Follow Your Instinct
My female co-worker, who was in her late 50s, lived alone on a farm. She went out one evening to collect the eggs from her chicken coop when a man emerged from some tall grass, soaking wet. He held her up with a pistol and demanded that she give him her truck and keys, plus a change of clothes.
She agreed and asked him to hold her basket while she unlocked the door. Really, she was just enacting a genius plan. The door was already unlocked and there was a baseball bat right behind the door. So she whipped it open, grabbed the bat, and disarmed the man like the boss she is.
Even better, his instinct not to drop the eggs in the basket saved her. He started to run and she called the local authorities to catch him.
Story credit: Reddit / Odd_Direction3571