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| quote: | Originally posted by lex400sc
here's how i would deal with the situation in the future... muggers are opportunists. if you give them the opportunity to approach you safely and predictably, they will strike because they are comfortably in control of the situation. if you think about it from their perspective, even though they have the gun and are premeditating an attack on you, they are still nervous about carrying it out and getting away clean. in the back of their mind they don't know if you're armed, a cop or willing to fight back and that uncertainty right before they contact you is the only advantage you have. so if you're heading back to your car after the club and you see some shady character in your path, do something uncommon, unpredictable, even irrational. like run to your car with a cell phone to your ear talking to someone or pretending to as if you're busy, distracted, in a rush and didn't even notice him. say something audibly that suggests others are meeting up with you like 'yeah i'm almost there, who all is with you?'. you can even yell into your phone like you're pissed off and unwilling to take shit from anyone. people like this don't make very good targets. the mugger will analyze this type of person and many will probably not be comfortable enough to engage him or her. the whole mugging is based upon having the opportunity to get close enough to ask you for your money in a discreet manner where you the victim are short on options. they sound like they are professionals and not strung out methheads desperate enough to try and stop a running person on the phone by flashing a gun out in the open and yelling threats. if you see someone down the street approaching you, try crossing the street while you're at a distance still. if he follows, turn around and run back the other way before he can even begin to threaten you. flag a cab down and pay him a dollar to take you back to your car. don't let the potential mugger get the upperhand by allowing him to issue the threat. if you're being targetted and you slip out of the mugger's range before he's even revealed his intentions, i highly doubt he's gonna just start firing off a gun. these are just some techniques i use when walking down sketchy streets and allies in sf as i run into all kinds of seedy characters not in their right mind. most of them are harmless and just want money, cigarettes, food or weed from me, so i've been able to play with ways of approaching and passing them in ways where they don't even bother asking. |
awesome advice man
thanks for sharing
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