Situational awareness, and fighting attitude.

[KBCraig]

The lady in this story admittedly did not display good situational awareness. But when danger presented itself, she reacted decisively, and immediately got back to a source of help.

The language in the tale is not 10yod safe. Short version: waitress in a bar gets stiffed on a $300 tab by a large party, after she'd warned the owner/manager they were up to something. Party leaves an incriminating note, leading police to identify of all of them. One of them comes clean and makes things right; the rest still face charges. A group of those still under charges shows up one night, leaves after being threatened with arrest, but one of them hangs around and assaults waitress when she gets off work.

She wins.

Story here. (edited, because the domain name is "impolite".)

Hooray for her, and I hope she learned about awareness!

Kevin

[Liberty]

A 105 lb woman delivers a single round house to the ear / temple and brings the BG to his knees. I think there was some adrenalin running through her veins. She was very lucky.

[jbirds1210]

I think she made a command decision...this dirt bag is not going to hurt me today. She made a decision and followed through.

In my experiences....the hardest I was ever hit was by a person I did not think could deliver that kind of blow. Small size was an advantage to them and they jumped on the opportunity! I will NEVER make that mistake again. My head was ringing for two days.

I would think this is especially true in the eyes of a jury

[dihappy]

That was a great story. I wonder what she would have done if she had been armed?

She was definitely smaller than the guy and im sure she wouldnt have had too much of a difficult time in court.

[flintknapper]

I'm 6'-5" and 260 lbs.

I tried to remove a raccoon (by hand) from my Father in Laws barn once.

As I recall, it was much smaller than me.

Raccoon 1-0.
Flint 0-1.

An abject lesson was learned that day.

[jbirds1210]

LOL, Flint.....you are killin me! That does sound like a very tough lesson!

[txinvestigator]

One thing martial arts taught me is to NEVER underestimate someone. I got my clock cleaned by a 16 year old girl sparring once because I was treating her like a 16 year old girl.

[Roger Howard]

LOL, Flint.....you are killin me! That does sound like a very tough lesson!

My brother tried that with a raccoon in a car once.
Raccoon 1-0
brother 0-1

He learned as well.


Customers like that are all too common in the service industry. I worked as a manager. People like that are why I went back to driving trucks. My wife was a manager as well and we had a problem with a stalker.

She was extreemly lucky the guy didn't just stab her. I never allowed my employees to leave alone. THAT'S WHY.

[flintknapper]

LOL, Flint.....you are killin me! That does sound like a very tough lesson!

My brother tried that with a raccoon in a car once.
Raccoon 1-0
brother 0-1

He learned as well.

EEEEK! Might have been the same one. That would make him 2 and 0.



What I have concluded is:

A. Raccoon's don't know how big they are ( or aren't).

B. They just don't care.

One thing is certain, I don't judge how "tough" something is by its size anymore.

[HighVelocity]

Good for her and luckily no racoons tried to intervene.

[stevie_d_64]

Try a buzzard on for size...

Had a lowspeed collision with one just this side of Elgin, Texas years ago...

Flew over the hood and into my open window...And ended up convulsing, puking and other stuff in the back seat of my Firebird...

When I sold the car, it still had stains from that nastyness...

I rode for years after that with the windows up, regardless if it was nice or not...

[HighVelocity]

Try a buzzard on for size...

Had a lowspeed collision with one just this side of Elgin, Texas years ago...

Flew over the hood and into my open window...And ended up convulsing, puking and other stuff in the back seat of my Firebird...

Ok, hold on a second here. You were driving a firebird... Did it have a big bird painted on the hood? The buzzard could've been trying to make friends.

[UNBLVR]

One thing martial arts taught me is to NEVER underestimate someone.

Agreed. And from the "rules for a gunfight"...

Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.

Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

To me these two always apply when you just can't get away...whether you're armed or not.







Joe

[revjen45]

One of the most ferocious people I ever met was 4'10". His hobby was picking fights with Marines in 29 Palms. One person pulled a knife on him and showed up for work on monday needing enough dental work to pay for a nice used car. Not surprisingly he was was known as the Tasmanian Devil. Nobody who knew him wanted to tangle with him.