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Please distribute: Cities / towns / farms / plots – the same principles apply everywhere:
■ Don’t go out to your “power box” to see what happens when your power goes out – get help from outside first!!
■ Do not go out to see why there is water running from your taps or in your garden – the taps cannot open by themselves – first get help from outside !!
■ Do not go out if someone arrives at your home “calling for help” or “injured” – call the necessary emergency units such as police, ambulance, Security Response Unit, Neighborhood Watch etc!!
■ Do not rush out if your vehicle(s) alarm goes off – there must be a (possibly dangerous) reason for that!!
■ Don’t rush out to see why your dogs are barking urgently and continuously – there must be a (dangerous) reason for that!!
■ Don’t go and see why “there’s a baby crying” at your bedroom window or at your gate – the “Sister Theresa feeling” can cost you your life !!
■ Do not go out if small dogs are left on your porch or at your front door. Then instead call your Security Response Unit,
Neighborhood Watch or SPCA to come out please. Seems to me that’s the new Modus Operandi these days. Criminals put little dogs near your house’s doors at night, waiting for you to come out. DO NOT fall for it!
■ Do not respond to “calls for help” from your workers at night – make an alternative arrangement with them – in a medical emergency, for example, they can call you and you can arrange an ambulance !!
■ Don’t fall for “sales gimmicks” or “repair gimmicks” or “survey tricks” or “job search tricks” – if they can’t make an appointment with you, then they can’t see you!!
■ Do NOT allow strangers at or near your home (day or night) .. always treat it as a possible robbery / farm attack if strangers arrive by vehicle or on foot – immediately call for outside help before they get near you! !
■ Arrange all these emergency drills with your neighbors around you to talk to each other, even if it’s 3 o’clock in the morning and help protect each other from all these cunning tricks!!
■ Get ALL the emergency services, SAPS, Local security, Neighborhood Watch, Security Response Unit and other emergency numbers on your mobile phones and ALWAYS call in help from OUTSIDE FIRST to secure your property BEFORE you rush out yourself!!
■ We are entitled to privacy and a “safe space” around us – don’t let those rights be invaded – enforce them very strictly!!
■ ALWAYS trust your “6th sense”, the “little voice” that warns you or “that feeling” – it’s usually right!!