Pass this along to every woman you have access too. Never let your guard down. This woman was smart and lucky. Another classic example can be found in The Kidney Snatchers , a chilling tale of dismemberment at the hands of a global cabal of organ thieves. There are dangerous people in the world, to be sure.
Wisdom dictates behaving cautiously around strangers at times.
These are givens. On the other hand, it's surely a rare and unlikely occurrence to be accosted at the mall by businessmen carrying briefcases loaded with murder weapons. Just because they take the form of cautionary tales with a moral message doesn't mean these stories have anything truly useful to teach us about the world. We can't conduct our lives as if every stranger is a potential axe-murderer because, among other reasons, it simply isn't true. No, if urban legends teach us anything at all, they teach us about ourselves and how we perceive the world.