Street-wise

Here's a great example of being street-wise, using your awareness and being prepared.
It also clearly shows how a perpetrator often times will ask an intended victim questions before striking.
I must add I'm full of praise for this young woman!

Gilbert, Arizona -- As a 21-year-old female walked home around 12:40 a.m. on Thursday, she became suspicious when she saw a truck parked with its door open and no one visible inside, azcentral.com reports.

The woman said she removed her knife from her pocket "just in case." It was then that a 22-year-old suspect ran at the young woman and first asked her for a cigarette and then to
borrow her cellphone.

The woman said she didn't answer him either time and kept walking, but had flipped open the
knife's blade. The intended victim said she carries her Winchester pocketknife everywhere, "because you just never know."

The suspect then grabbed her purse and started pulling it and her with it, the woman said. "He was just tugging me and the purse, and I just started slashing at him," she said. She's not sure how many times she slashed the attacker, but said she wasn't going to stop until he quit.

"I must have got him good because he finally left," the woman said, adding that she knew she was fighting for her life and her unborn child. The young woman said she is three months pregnant.

She said the men "messed with the wrong girl" and credited growing up in Chicago for being tough.