Chop tail.

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Chop tail.
“If you don’t have paranoia, that doesn’t mean that they don’t follow you.”


Why is this necessary in ordinary life?

If you do not go into crime or into the games of special services, it is unlikely that you will have to leave professional surveillance. But besides this, there are a huge number of cases when they can follow you. It can be:
- robbers
- maniacs - in the forest, park
- car thieves - in the parking lots in front of the shops, one breaks the car, the second looks after you
- scammers, scammers, gypsies
- drug addicts - often wait for people returning to the suburbs by minibus, and lead to the entrance, where they attack
- homeless people
- traffickers
- jealous husbands
- etc.

Therefore, the skill of identifying and "chopping off" the "tail" along with melee and shooting is necessary for elementary survival in the stone jungle.


Surveillance Objectives:
1. establish identity, place of residence, contacts, determine the level of income
2. intimidate by the fact of surveillance
3. bring to a deserted place, and there to rob / kill / kidnap / rape
4. identify activities, belonging to certain circles.


The identity of the filler.

In the case of professional surveillance, this is usually a person aged 25-45, a man or woman (!), Decently dressed.

His psychological state can be provoked.

During surveillance, he can take off / put on a jacket, jacket, hat and hide it all in a bag, or hold it in his hands.

Sneakers / boots and pants rarely change.

For communication uses a mobile phone or walkie-talkie.

The tracking distance is usually from 3-5 m in busy streets to 50-100 in the desert.

Remember: the filler is always in a subordinate position (because he is following you), and especially when you know about surveillance, but he does not know what is detected. Therefore, you can get away from any, even very professional surveillance.


Methods for identifying observations.

The best option here, as well as when getting rid of the tail, is to make sure that the “tappers” do not understand that they have been spotted or specially torn away from them. It must be remembered that if you came to the attention of special services / bros by accident (well, for example, as the contact of someone who was already under the hood), and then too clearly “chopped off the tail”, then this alone will cause you increased interest. Therefore, it is always useful to detect the tail, but getting rid of it is not always, but depending on the situation. (see Goals of surveillance).

General:
- Mindfulness, especially during important meetings, in an unfamiliar / threatening environment.
- Develop memory!
- Have several driving routes even to / from work, change them randomly
- Change the speed of movement, combine this with observation.
- Think over the route.
- Have special pre-selected places where you can check in and leave (shops with 2 or more exits, passage yards, etc.)
- People in 96% of cases determine the look directed to the back of the head. TRUST YOUR INTUITION! (without translating it into paranoia, of course).


Filers can be identified by:
1. Repeatability of the same individuals.
2. Inadequate behavior among other passers-by. When a trampler loses sight of you, he:
A) starts to fuss, look for you,
B) falls into confusion,
C) calls an accomplice.
Ordinary passers-by basically do not react at all to your movements.

On the street:

DO NOT LOOK BACK! Do not stop “tying shoelaces” - this is commonplace! It’s better to find a way in which turning back will look logical.

- Stop at a stall, a kiosk, a showcase half a turn and at that moment look back with a side vision + fix passers-by by reflection in the glass.
- Pedestrian crossing - stop at the edge of the carriageway and see how the Rules are taught, left to right.
- Shop - go inside and look through the window on the road.
- Telephone box - go inside, pick up the phone and look back.
- An underpass is better with 4 exits (2 on each side), then you can check 4 times. After passing one exit, go down the “oncoming”. At the same time, you turn around 180 degrees and get the opportunity to look where you just went from. Cross the street through the tunnel, go up, turn around, go down again, cross the street again, and go up through the fourth exit. This is called the "eight."
- Passage yards, porches with two exits. Run into such a courtyard, hide in any entrance, and watch through the glass on the landing. Toptun will jump out into the yard and bewildered - where did you go? Perhaps he will call someone. You can sit out in the porch and go in the opposite direction. Better if the entrance has two exits, then you can go to another street.

Ground transportation; Metro.

- If there is no threat to life, then the one with few people is better. When the bus approaches, stand at a stop close to the edge of the sidewalk, but do not get into it. Usually the bus stop is empty, and those who need other buses are far from the edge. You remain and the trampler. To confirm, do this several times.
- Enter the bus, trolleybus, tram through the back door - you can observe who is driving from behind; and look around the entire cabin, standing in the corner at the rear window. The filler will try to get closer to you to see at which stop you will get out.
- In the subway at poorly populated stations there may be “pockets”, and there are free benches. Sit down, rest, look around. If at an empty station you notice a person who, like you, missed several trains ...
- Leaving the subway, hold the door and look back. The toptun going right behind (so as not to lose you right after leaving the metro) can also make a phone call informing his accomplices.


Detachment methods.

