Trunk Monkey
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On Saturday morning (Feb 23) a guy who is on parole for a burglary committed in 2013 shot and killed somebody in the parking lot of an apartment complex in South Colorado Springs.
About an hour later the same guy showed up walking down a street (South Wasatch if you happen to be familiar with Colorado Springs) randomly shooting at passers-by just like the scene from the movie Tombstone. He shot a driver in the head and killed him and then stole a car (The news report isn't clear on whether or not he stole the car from the person he shot or somebody else).
Then he drove to the other side of town (Murray and Airport) where he murdered somebody else and stole their car.
This evening the local news is reporting that he's posting on Facebook that he will not be taken alive.
I hope I'm wrong but I don't think he's done I think he's going to have a run-in with somebody else before the police get him.
So here is a person who's already killed three people. Who has demonstrated that he will shoot people randomly without warning or provocation.
Needless to say the entire city is on edge.
What do you do if you run into somebody like that?
Let's assume in my hypothetical he shows up outside the fence where I work. Since it's my hypothetical I have correctly identified to him and it is the right guy.
Now if I had even a suspicion that the random person outside my gate was him my first reaction would be to try to get as far away from him as I could and call the police.
I certainly would never try to apprehend him and I'm not sure exactly how to say this but I would do everything I could not to give him any reason to suspect that I knew who he was.
Having said all that and remembering that this is my hypothetical and I have correctly identified him, if I ran into this guy and he made the slightest threatening move I think I'd probably draw and get ready to defend myself.
How else would you deal with somebody like that?
I want to be clear I'm not trying to make this a "What would you do?" discussion. I'm trying to ask how would you handle this real situation that really could happen. I mean like I just said I don't think the guy's done he's going to run into somebody before the police catch him. What can that person do to protect themselves?
About an hour later the same guy showed up walking down a street (South Wasatch if you happen to be familiar with Colorado Springs) randomly shooting at passers-by just like the scene from the movie Tombstone. He shot a driver in the head and killed him and then stole a car (The news report isn't clear on whether or not he stole the car from the person he shot or somebody else).
Then he drove to the other side of town (Murray and Airport) where he murdered somebody else and stole their car.
This evening the local news is reporting that he's posting on Facebook that he will not be taken alive.
I hope I'm wrong but I don't think he's done I think he's going to have a run-in with somebody else before the police get him.
So here is a person who's already killed three people. Who has demonstrated that he will shoot people randomly without warning or provocation.
Needless to say the entire city is on edge.
What do you do if you run into somebody like that?
Let's assume in my hypothetical he shows up outside the fence where I work. Since it's my hypothetical I have correctly identified to him and it is the right guy.
Now if I had even a suspicion that the random person outside my gate was him my first reaction would be to try to get as far away from him as I could and call the police.
I certainly would never try to apprehend him and I'm not sure exactly how to say this but I would do everything I could not to give him any reason to suspect that I knew who he was.
Having said all that and remembering that this is my hypothetical and I have correctly identified him, if I ran into this guy and he made the slightest threatening move I think I'd probably draw and get ready to defend myself.
How else would you deal with somebody like that?
I want to be clear I'm not trying to make this a "What would you do?" discussion. I'm trying to ask how would you handle this real situation that really could happen. I mean like I just said I don't think the guy's done he's going to run into somebody before the police catch him. What can that person do to protect themselves?
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