1) Pop culture legal and safety education:
It's a bad idea to go about the house in the dark calling "hello" if you hear a suspicious noise
It's a bad idea to go about the house in the dark calling "hello" if you hear a suspicious noise
2) When your friend gets lost in an allegedly haunted house, it's better to call the police than to go rescue them. If you choose the latter, you will probably die.
3) The more secrets you have about nasty things you or someone you love did, the more likely you will be blackmailed, then screw up your assignment, then get totally screwed up.
4) The less you document things, keep social networks and insurance evidence, the more likely you are to fall into a setup. The lawyer will ask; "do you have proof of that? Who knows that besides you?" And that will be the person who set you up, which leads us to the next item.
5) Total, unconditional trust leads to catastrophe or to an association with aliens (the extra-terrestrial type), international criminal organizations or a psychopath. It's a good idea to distribute trust on a sliding scale that never reaches "total".
6) If you have been blackmailed, do not throw away the evidence and, if possible, collect some. If they nailed you for something awful, at least you can get back on them after you die (post-mortem correspondence)
7) It seems that if you plan to do something illegal or super secretive, you need a budget for dozens of burner phones that you will have to discard like a ketchup stained napkin. It looks sad. And expensive.
8) If you are being hunted by aliens (the extra-terrestrial type), recreated dinosaurs, vampires, criminals or any other variety of nasty types, never split up. They catch people when they are alone and may even eat them, which leaves the rest of you without evidence.
9) If you take erotic pictures for your present sweetheart, well... don't. But if you do, make sure your friends, family and work partners will just laugh when those pictures go viral.
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