When you go back and think about it...No matter what the end result being...You obviously can't say your reaction was without thinking...That would be bad...Yet the reaction was fast and on automatic...Excaliber wrote:Steve,stevie_d_64 wrote:Makes you wonder why anyone would think a parking lot is a good place for a mark...(At least me!)
Wife-Unit and I were coming out from having breakfast at the City Cafe on Airport/College and Hwy 3 (this last Saturday)...We just got about halfway into that small parking lot and this guy came running directly at us from across the main street there, right for us at about as fast as it looked like he could run...I used periferal vision to see if any traffic was making him do this, and at the same time I stepped up ahead and in between him and Wife-Unit...
The guy was just about across when I basically had the cover shirt back and the hand just about ready to draw...The guy never took his eyes off us, and obviously since there waas no traffic coming down the street, it was looking worse and worse every half nanosecond from then on out...
I got set, hand came up and I said "STAY BACK!"...He hit the skids and the feet came out from under him and he hit the newly paved parking lot real hard...I thought for a second he was going for an open field tackle, but I guess my action helped change his mind...He got up and kinda trotted off down the sidewalk toward Hwy 3 after that...Never did explain himself...
It didn't look like he had a weapon, but I sure as heck did not want to be hit in the numbers by this knucklehead...
I guess what was dissapointing is that the Wife Unit didn't even see it coming till the guy was slipping as I yelled at him...
All in all it was a good lesson for her to get her head out of her purse, and up and about on a swivle...
I cannot be there all the time...
I guess it can happen anytime and anywhere...Just never ceases to amaze me...
Kudos to you for great situational awareness, quick thinking, protective positioning, aggressive verbal and nonverbal challenge, and perfect results - no harm to you or the wife unit, no legal or financial aftermath, and an opportunity to improve the wife unit's preparedness for next time. It doesn't get any better than that.
You have to train the mind, as much as you train the mechanics in self-defense techniques...
But then again, you need to realize that it shouldn't consume your every thought, you need to live and enjoy life to the fullest, and be prepared to respect life, by being prepared to take a life, to defend it...