I know you weren't saying that women shouldn't be on their guard, and lets face it so should fellas. These stories are intended to frighten people and to be honest I sometimes feel that they are a form of terrorism, as I said earlier if you believed everything you read in e mails like this, and we must have all had them, you would be too scared to go anywhere.
Hopefully the people who do commit violent crime are still in the minority, but I do think that everybody should be aware of their personal safety and try to minimise their chances of being a victim by using common sense. That includes men too.
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