Video - Attempted Carjacking

[Bartholomew Roberts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpyoaWTy80

This video from Brazil emphasizes the importance of good situational awareness is cutting down your OODA-cycle response time. As the driver of a car is getting into his vehicle at night, he notices two young men approaching. If you watch on full screen, you can see the first thing he does is reach between the seat and grab a pistol as he sits down. No sooner has he closed his door then his suspicions are confirmed and he is in a gunfight.

The fastest draw in the world wouldn't have done him much good; but having good situational awareness and planning during the Observation and Orientation phase gave him the edge he needed to come out victorious in a VERY fast-paced fight.

 

[Sol]

He must have seen those guys coming from a distance.

 

[TarDevil]

Awesome educational video.

My wife still isn't what I'd call a "gun" person, though she loves her Maverick 88 and keeps it by her side at night. What she has learned from our time together is such situational awareness in parking lots, around ATMs, etc.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Doing some research, I discovered that the driver did indeed get grazed in the head. He killed one of the attackers and the other one was hit and arrested.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Pretty serious graze ... (picture and video at link not for the squeamish)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19b_1427667468

Hope he got medical attention.

 

[climbnjump]

Pretty serious graze ... (picture and video at link not for the squeamish)

Yeah, I'm not sure if that would result in Excedrin headache #9, #40 or #45.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Pretty serious graze ... (picture and video at link not for the squeamish)

You notice the assailant didn't use sights but just point and shot from almost contact distance? I bet if the victim had been a cardboard target, that would have looked like a "Good hit" too. Although, as promised, the first shot was plenty fast.

 

[Crowcifier666]

Forgive me, what's an OODA-cycle? Thought this was a car jacking

Thanks for sharing.

 

[bikerdoc]

Why was his gun off body?
Why did he let them approach from the rear?
Why did he sit down facing forward and have to turn to his left to engage?

Lucky man for all those lapses.

 

[climbnjump]

Forgive me, what's an OODA-cycle?

Observe, orient, decide, act...

More information can be found here:

http://www.spartancops.com/ooda-loop-simple-concept-modern-combat-strategy/

 

[Deaf Smith]

He must have seen those guys coming from a distance.

I think he saw with eye contact they were thinking of doing something.

But, if had been me, I'd wait till the walked on past before getting into the car so as to keep mobile.

I thought Brazil didn't allow people to pack guns? I think you can posses a .38 Spl or .380 but nothing larger.

Observe, orient, decide, act...

Add the color code system, white, yellow, orange, red. And then don't do the three stupids (don't go to stupid places with stupid people and do stupid things.)

All that together spells awareness and decisive action.


Deaf

 

[Coyote3855]

Fred Fuller's link says the driver was an off-duty cop.

 

[ACP]

Too many videos like that from Brazil to make me ever want to visit.

 

[Speedo66]

Too many videos like that from Brazil to make me ever want to visit.

No different from most central and south American countries.

A friend's son married a girl whose family is from Guatemala, and has some money. The family's house is surrounded by barbed wire, and their automobile is literally armored and driven by an armed driver/guard. Not how I'd like to live my life, and I certainly have no interest in visiting.

 

[WardenWolf]

All I can say to that is, "Oops." Even though he made plenty of mistakes, they still messed with the wrong guy.

 

[JohnKSa]

I thought Brazil didn't allow people to pack guns?

It's a different world. If you have money and/or know the right people you can do anything.

That said, the guy in the car was an off duty cop. Also, it looked to me like he wasn't carrying the gun. It looks like he retrieved it from the center console of the car--I think that's why he got in when they walked up even though it probably wasn't a great decision to limit his mobility by sitting down in the car.

One other observation. It's fortunate that the attacker didn't understand that he could have shot through the glass in the back window and then through the seat back after the glass was gone. The only reason the defender survived is that the attacker decided to come all the way up to the front window to fire through it.

 

[230RN]

Looked more like an assassination attempt than a carjacking, and that he suspected an attempt would be made at some point in time.

That, rather than a carjacking attempt against a random guy who just happened to be a cop.

Makes you wonder if the cop put the wrong guy behind bars or something. Maybe he was a witness in a bigwig's case.

Without a sound track, it just didn't look like a plain vanilla carjacking to me. Who wants to steal a car with brains all over the dashboard?

 

[JohnKSa]

Again, it's a different world. Brains wash off and that car is worth a tremendous amount of money in that world.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Looked more like an assassination attempt than a carjacking, and that he suspected an attempt would be made at some point in time.

That was my thought.