Beaches are horrible places to commit crime.
The sand stops you from fleeing fast, increasing the need to take hostages.
And then hostages are hard to hold on to because they are slippery from the suntan oil.
There are so many better places to commit crime.
This happened in a store, Victoria’s Secret judging by the mannikins.
Beach hostages....
I posted once that in 1998 my late wife and I were among the people on a beach in Sarasota, Florida held by a gunman.
He kept deputies at bay after he shot around some people and told them to stand down. They did. People later said they saw the bullets hitting the sand and making little clouds in the air and it scared them.
Younger guys and I made our plan quietly to grab him if he went left. When he wasn’t looking I had my wife slip under a car in the first parking lot row near us. She said “What good is it going to do me if you’re dead?” “I don’t intend to die”
He chose to lunge right.
Finally he grabbed an older man and grinned and slowly marched him away as his wife collapsed, screaming over and over. He drove away with the hostage.
Happy ending, surrounded by dozens of cops, he surrendered from holding a family in their house.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/10/17/standoff-ends-peacefully/
A Victoria Secret's store is likewise not the best venue at which to take hostages.
Regards,
I’m sure that bit of info will work its way into “Future Crime” training sessions in prisons and gangs from coast to coast.
“ There are so many better places to commit crime.”
There needs to be federal funds set up for seminars in this.
How to safely commit crimes in beach areas.