Alright, I know that many women out there believe that the old check your backseat before you get in your car thing is just an old wives tale.

Well first I would like to say, you’re wrong! Ahh, I love telling people that this in fact has happened many times over the years and is so easy to avoid that it is plain silly not to take the 2 second precaution.

To really drive the point home lets take a look at the car maker Lexus. They have recently been showing commercials for there new G80 I think is the model number. The commercial shows a women at dusk walking alone to her car, there are only about 4 or 5 other cars left in the parking lot. She looks down at her remote while she is still way off maybe 50 feet or more from her car and the heartbeat monitor is blinking red so she turns and runs away.

So whats up with the remote? Simple the heartbeat monitor detects someone in your car and blinks the heartbeat red light to tell you long before you get near your car. Still sound like b.s, urban legend or an old wives tale?

The problem is serious enough for one of the major car makers to include this as a security feature and market it! This really does happen and even without the heartbeat sensor you can be safer.

Get a personal alarm with a flashlight and have it out in one hand and in the other hand have your stun gun or pepper spray. But the point is be on your guard, take the few seconds to double check your car before you get too close and carry some type of self defense product so that if the worst happens you are ready to react!

Now for any men reading this who even with this info, can’t get your wife and/or girlfriend to take the 2 seconds to check their car, maybe a more direct approach is in order.

Hide in the back of her car one night and pop up after she gets in and she’ll see how easy it is for someone to do this to her. Now you may get “cut off” for a month or so but after she is done being angry and starts to believe you did this for her benefit and not just cause the look on her face was hilarious, everything should be good. I say this in jest if you actually do it she might kill ya!

Stay safe out there and kick em where it counts!

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