Getting into the car with strangers – kidnapping advice
Do you think your child would get into a car with a stranger? Most parents answer “No way! I’ve warned my children many times.” Well, you might be in for a nasty surprise. The videos shown below are social experiments filmed to bring awareness to children and adults as to how easy it is for predators to snatch your child.
Here are some of the techniques used to lure children and teenagers into a car:
- The fancy car. Most children will recognize “Bumblebee” from the movie Transformers. So, when they are offered a chance to ride in it – it is an offer too good to refuse.
2. Follow the leader. Groups of children approached at the same time. If one goes, the others are likely to follow. There is no safety in numbers in this example.
3. The cute puppy ploy. Watch this social experiment by Joey Salads. It’s the oldest trick in the book because it works. What child can resist a cuddly puppy?
4. Teenagers should know better.
Before you think that this only applies to young children, please watch this video by Coby Persin. The parents were involved in this experiment and they believed that their teenagers would NEVER climb into a car with someone they’d only communicated with online.
So, before you shake your head and think that this couldn’t happen to your child, please think again. Show them these videos and remind them every day to be careful of strangers. They must never get into the car or open the door to anyone that they have only met online. Even if they’ve been communicating online for so long that they feel like they know them – everyone online is a stranger – always!
