There are times when a good hissy fit with screaming and hands waving in the air and running away real fast is called for, and this robbery seems like just such a time.
I am not a teenage girl. But I can still scream and shout and run about. Or (more age-appropriately, I could have a “heart attack.”
Since store policy is to let the robber have what he wants, I want to make sure I am nowhere nearby in case he wants to shoot me after the robbery. Let him open the register himself, I’m leaving if I can’t shoot back.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:06 am
There are times when a good hissy fit with screaming and hands waving in the air and running away real fast is called for, and this robbery seems like just such a time.
I am not a teenage girl. But I can still scream and shout and run about. Or (more age-appropriately, I could have a “heart attack.”
Since store policy is to let the robber have what he wants, I want to make sure I am nowhere nearby in case he wants to shoot me after the robbery. Let him open the register himself, I’m leaving if I can’t shoot back.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:31 am
If he tells me he has a gun, I’m going to believe him and act accordingly. If he ends up with a few new holes in his body, that’s his own fault.
I’m certainly not going to risk being shot in the back trying to run away if I’m wrong.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:17 am
Mikee: verbal unarmed resistance is absolutely the most dangerous thing to do during a robbery, according to the Kleck study.
The safest thing to do is to silently pull your own pistol and start shooting immediately, according to that same study.