Anybody here ever had a gun or knife pulled on them?
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Well not me but a friend of mine was down in Mexico. Dude with a knife told him to give up his wallet. Friend had enough alcohol in his system he decided to kick the knife out of his hand. Wound up with a knee to ankle slice and no wallet.
Way back when I was an undergrad and in a building that's no longer a residence hall at MSU, a drunk friend who was about fifty feet away from me threw a steak knife at me.
He was drunk so the knife hit the wall.
He then ran at me and attempted a flying tackle.
I sidestepped and pushed him towards the garbage can.
We laughed.
He was drunk so the knife hit the wall.
He then ran at me and attempted a flying tackle.
I sidestepped and pushed him towards the garbage can.
We laughed.
I have not but I already know what I will do so I don't worry about. I kind of welcome it to come. They will get hurt really bad and will probably deserve it. You need to have all this kind of stuff worked out in your head and rehearse it in your head over and over then you will not have to think when it happens. You just do it. However I have had Marine Corps martial arts training. The principle is the same. Have a plan for everything. Then you just react not think.
Not me, but my brother-in-law had a gun pulled on him and his wife once. The grand jury decided not to charge him.
Back in the early 80's I was working part time on 3rd shift at a company in one of the better parts of Memphis off of Crump blvd. I had a guy come towards me on the lot. He pulled out a straight razor while he was still probably 8 or 10 yards away. Never said a word. I pulled up my shirt to grab my S&W and he ran before I got it on him. Never had anymore trouble at that place.
So you’re the old guy in the yard with a broom stick practicing your “ninja” skills against the trees? And i thought i was the only one *
Been caught in the crossfire twice. Once at One Block East in Greenville and other time at Daiquiri World. Both times I dove under a vehicle.
Just shut the 17 up. The marine corps taught you just enough to get your *** kicked.
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I would like to say no but unfortunately I have. 1986. Prairie Arts Festival. Never saw it coming. Dude with a double barreled wooden gun with both rubber bands doubled and stretched to max capacity. Luckily I talked him down and nobody got hurt. It taught me a valuable lesson about watching my 6.
I'm not sure why Glory's getting **** on here. This way of thinking was trained into him, and I don't see how that's a bad thing.
ETA: The "I welcome it" part is a bit much, though.
ETA: The "I welcome it" part is a bit much, though.
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Does a sawed-off shotgun to the head count?
I was robbed making a night deposit at the bank with the days Retail deposits. Not pleasant!
I was robbed making a night deposit at the bank with the days Retail deposits. Not pleasant!
Almost 20 years ago, my first job out of school, normal Friday afternoon at Rite Aid, right across from Horn Lake PD. Woman at the counter appears with a handgun, asks for Xanax and Vicodin. Caught me completely off guard. I walked slowly to the back shelf where both were stored, trying to think fast. I saw a bottle of 500 count cimetidine and considered giving it to her and telling her it was generic Vicodin. I chickened out, grabbed one bottle of each per her request, set it on the counter and wondered if she might shoot me just for the hell of it. She grabbed them and walked off, as I continued my internal panic attack. She’s lucky that at that point I had not yet seen Roadhouse about 20 times. Otherwise I would totally have done some awesome karate moves and been a big hero. Unfortunately in real life I turned out to be more like the diner manager in Pulp Fiction.
The percent of people that could get a carry gun out, whether concealed or not, and shoot it before being stabbed multiple times is pretty damn low. The percentage of people that could actually disarm somebody wielding a knife is similarly low, and practically non-existent if the knife wielder is strong and reasonably competent. Now somebody robbing you with a wife probably is likely to be a drug addict and/or mentally ill, but still not good odds. If somebody pulls a knife on you, you pretty much get to run, do what they say, or get cut up pretty good.
I am 6'2" 230 pounds and can bench press 405. There are not too many people out there who would try me plus I have been trained to defend my self. I will not run. There are a few people on here who know who I am. They know I am not talking ****.
A random old guy forced me and my friends off the road when I was in high school. Approached the vehicle and pulled a revolver. He was looking for some kids who smashed his mailbox...not us that time, but it scared the crap out of us. Eerily similar from the scene in "Dazed and Confused".
