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aardwolf wrote:

attila79 wrote:Suggestions, opinions, and advice please… a little bit of flaming is acceptable.

It sounds like you handled it in a responsible way and didn't escalate the situation.

My only suggestion is to act earlier. I'm not talking about the gun. These guys were causing a problem for a while so why not cross the street, go into a store or do something else to avoid the problem.

After the fact that suggestion of yours also crossed my mind, but if you've ever been to this little town it can be a bit dangerous crossing the street at any point besides a crosswalk. The cars were bumper to bumper and taking the risk of making my family cross where your not supposed to would be an unnecessary one. Let's not forget this was during the winter months so there was plenty of ice on the roads and the crosswalks seemed to have been treated for safe crossing.

After the situation is over you start to think that maybe you could of done something different. So it's good to hear others agreeing with my response towards these idiots.

I meant to post this a long time ago, but I guess it’s never to late….

Over the holidays my wife and in-laws decided they wanted to spend Christmas in Taos, New Mexico. During our stay we decided to walk along the main road that gets you to one of their main attraction centers where most of the tourists go to spend some money and time.

While walking you quickly notice that it can get a bit congested along the main road with cars stopped with the many stop lights and pedestrian cross walks. During our walk two males in a pick-up truck start to harass my wife and her sister. I do want to point out that they were walking ahead of us so it may have seemed that they weren’t a part of our party (you guys can yell at me for this I know I deserve it). As they were honking and harassing my wife and her sister I quickly catch up to them and ask them to get behind me. By this time the pick-up moved ahead of us as the traffic moved forward, but we quickly caught up to them at the next red light. As soon as we exchanged looks all hell broke lose the passenger starts to motion as if he’s going to get out of the car. At this point I was not worried because I felt that I could take him down on my own.

However, things started to get ugly when the driver started to act like he was reaching for something from his back seat. At this point I really felt threatened because I had no idea what he was reaching for all I knew it could have been a shotgun, bat, etc... I quickly raised my jacket slightly just enough so that I could react and draw if I needed to. The driver quickly took note of me placing my hand at my hip and noticed I had a little surprise for him if he decided to make a stupid move. As soon has the light turned green the driver told the passenger something and they sped off never to return.

To be honest I was so irritated by this point that during the whole altercation I did not speak a word because I really did not have any think nice to say. All I was telling myself was to remain calm and not to escalate the problem. Looking back maybe I should of asked them nicely, but loudly that I did not want any trouble and to move along. A couple of fellow chl holders expressed that they would have drawn not knowing what he had in the back seat.


Suggestions, opinions, and advice please… a little bit of flaming is acceptable.