speedsix wrote:...it's dangerous to underestimate your enemy...crooks, gangbangers, dope dealers...are often highly intelligent and focused on their "job"...it's easy to think all criminals are dumb, but it will rise up and bite you...
While they do some dumb things just like the rest of us, they often more than make up for what they lack in IQ with cunning, agility, street experience and explosive violence.
If you haven't spent a lot of time in their world, you should be aware that they have a whole repertoire of tactics that will astonish you when seen for the first time.
As Speedsix sagely advised, it's a major and potentially fatal error to underestimate them. They should be regarded like rattlesnakes - fast, deadly, and capable of things you wouldn't imagine if you hadn't seen them for yourself.
That's why avoidance is golden, distance is your friend, and close encounters, even when armed, do not always have happy endings.