I'm pinging the CW2 list to alert you to a new ambush tactic, very sophisticated in fact. Two crook cars on an isolated road find a lone prey vehicle, and box it in front and rear. They clearly ID'd the elderly woman, alone, as an easy victim.
In the FaceBook/Twitter era, effective tactics like this will proliferate rapidly. IOW, rolling ambushes will happen oftener and oftener. Study this case, and plan accordingly. In the breakdown of society post or during collapse, more and more criminals will try more and more tricks. Put this on your radar.
“Police say she rolled her window down to ask if the person needed help.”
...While reaching under the seat with her right hand and easing her 9mm up onto her thigh.
Oh, different story (with a happier ending)
Jesus, this is spooky and gave me chills, v. 2.0.
Years ago, when cell phones were just coming and were the size of walkie-talkies, I bought one for the wife. My boy and his wife had just moved to Monroeville, AL. We were in Navarre Beach, FL and the roads in between were really desolate - especially the one out of Brewton, AL. (Looked just like that picture.)
Wife went on up to visit the kids. Just outside of Brewton a big Cadillac with one of obama’s sons passed, pulled in front and started pacing her. Another car with obama’s son II came up from behind and paced as well. The cell was so new she didn’t know how to use it but made a big display of talking on the phone.
The Caddy in front suddenly took off like a shot, leaving son II probably wondering WTF. He quickly pulled over and stopped. Wife continued but never did see the other guy. We reported it to the town police in Brewton and the Alabama State Police but never heard anything more.
To this day, both of us believe she would have been robbed, raped, and maybe murdered as it was boondocks up there and you’d never be found. I wouldn’t let her go that way alone again and she never argued. There hasn’t been a time when I thought of that incident that I didn’t break out in a cold sweat and bless the day I married a quick-thinker.
Ping for a Warning!
Atlantic City environs.
Thanks Travis.
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
(At least, in public in today’s world it’s risky to render aid alone on a deserted road at night, etc.)
In the 1980s, in Los Angeles in the wee hours, I was nearly the victim of a two vehicle ploy. Two vans came down an on-ramp together. One came over to the fast lane and took up a position in front of me, while the other kept the same pace, but two lanes over. Suddenly, the van in front of me hit the brakes and stopped. My gut instinct was that if these people wanted me to stop I had better do the opposite. I gunned the engine and drove between the two vans and got away.
I think they wanted me to rear-end the van in front of me so they would be able to sue me and/or collect insurance money, and the second vehicle was there to be a witness.
I guess the poor lady in this article was the victim of a more violent variant of the two-vehicle ambush.
From John Derbyshire’s “The Talk”:
“(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.”
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Idiot gov't employees...
My dad served in Vietnam and told me that the Viet Cong used similar tactics, but by the time he'd arrived in-country (1970-71) the Americans were used to this and he was quickly taught to keep driving no matter what. He did a lot of supply runs for his artillery unit, so he knows how far a deuce-and-a-half will run with a flat tire and how far you can tow a howitzer when one of the tow bars comes loose.