Sunday, April 02, 2006

Good job!

UK -- A woman fought off a knife-wielding attacker using only a personal alarm and skills learnt on a self-defence course.

The 48-year-old Italian was confronted by a man with a knife in the backstreets of London.

She kept her head, and, whipping out the personal alarm given to her as part of the course, the deafening noise scared of her assailant, who left empty handed.

She said she had realised he was following her: "We had been taught to notice our surroundings on the course and I realised it was important to take control of the situation.

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