silicosys4
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Some lessons to be learned here.
It is not a staged video. It is from a police call for persons who may know the person who committed the theft to come forward with information.This looks like a staged video. Kind of trollish.
Nope, he's not "asking for it" and he is "just a victim of crime".But forget about OC and consider if the guy was working on his car and a perp stabbed him or mugged him or committed another crime on him. Then he's just a victim of a crime. Just because he is OCing, is he suddenly asking for it?
This was posted on another forum I saw yesterday. Most of the posters were ripping the guy for OCing and they opined that was the reason he got "taken". My problem with Mr. Mechanic is two-fold:
1.) Bad "situational awareness". The man was oblivious to what was going on around him. Granted, the perp "pussy-footed" up on him, using the car to shield him from view, and this is where my second problem occurs.
2.) Bad "retention". From the slick way the perp got the gun out of the holster, I question if this holster had ANY form of retention on it.
I don't have a problem with the man OCing as we don't know anything about the neighborhood, where he lives, problems he might have had in the past, etc.
There are two things I can think of that a person could do to make themselves less likely to be targeted successfully for this type of crime.The man was working on the car door, how much awareness could he have in that spot, in his own driveway? ... What was he suppose to do, keep popping his head up looking for someone to approach him every few seconds?
The other thread was locked because it turned away from a constructive discussion of lessons learned.It has already been posted and locked here, as I suspect this thread will be.
Lol, I think that might be debatable. Have you seen some of the idiots with Cell Phones? These jerks will drive right into the back of a stopped school bus with all kinds of lights flashing. And for sure, anyone who actually drives and text messages should NOT ever be allowed to own a firearm. And these are not people concerned about awareness in any shape or form. Sorry to get off the subject.Anyone working on a car is much easier to be snuck up on compared to someone just standing around. I'd say it's easier to sneak up on a guy with his face under a hood than someone with their face in a cell phone.
Just my own experience.
Looks like someone dropped a dime on the young gentleman:
https://www.kwch.com/content/news/W...teen-steal-gun-off-Wichita-man-506769681.html
The other thread was locked because it turned away from a constructive discussion of lessons learned.
So, here's the takeaway that I got from it even in your front yard you had better be paying attention.
I was walking my dog one day and I saw EXACTLY this setup. One of my neighbors was leaning over to work on his motorcycle and had a Glock 42 sticking out of his ass crack. I think it may have been in one of those cheap Uncle Mike's holsters. I was standing three feet behind him for five minutes and he never knew I was there.
14 years old. Geez.
From the looks of the video this isn’t the first time he has held a gun on someone.
14 years old. Geez.
From the looks of the video this isn’t the first time he has held a gun on someone.
From the looks of the video this isn’t the first time he has held a gun on someone.
This is what I said in the other thread
After seeing the video
One thing that I picked up on after watching the video is that the thief came from the opposite side of the car. There's no way he could have seen the gun from there. I assume that the thief came from the driver's side, saw the gun and had time to plan his approach before the owner even knew he was there.
That's an important consideration. The criminal decides when he's going to attack and unless you're really paying attention you won't know you've been selected until he he does