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Excaliber wrote:They might even have had cell phones and didn't think to use them.

Good plans are hard to come up with under stress, and what is obvious later isn't at the time it's most needed.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Excaliber wrote:3. Folks who haven't done a lot of thinking situations through (like the very valuable activity that goes on in this Forum constantly) don't have a plan they can fall back on and execute. Instead they act impulsively - and often unwisely.

Like wandering into neighborhoods and knocking on doors in the middle of the night. Cell phones are so common today that even people getting handouts at a soup kitchen can snap photos of Michelle Obama with their camera phones. If the stabbed guy or the shot guy had a cell phone, that might have saved their lives. Even if they didn't have one, they could have asked someone else at the wedding party to call 911 instead of wandering out into the darkness. No plan.