Spider Sense Tingling Down Town While Being Followed

[rageofangels]

So I went to pick up my paycheck at work the other day and I wish I could say that it was completely uneventful. I have to park a good three blocks away from where I work and I walk through downtown Cincinnati to get to my place of business. While driving, a man made eye contact with me and I with him and as the light turned green, he started shouting at me. I waved and had to keep with traffic to continue. Keep in mind, this is downtown, people are crazy and the lights are slow to change so I get through the first intersection but not the second and the light is red. In my rear view mirror, I can see this guy jogging to catch up with me and still shouting hey. The light turns green and I park my car at the usual lot and walk to work the whole time semi-frightened and in a conscious and awares manner by glancing over my shoulder. In this manner, I realized several things. 1. I am highly undertrained. 2. Though I am sure I was fine, I still have a great deal of fear to over come. 3. I probably need to find a job somewhere else that is just as flexible and pays just as well.

Every day I get harrassed for money or smokes and I carry neither. It makes me incredibly depressed to see society like this just as it makes me incredibly infuriated. Even more so than this icon:

I want to snap back but I can't afford to escalate the situation because of the responsibility of taking roscoe with me. Any suggestions other than ones I haven't mentioned myself?

 

[pangris]

Get good training. Solves a number of issues...

www.shootrite.org
www.thunderranchinc.com
www.riflesonly.com (they teach handgun as well)
www.rangemaster.com

Paul

 

[Trip20]

I want to snap back but I can't afford to escalate the situation because of the responsibility of taking roscoe with me.

I don't have much to offer other than to pat you on the back for that comment. Sometimes, when you read the the tactics forum, it seems as though some people can't wait to use their "roscoe". This is refreshing.

 

[gunsmith]

that was me

I was just trying to tell you to that there was a fire in your rear wheel well.

I've had people panic when I've tried to tell them
their turn signal is on right and they're turning left.

people will panic if you try to tell them to turn on their lights.

They're was a case in CA a few years ago, 4 old chinese ladies
were stalled on train tracks and a train was approaching.
A black guy knocked on their windows yelling "there is a train coming get out of the car" but (according to witnesses), they refused to look and were afraid of the black guy so they averted their eyes.
the black guy busted the window with his bare fist and managed to drag one to safety as the train smashed into the car killing the rest of them.
witnesses said he was very distrught as he left the scene

 

[Homeseller]

U live on wrong side of river!

Rageofangels!

You need to come over to Northern Ky.-the good side of the river. We don't have anywhere near the problems that are so acute on the other side!

Homeseller

 

[robert garner]

Every day I get harrassed for money or smokes and I carry neither

As they aproach, look them in the eye and ask,
"Have you got a dollar?"

 

[rageofangels]

Homeseller

I used to live in Independence, KY and right off of Turkey Foot road! I loved the area and the neighborhood. A nice blue collar quiet neighborhood. Since you live in the NKY area, know of any good paying jobs!? I'd be more than willing to relocate!

 

[kymarkh]

Cincinnati

As another N. Ky resident forced by economics to cross the river into the maw of Cincinnati everyday I feel your pain. The sad truth is that sometimes this town is downright frightening (esp. after dark) and all of us cannot carry firearms/weapons to and from work. I'll be much happier if and when I find something on the 'right' side of the river.

 

[Wesker]

You're just paranoid. Was it broad daylight when you went to get your check? I'm assuming so.

Giant sprawling metropolises like Cinncinati are full of crazy iceholes that fly into a frenzied road rage at the drop of a hat. Being flipped off and hollered at is something you should get used to, and no amount of unnecessary 'training' is going to make you better at laughing at some of these kooks. If you want to difuse an angry motorist, just blow them a kiss and flash them a smile when they give you the finger and scream at you. My grandmother did this and she said their expressions are priceless.

If a guy wants to fight you for something you did in traffic, just kick him in the balls and run into a building if you're that nervous. How long have you lived in a big city?

 

[Brian D.]

I spend time in downtown Cincy too, at various hours of the day/night. No worse than other big cities I've visited, better than a few in fact. Keep in Condition Yellow and go about your business. Look for the tacticool dude near Straus Tobacco, Fountain News, Cincinnati Tobacconist, Batsakes, Tina's, Public Library, Neons, or Havana Martini Club, that may be me!

Special note for you glib northern Kentuckians: Keep building new commerce over there, you'll catch up with the Ohio side in terms of beggars/thieves etc. In the meantime, have "y'all" looked around East Covington south of about 10th street lately? How's about the projects in Newport? (Just because they tore those shacks down near the Licking River side, don't think there won't be more to come!)