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Ditto the "appearing out of nowhere" sentiment. It's even worse when you're on a motorcycle. You would think you would have the advantage of having better visibility, but you definitely have a disadvantage of nowhere to go when those guys do pop up out of nowhere.

Wife and I were on the bike stopped for gas at a pretty nice looking station on an Indian reservation in Arizona a few years ago. Since we were going to be passing through on the reservation for several hours, like a good little citizen I had disarmed and stuffed my weapon into the trunk on my Harley.

Sure enough, as I've gotten off the bike to gas up and watched my wife walk inside for a couple of bottles of water, this guy shows up out of nowhere, suddenly standing right next to me. He has a big pair of vice grips in his hand (thankfully in a big plastic blister pack wrapping hanger thing) asking me if I want to buy them from him for 5 bucks. Scared the snot out of me because I had no clue he was there until he was right on me!

I managed to say "no thanks, we're on the bike and we're already fully loaded." He mumbled something and walked away.

Thankfully nothing happened, but man, I have not forgotten that incident!