Keeping the fear alive.

Last night on the radio I heard a list of tips on how to stay safe while traveling. This tips included things like:

• Carry a second wallet with expired credit cards and a small amount of cash in case you're mugged.
• Only stay in the second through seventh floor of a hotel. Apparently the ground level has the highest rate of break-ins and anything above the seventh floor a fire truck's ladder won't reach.
• Pick a seat near the back of the plane on an exit row - that way you'll be the first one out in case of an emergency (screw that "help those that need help thing"), plus you'll be furthest from anyone trying to hijack the plane.

Seems to me they missed a key tip to staying safe;

Don't leave your house. Lock the front door. Lock and barricade your bedroom door. Crawl in to the back corner of your closet with some sort of weapon and cower until the "vacation" is over.

God bless fear mongering...