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seamusTX wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:I have met Jim face to face before and broke bread with him. He has great situational awareness ...

Thanks.

Actually the act of putting groceries in the trunk makes a person vulnerable in a lot of ways. I try to move one eye to the back of my head when I'm doing it.

I drive a regular cab pickup, so I'm either putting them on the passenger seat or in the bed, which may or may not help.

Many robberies seem to start out with seemingly voluntary requests sort of like the old "offer you can't refuse".

In some cases they are hoping the victim will give in but have no intention of robbery (Street corner "squeegee men" are a good example)

In some cases the rejection angers them and a "crime of passion" results.

And is some cases the plan is to rob the victim regardless of how they respond.

My 2002 Tundra pickup has a few dents near the driver-side door due to my clumsiness in a parking garage invloving metal beams and backing out while turning.

Every so often someone will yell to me that they can fix that, usually when we both are driving. None have ever been agressive.

More recently, a car drove by me in a Home Depot parking lot and told me I had a flat tire, which I did not, which seemed suspicious.

Most of the encounters mentioned in this thread seem to be repair scams, i.e. "Soft robberies".