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How to scare bank robbers? Try smiling
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| April 12, 2007
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Posted on 04/15/2007 12:22:10 PM PDT by rebekah7gray
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my friend sweet talked a rapist out of committing a crime against her, so being friendly and polite does help.
The lesson we can learn from my friend is, never aggravate the enemy but try to remind the enemy of our humanity and better still if the enemy sees us praying out loud to God, like that convenience store lady did some time back and the robbers left her unharmed even though they wanted to shoot her for making so much noise when she was praying
To: rebekah7gray
How about shooting them between the eyes?
Bet that works better and more permanent.
To: rebekah7gray
Sounds like a good way to get pistol whipped.
To: rebekah7gray
It only works with Rapists and Robbers - don’t try something like that with Demorcraps.
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posted on
04/15/2007 12:32:52 PM PDT
by
The_Republican
(So Dark The Con of Man)
To: rebekah7gray
I doubt that it is ‘being nice’ as much as it is humanization and other disruptions to the scaffolding built by rehearsal (mental or otherwise).
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posted on
04/15/2007 12:46:20 PM PDT
by
M203M4
To: rebekah7gray
I dunno. This might send me running....
Then again, who is robbing who?
To: Names Ash Housewares
This is just a bit scary!
Mark
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:03:23 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
To: M203M4
I doubt that it is being nice as much as it is humanization and other disruptions to the scaffolding built by rehearsal (mental or otherwise). Yeah. That, and knowing that someone just made eye contact with you and probably sized you up well enough to give a good description or pick you out in a line-up.
To: rebekah7gray
Try a handshake and a smile. Excessive friendliness is the key to the Safecatch system created by FBI Special Agent Larry Carr. They should have used this friendly system in the North Hollywood bank robbery.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:08:58 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: dragnet2
Always be polite to someone dressed in full body armor.
To: battlegearboat
With a friendly smile, I’m sure they would have just removed their body armor, apologized and applied for positions as tellers.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:21:14 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: Joe Boucher
"How about shooting them between the eyes?
Bet that works better and more permanent." That's the approach taken around here.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:23:26 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Joe Boucher
“How about shooting them between the eyes?
Bet that works better and more permanent.”
I go with your plan, Joe, because the typical perp is a drug crazed POS.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:23:52 PM PDT
by
shove_it
To: MarkL
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:30:37 PM PDT
by
shove_it
To: rebekah7gray
let's clarify that: it only works if the 'enemy' has a conscience strong enough to give them serious misgivings about what they're doing without someone smiling at them... of course the question, then, is: how do you know that the above is true for an 'enemy' you've never seen before? What if they're unstable and smiling/being courteous provokes doubt in their mind, but instead of being enough doubt to change their mind about what they're doing it just aggravates them into further instability? What if they take it as a sign of weakness?
there are just too many what ifs with smiling and being nice to an 'enemy.' If doing so were a good method of self-defence, I suspect that it would have established as such a long time ago. The only time tested and proven way of deterring someone (or even an entire nation) from doing something is the capability to forcefully stop them from doing it and the willingness to do so, even should it be at great cost to both yourself and your especially to your enemy.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:36:09 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad)
To: rebekah7gray
Todd Beamer should have tried that.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:39:12 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter-Thompson '08)
To: rebekah7gray
The 1970’s had a rash of this nonsense.
Remember that? Don’t fight, it will just make it worse. TV programs proclaiming that was the answer to criminals. Got a lot of women raped, and a lot of pepole killed.
We are a lot wiser today.
Lead at supersonic speeds between the eyes is a service to the intended victim, and society in general.
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posted on
04/15/2007 1:42:01 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: rebekah7gray
I’m thankful that the passengers of Flight 93 did not heed this advice.
To: rebekah7gray
Did you everhear the tape of the poor social worker who was carnapped by some freak who wanted to have fun on his birthday.
She was very nice and it was terrible to hear her die.
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posted on
04/15/2007 2:20:09 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(.The Muzzies are hanging us with the rope we paid out to the leftists.)
To: BuffaloJack
what if the christians in the plane started praying out loud, like that convenience store lady did, invoking God’s protection ?
Paul on the road to Damascus was going to kill Christians till he met Christ on the road and became a christian.
Could the hijackers on flight 93, have become christians and changed their plans, having heard the prayers of the christians ? like the Romans who changed their minds about killing christians after having witnessed the love shown by christians ?
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