i put on my best church dress and haul butt back to the house! LOL
Scenario: attacked in your driveway
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I'm 6'1" and as of this morning hit the scale in my Underroos at 159 lbs.
I'll assume for the sake of the exercise that I'm not wearing a conventional defensive weapon such as a firearm or knife.
A man in this guys range of height & weight is most likely to be very much out of shape, akin to a 7/8ths scale 'Tony Soprano'. But with adreanlin and crazyman rage going on he cannot be under estimated. I'll bet that my own Spidey Sense would have gone off at the time I noticed him via the first gate. His comments to me at the second gate though, that would have sent me into a read state of awareness. Reason being reasonable and wholly in control of their mental faculties persons do not give lip to those that they are tresspassing against...and they don't get rattled by the homeowner saying nothign to them otherwise as they attempt to open their own front gate to exit, and possibly offer help. I would never have responded to the BGs second comment in the way that the imaginary guy did but I'll roll with it for the purpose of the exercise.
So there I am and I'm at the front of my catruck (either or) which is lets say three steps backward and I'll imagine that my vehilce is off with the keys in the ignition, even as I know from past experience I'd have left the engine running with all windows rolled up as a 'just in case' measure.
As such to again play along I would not attempt to reenter my car.
I would run...and I'd do so hooking around the rear of my vehicle using it as soft cover to seperate him from me. I cannot assume he is unarmed even as his hands are empty. It's not hard for folk to stow a firearm or knife in their sweatpants. Beside that his own hands and bulk are a weapon in themselves. I'd figure that his own mass would work against him, and it would, as I'm very quick on my feet especially in a short burst run and unlike Tony Soprano I'm not out of shape. I'd race around the rear and long side down my car to the front of right fender of his car. Reason being that he'd have to change direction three times to follow me which would subtlely but in a real way sap energy from him slowing him down. I'd gain distance from him. He'd follow.
I'd then run lengthwise along his car to the rear and with him still coming make a figure eight involving another three direction changes heading back to my starting point at the left front door of my car.
With the BG now further behind than he was to start at possibly 40+ ft. I'd reenter my catruck and firstly lock the doors. Next I'd start the vehicle.
Witht he engine up nd running I now have a weapon to resolve the disparity in force issue I'd had on my hands prior with the man being crazy and thus unreasonable as well as outweighing me by 100 lbs. I personally would have no problem at all with hitting another person with my vehicle. It's not something that would at all be difficult for me to resolve to myself. I'd drive at him and would hit impact him, hard! If he didn't bounce off and stay down looking obviously injured then I'd try again and the next time I'd maybe drive over his legs with a wheel. At all costs I'd try to keep him down, away from my home, and from gaining further ground or from getting into his own vehicle which would become a battering ram against me and/or through my retaining fences.
In normal everyday life I generally give obviously crazy/mentally distrubed/off their meds persons a wide bearth. If they ramp things up to Seabass level and as this guy did start talking crazy 'ish where they imagine me to be the Devil or whatever then well they must be treated as an extremely dangerous person as they cannot be assumed to be or act with any level of reasonableness.
At all costs I'd avoid going hand to hand with him due to both his being heavier than me (though not at all necessarilly stronger...bodyweight and strength are not functions of each other when it comes to adults) and again his mental position is without reasons and thus he cannot be assumed to have the ability to restrain or stop himself.
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Fuzz what was the actual outcome of this scenario IRL?
- Janq
I'll assume for the sake of the exercise that I'm not wearing a conventional defensive weapon such as a firearm or knife.
A man in this guys range of height & weight is most likely to be very much out of shape, akin to a 7/8ths scale 'Tony Soprano'. But with adreanlin and crazyman rage going on he cannot be under estimated. I'll bet that my own Spidey Sense would have gone off at the time I noticed him via the first gate. His comments to me at the second gate though, that would have sent me into a read state of awareness. Reason being reasonable and wholly in control of their mental faculties persons do not give lip to those that they are tresspassing against...and they don't get rattled by the homeowner saying nothign to them otherwise as they attempt to open their own front gate to exit, and possibly offer help. I would never have responded to the BGs second comment in the way that the imaginary guy did but I'll roll with it for the purpose of the exercise.
So there I am and I'm at the front of my catruck (either or) which is lets say three steps backward and I'll imagine that my vehilce is off with the keys in the ignition, even as I know from past experience I'd have left the engine running with all windows rolled up as a 'just in case' measure.
As such to again play along I would not attempt to reenter my car.
I would run...and I'd do so hooking around the rear of my vehicle using it as soft cover to seperate him from me. I cannot assume he is unarmed even as his hands are empty. It's not hard for folk to stow a firearm or knife in their sweatpants. Beside that his own hands and bulk are a weapon in themselves. I'd figure that his own mass would work against him, and it would, as I'm very quick on my feet especially in a short burst run and unlike Tony Soprano I'm not out of shape. I'd race around the rear and long side down my car to the front of right fender of his car. Reason being that he'd have to change direction three times to follow me which would subtlely but in a real way sap energy from him slowing him down. I'd gain distance from him. He'd follow.
I'd then run lengthwise along his car to the rear and with him still coming make a figure eight involving another three direction changes heading back to my starting point at the left front door of my car.
With the BG now further behind than he was to start at possibly 40+ ft. I'd reenter my catruck and firstly lock the doors. Next I'd start the vehicle.
Witht he engine up nd running I now have a weapon to resolve the disparity in force issue I'd had on my hands prior with the man being crazy and thus unreasonable as well as outweighing me by 100 lbs. I personally would have no problem at all with hitting another person with my vehicle. It's not something that would at all be difficult for me to resolve to myself. I'd drive at him and would hit impact him, hard! If he didn't bounce off and stay down looking obviously injured then I'd try again and the next time I'd maybe drive over his legs with a wheel. At all costs I'd try to keep him down, away from my home, and from gaining further ground or from getting into his own vehicle which would become a battering ram against me and/or through my retaining fences.
In normal everyday life I generally give obviously crazy/mentally distrubed/off their meds persons a wide bearth. If they ramp things up to Seabass level and as this guy did start talking crazy 'ish where they imagine me to be the Devil or whatever then well they must be treated as an extremely dangerous person as they cannot be assumed to be or act with any level of reasonableness.
At all costs I'd avoid going hand to hand with him due to both his being heavier than me (though not at all necessarilly stronger...bodyweight and strength are not functions of each other when it comes to adults) and again his mental position is without reasons and thus he cannot be assumed to have the ability to restrain or stop himself.
Fuzz what was the actual outcome of this scenario IRL?
- Janq
Yeah, I figured. I was just looking for an excuse to use that tobacco image.Petrus said:
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