Face down on pavement with a marine sentry locked and loaded at Keflavik Air Base, Iceland. I did exactly what the sentries said and was released unharmed after 10 minutes of checking my credentials. It was not a good feeling.
In the early days of my banking career, we had to work late at the branch one night. A windowless cargo van backs up to the front of the building about six inches from the door. My coworker goes to investigate and comes back running and shouting "They have a shotgun, everybody to the vault!" They also had keys to the building...it was the cleaning crew and the shotgun he saw was the mop handle.
That's going to be super useful if the attacker climbs on top of your chest, but I still wouldn't stay and fight somebody with a knife because I'm too insecure to run.
FIFY.
I too had an incident there when my little cousin pissed through his cloth diaper on the OG bad Santa.
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i guess it is all in the situation, but a person with a gun 8 feet away, you basically do what they say. Even a person that practices drawing and shooting would be a disadvantage with someone already drawn. Best just to give them your wallet.
You are the kind of man that ends up dead first. You do know that right? Few men will fight you and even fewer fairly but many will kill your ***. You are made of flesh and blood, deal with it.
I've never been in that situation, i hope I'd be cool and calm, but have no idea.
Another thing to consider is the environmental and physical conditions you may be dealing with; darkness, flashing/alarms, poor line of sight, elevated heart rate, grogginess, inebriation, physical pain (if you've been hit), etc.
Another thing to consider is the environmental and physical conditions you may be dealing with; darkness, flashing/alarms, poor line of sight, elevated heart rate, grogginess, inebriation, physical pain (if you've been hit), etc.
Not directly towards me, but showed it to me and asked if I minded him walking around his yard with it on his side.
I reached back inside my truck and grabbed mine, showed it to him and stuck it in waistband. I said Nope, what can I help you with?
I reached back inside my truck and grabbed mine, showed it to him and stuck it in waistband. I said Nope, what can I help you with?
Truth. In basic before we started hand-to-hand training they told us "Do not try this at home. You will get your *** kicked." There are some in the military who have had some legit, extensive hand-to-hand combat training, but the majority of the training is just introductory stuff and abbreviated. A lot of people who went through basic training like to exaggerate the toughness of it and are too proud to admit it.
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My wife and I had just moved to MS and were temporarily living in an apartment until we found a house and I was driving a company vehicle with Florida plates. I went downstairs to the parking lot one night to get some work folders out of the back of the vehicle w/ FL plates. Something told me to look around while digging in the trunk (don't know if I heard something, felt a presence or what) but I turned around to see a guy w/ a 9mm pointed at my head telling me to freeze and get my hands up. He asked me who I was, if the vehicle was mine, where I lived, did I have any I.D. I finally said after figuring out this wasn't your everyday robbery "can you tell me what this is about?" He pulled a badge on a chain out from under his shirt, said he was a US Marshal. He ran the plates on my vehicle and got the company info in return but still wasn't convinced. He called in another Marshal that was at the apt complex too and let me call my wife in the apartment to throw my wallet down to him to check my i.d. He saw who I was and wasn't who he was looking for who turned out to be my downstairs neighbor that was a drug dealer from you guessed it, Florida. He was asking me if I knew the guy (only in passing in the parking lot) , what the guy drove, etc etc and low and behold here comes the guy driving up while we are standing there talking about him. I said ummm, lets act casual because that's him in the Cadillac. He tells me to get the hell out of there (no problem officer) and he gets on the little radio he had under his shirt and tells everybody else that this is their man driving up. Neighbor and his girlfriend (who has 2 kids ~10 yr old boy and 14 yr old daughter) get out of the Caddy and Marshals are coming out of the woodwork swarming them. They are all hollering get down, get on the ground now which the guy does but his girlfriend freaks and just freezes and stands there wailing. They grab her and throw her around like a rag doll and she's screaming about her kids seeing all of this. They hauled the guy away and I later found out they had already busted the door to their apt down and the kids were in a van out in the parking lot. This was a nice apt complex in Flowood not some dump in a ghetto, just goes to show you if you are in a multi-tenant building you never know what rif raf is around you.
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