People are shooting each other and bombs are falling everywhere all the time. It’s a total war going on.. Ya know what…I am going to go there and going to walk out in the middle of it and start asking people questions. What can happen, I have my badge on.
Right. I was on a 6 day video shoot in Russia about 5 years ago. One of the cameramen was a war correspondent, when to very dangerous places. Told story about being in Africa and trying to run out of gunfire with 2 other reporters. He said (paraphrased), “We were running. The guy on my right went down, and we kept running. Then the guy on my left went down and I kept running and got away. People were sent back after the fighting, one guy survived and the other didn’t.”
It happens in war, there is confusion and the people with guns aren’t waiting to find out, they shoot first.