1. Invisible - when the observer loses sight of you for a while, and you have 2 or more (the more, the better) exits - that is, there is an opportunity to get lost in the crowd and quietly leave the place.
- turn around the corner, accelerate sharply and hide in the front door.
- leaving the underpass or subway - the same.
- in entrance yards, entrances with two exits - the same.
- in the subway / bus, substitute the leg in front of the almost closed doors, unclench them and jump out.
- In any building with 2 or more exits or a toilet on the ground floor (a school, hospital, clinic, shopping centers, institutes are suitable, although sometimes this is difficult due to security). Go inside, hide. They will either search for you inside, or wait at the exit. Wait, then exit through the second exit or climb out the toilet window.
- In clothing markets, in large stores.
- In museums, at exhibitions - you can get lost in the crowd and call / meet the right person. But they usually have one way out, before which they can wait for you. You can use the window in the toilet.
- In temples where there are many columns or several rooms - the same. In an Orthodox church, there is usually a second exit next to the altar through the priesthood.
- Pass through the entrance with two exits and a combination lock (the code must be found in advance).
- In some houses, different entrances may be connected by transitions on floors. This is usually either long corridors that can connect even 3-4 entrances, or transitions on the top floor of old houses from the main staircase to the black one. Such places must be explored in advance, and used for verification or for separation. In such a corridor you can meet the pursuer.


2. Power.

Suitable for:
A) the presence of a real threat to your life
B) the desire to “punish” the stompers
C) the availability of a sufficient level of training and determination. Weapons are welcome.
D) THE ESTABLISHED FOLLOW-UP FACT - do not rush to passers-by who simply live with you in neighboring houses and therefore follow you from the metro.
D) in desert places. The filler should be brought to a place that is convenient for you (for example, where your friends hang out, or where you know the area well, or just where it is dark and quiet ...)
- The simplest - having noticed the surveillance, you turn around and attack yourself.
- Hiding in the entrance / around the corner / in the entrance yard and wait. We meet the filler with his hand / foot / club / bullet. Toptun can be searched, although rarely does he have any information with him. Then we roll back!


3. Exotic.

The most technically sophisticated but effective. They require excellent LOCAL KNOWLEDGE and preliminary training. Ideally, the route should be laid in advance and completed several times.

- Care on the roofs, basements, attics; sewer collectors. (Now it may be difficult in connection with the general “fight against terrorism”).
- Change in appearance - shave / stick mustache, beard, hair. Change clothes. Wear glasses. To radically change the image - there was a “new Russian”, a haggard hunched pensioner with a wand and a string bag began to be. There was a benchmark - became a skinhead, etc. Feasible if there is sufficient time and space, for example, in the toilet or on the top platform of the stairs.
- Crossing the river; in winter, skipping over ice floes.
- In the forest / park. There you can either leave from any direction, or organize an ambush yourself.
- At a construction site (the same, just do not run into a watchman).
- Using a bicycle, moped or motorcycle. Their speed is much higher than that of a pedestrian, and they will pass where the car does not pass (along paths, through the railway, along pedestrian bridges, parks). You can take a bicycle with you on the train.
- On the platform of the trains - get to the edge of the platform, as if you want to take the train. Before the train, jump off the platform and run off the train.


MOST IMPORTANT - ACTION IS ABSOLUTELY UNPREDICTABLE!

A professional has in his head a set of schemes according to which he acts. And the nonprofessional invents, improvises. The better the imagination, the more chances to stay alive. But all your actions, of course, must be checked by logic. Sometimes it’s useful to put yourself in the shoes of a stomp.


Special means.

Sometimes for professional observation a radio beacon may hang on you (the option is a satellite beacon). The radio beacon is a fairly simple device, you can make it yourself. It emits a radio signal at a certain frequency, and a simple scanner shows the direction towards you, i.e. direction where the signal is larger. Industrial designs are very compact, and industrial scanners most often show the distance to you. Satellite beacons send a signal to a satellite, which then shows 20 meters. But such devices very clearly show your position on the map. Very accurate - roads, and their use against the common man is unlikely.

To detect a radio beacon, there are scanner devices, the simplest of which you can also do yourself.


Keep in mind:
1. A radio beacon can be hung up on you unnoticed, for example, "accidentally" colliding with you on the street or in the subway.
2. It is enough to simply attach a radio beacon to the car (most often it is used precisely for tracking cars).
3. The radio beacon hangs on clothes (behind the collar, behind the belt, under the hollow) or is in the bag.
4. The transmission distance is small (50 - 100 - 200 meters)
5. Large concrete objects (subway tunnels, cellars, underground parking lots, buildings with thick walls) usually shield radio emission.
6. The reception of lighthouse radiation is difficult near the television and radio towers, mobile communications masts.

If for someone I wrote banal truths - well then, we laugh at them together. But maybe for someone it will save a life.
Source: Avoiding Tracking