Posted on 01/06/2022 12:44:01 PM PST by Scarlett156
LOL!
Would deadly force have been legal against him?
I don’t doubt what you’re saying - however, in a situation in a public place where someone is acting strangely, I will always look directly at him/her. Sometimes I’ll smile and say “Hi,” trying to keep things casual even if I’m worried about being attacked. This may not be what experts advise but it seems to have helped me. If someone seems to be following me down a sidewalk, I will stop and turn, and at least shoot a glance at that person. Again, it seems to have helped - conspicuously ignoring someone might be taken to be a sign of fear. This is just my experience.
Now, staring at someone in traffic, or even looking at someone, is often taken as provocation. (Don’t ask me how I know that!) Also I don’t return stares if someone is just staring at me - the above is only if the other person is in motion and s/he seems to be acting abnormally.
When I hear footsteps coming up behind me, I turn around and face them. Same when I sense someone behind me. I am aware of my situation all the time.
Whoa! That’s a situation that calls for crotch kicking and throat punching. She was putting up a good fight.
Stay alive racism to me.
Too bad she wasn’t armed and aware. Dead criminals are a better out6come.
Your post reminds me of the 1996 ATF ruling that a shoelace can be a machine gun.
Since rescinded, the AFT has the ability to reimpose its arbitrary power at any time.
I would be surprised if they don’t.
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/ctdm3/oldie_but_goody_a_shoelace_can_be_a_machine_gun/
There is no “allegedly” about it.
The other guy should have broken his neck.
I don’t think I’d blame the phone. If I were waiting for the bus there, I’d probably be reading a book. As to situational awareness, it would depend on the area. There are a lot of areas in my town where I wouldn’t be on high alert in the middle of the day in a public place with a bus expected to arrive momentarily.
It was a woman who was attacked. Maybe she should have broken his neck.
Last week at the hospital I work in I was bringing clean linen into the Psychiatric Observation Unit(”The Happy Hatch’’).
It’s a unit where people with mental health issues are put under observation and treated.
There was a young nurses aide sitting in a chair doing a ‘’patient watch’’, I see the young woman pretty much every day and exchange greetings and as I was putting the linen away a stocky built young man who was a patient just walked up and punched this poor young woman right in the face and she fell to the floor.
This guy, he appeared to be Hispanic , continued to beat this young woman. The room itself is a rather large rectangular room and the security guard was at the far end of it.
I got my left arm around this guys neck, grabbed his right arm(the one he was punching her with) and pulled him off her , and remembering my best high school Spanish yelled ‘’Alto!’’(stop). At that point more security showed up and took the guy away.
The suddenness and violence of it was a shock.
I always keep my head on a swivel , always make sure of what’s going on around me.
When you make eye contact and keep your head up, it tells them you are aware of your surroundings and do not make an easily surprised target.
They will move on to someone who seems more vulnerable.
But I agree that with the road rage thing, the best thing to do is ignore them. I have a dashcam for a reason.
WhenI am waiting somewhere, I tend to find areas where my back is to a wall or near a corner and I can survey the surround ping area easily. I do not fully concentrate on what I’m doing but am always listening and look up and around regularly.
How was she?
And thanks for stepping up and doing the right thing.
Thanks ‘’metmom’’, I guess I was in the right place at the right time.
I haven’t seen “Iris’’ since the incident. She was pretty shaken up, she had a large welt under her left eye and a rather nasty cut just above her left eye brow.
I’ll ask the nursing supervisor tomorrow how she is. Poor girl. She’s a sweet young woman, always very pleasant.
Short of being able to carry a pistol I would highly recommend any woman, certainly any young woman to learn some self defense tactics and buy a pair of steel toed sneakers.
I wear them all the time and with winter here I have a pair of steel toed work boots.
Yeah road rage is a totally different deal. Sometimes all it takes is making eye contact with someone else in traffic and your day just got a lot more complicated.
Looking around if you’re walking in a crowded public area is a sign of vulnerability, i.e., you look uncertain and maybe lost. However, especially when hiking in the outdoors, I always smile and say hello to people met on the trail. (Friends I’ve hiked with consider this to be extremely obnoxious! “Who do you think you are, the Queen or something?” and of course my answer to this is “Well....yes.”)
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