Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Dead Giveaways You’re About To Be Attacked” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/dead-giveaways-youre-about-to-be-attacked/.
Dead Giveaways You’re About To Be Attacked
- Thread starter Mike H.
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Certified Silly Goose
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Situational awareness is everything. Be alert, head on a swivel, trust your instincts. Walking around looking at the ground (or worse, your phone) or with headphones on is disastrous. Save that stuff for when you're home.
not too many "dead" giveaways in that article. So, here's a few the author missed - person crossing over towards your "walk lane", person nervously fidgeting while eyeing you up and down, person moving to intercept your intended point of travel, person putting one or both hands in pockets while stopping ahead or near your intended path, person moving to block your intended path to doorway, stairway or your vehicle.
HansGruber
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I consider anyone walking around in tactical gear without any obvious and proper credentials—and wearing a mask—an immediate and direct threat.
HansGruber
SAINT
Let’s not talk about gazing at their freakin’ phones…I call BS on the below. If this were true I wouldn’t constantly be growling at people walking slow as heck and not paying attention to a dang thing! Same thing with driving!
“Normal people walk about with self-determination and specific purpose”
Sharks79
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I have walked into them when they are head down walking towards me.
All reasons among others i try to avoid people
HansGruber
SAINT
I’m built wide and (almost) six feet tall.I have walked into them when they are head down walking towards me.
All reasons among others i try to avoid people
I brace for impact.
The Night Rider
Professional
I mean, you're not wrong.
The Night Rider
Professional
I'm going to say what I say every time this topic comes up. I worked as a security guard for 15 years. I basically people watched for a living and I got pretty good at it.
Over time I've observed certain behavior patterns that when I see them I know that person is up to something.
If I see somebody just aimlessly loitering someplace where there's really no reason for them to be loitering they're almost always doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
Another one that is somewhat specific to being a security guard is when just my presence changes their behavior. If the aimless loiterer watches me come around the corner making my rounds and he takes off he was up to something.
BUT if I come walking around the corner and the aimless loiterer becomes laser focused on what I'm doing, I'm probably the target which connects to the last one which IMO is the most important
If someone is paying an inordinate amount of attention to you, you had better be paying attention to them because it's been my experience but they're sizing you up and deciding whether or not you're a mark. Even if it's just to put the mooch on you for a couple of bucks.
Over time I've observed certain behavior patterns that when I see them I know that person is up to something.
If I see somebody just aimlessly loitering someplace where there's really no reason for them to be loitering they're almost always doing something they're not supposed to be doing.
Another one that is somewhat specific to being a security guard is when just my presence changes their behavior. If the aimless loiterer watches me come around the corner making my rounds and he takes off he was up to something.
BUT if I come walking around the corner and the aimless loiterer becomes laser focused on what I'm doing, I'm probably the target which connects to the last one which IMO is the most important
If someone is paying an inordinate amount of attention to you, you had better be paying attention to them because it's been my experience but they're sizing you up and deciding whether or not you're a mark. Even if it's just to put the mooch on you for a couple of bucks.
The Night Rider
Professional
Those are kind of the same thing.
Actually happened to me one night.
I was walking my dog and a guy across the street changed his direction of travel straight at me.
I turned to face him and put my hand in my pocket (on my gun).
He stopped and turned 90°from his direction of travel and walked away.
For all I know it was pure coincidence.
HansGruber
SAINT
You know, all the joking I’ve made in this thread aside—
This.
I’ve had more than one instance in my life where someone is obviously tracking me, etc..
I can’t explain it beyond you JUST KNOW.
So far, it’s always worked for me to lock eyes with them—let them know that I know, and that I’ll dance if they want to…but I’m gonna call the tune.
It works for me, I guess. Maybe I’m wrong, and there’s random folks who think about that one a-hole, that one time…
But I don’t think I was wrong.
Talyn
SAINT
+100.
I've had to do this a few times.
Most notable, I was in Portland, OR for a training session in the early 2000's, was staying downtown and once I checked in I decided to go for a walk on the River Front Trail. Going along I noticed a gang of youths about 100 yds away.
They saw me and rushed up. They (I saw that they were feral when they got to me) were led by a "crazy-eyed" young gal. We stared each other down while I was going thru the check-list.
She then decided I wasn't worth the trouble even though they had me out-numbered. She gave some order and the gang ran off to their original location.
I continued on with my walk while having my situation awareness pegged in the red zone. There were no more incidents.
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More recently, I was leaving a store a young (looked under-aged) gal with a baby approached me. She couldn't speak English but held out a s-phone with an app open asking for a cc tap donation.
I indicated I wouldn't do anything & continued to my truck. Then a rig with out-of-state plates pull up behind my truck and the driver (much older than her), who looked like an ISIS recruiter, stared me down thru the windshield. I stared him down, he said something in Arabic-like language and the young gal with baby got in.
I always park pointing out so not to get blocked in, and after a couple of more minutes of him staring at me they took off.
Always have your situation awareness radar on, and plan for any exit/incident if conditions are leaning that way.
My .02
HansGruber
SAINT
Sharks79
Custom
Oh I meant being around them.
I intentionally walk into them so they bounce off my fat ****