  Meanwhile, your attacker punches you hard in the face sending you to the ground.  He knocks the phone from your hand and repeatedly kicks you in the head until your skull is fractured and you are unconscious.  He takes your purse, your cell phone, your engagement ring and runs away.  Only two minutes have passed since the whole thing started.  It takes another minute for your boyfriend to finally arrive.  By the time your boyfriend is on the scene, the only thing he can do for you, is call for an ambulance.

To really understand the futility of trying to use a cell phone for protection from an attacker, go ahead and time two minutes to see how long that really is.  If you take a pillow and beat on it fiercely for two minutes as if you are an attacker beating a victim, I think you will see what I am trying to tell you.  Even if you look at an unrealistic, best-case scenario, the cell phone still proves virtually worthless.  Let us say you are actually already on the phone with the police when the attacker appears.  It is still going to take the police time to get there.  Five minutes would be a very, very good response time and that is still more than the time it took the boyfriend in our example to arrive.  A cell phone is a wonderful tool if your car breaks down, you are locked out of your vehicle, locked out of your home or you need medical care—but it is of almost no use during a physical attack.  For your own safety, please convince yourself, and those you love, that a cell phone is pretty much useless in any kind of physical attack.

Economic DisasterThis excerpt was taken from my eBook:
Economic Disaster:
What the average person
can do to prepare.
Click HERE for more information.

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