‘When you go home at night, don’t turn your lights on immediately’: Woman shares PSA for women who live in apartments alone

A woman’s public service announcement for women who live alone when they are going home for the night has drawn over 3 million views on TikTok as of Saturday.

In the video, Mary Alice (@heyitsmaryalice) tells fellow women who live solo not to turn their lights on as soon as they get into their apartments for the evening.

“…If someone’s following you home, they’re gonna know what apartment you live in,” she explains. She then shares her own story where she decided to keep the lights off as soon as she entered her apartment.

Mary Alice says she was coming home to her apartment building and getting out of her car when a strange man that she didn’t know tried to engage with her about a headlight that was out on her vehicle.

Once she was inside her apartment, she didn’t turn the lights on. However, she says she watched the man wait in the street facing her apartment complex on her Ring camera for around five minutes.