When the excrement hits the air conditioning, it makes a mess everywhere. About like this. Regardless, you need to cover your Active Self Protection when it comes your way or gets in your space, even if its not directed at you. If youre a customer or employee, how would you handle this? Lessons: 1. Sometimes youre not the victim or the intended victim, but violence can come your way regardless. Thugs are rarely interested in the collateral damage as long as they achieve their goals, so you can still get hurt in the maelstrom. Dont stay in the vicinity of the attack! Get away, get to safety, protect your family. The customers did a good job of this. Notice that they got away from the fight and put the counter in between them and the combatants. 2. Looking at the combatants for a moment, notice how chaotic this fight is. Adding a third party magnifies the chaos. Adding a fourth exponentially increases it again. Realize that the more people come to the fight, the more places attacks can come from and the more likely you are to get sucker punched and hurt. Raiders Fan Guy took a couple vicious kicks to the head because of the chaos. So if you find its going to be multiple opponents, make sure to fight all the more to get out of there in a hurry. 3. At what point is it legitimate to draw on these guys? Most of the fight is just a fight. Its not a deadly force encounter. But head kicks turn it into one. That said, do you want to get into the mix with a guy who appears to have instigated the fight? Do you want to be part of the issue at all, or is it better to just be a good witness and call 911? (cell phone video is always secondary to 911) Only you can decide that for your family. 4. Look at the Normalcy Bias (goo.gl/LFeGiY) here. The employees just put the tables back together...ho hum...just another day. You MUST be able to shake the Normalcy Bias off and prepare for this kind of incident. More than that, you must be ready to counter it and win against it. Attitude. Skills. Plan.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:00:00 +0000
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