Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Just got ROBBED at gunpoint!!!

Yeah Grunt I hear ya, I've been out of it for awhile, but have a blackbelt in RyuTe Kempo Karate. I almost put him to sleep with a few pressure point strikes, but thought, oh well....

Wow, glad your ok but that sure does suck.

Now that guy can buy a $50 crack rock and begin to look for his next victim....

Thanks for the support guys, I did go to my local sherrif station in Marina Del Rey. I think the Officer was new, when I told her the story her little face just lit up and she was like "Really". I wasn't sure if she was shocked that something like that really happened or if it was that I was really that stupid that it happened to me.

In any case I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else. I was born and raised with some street smarts in NY but I think I lost them living in my little country-bumpkin town in Ga. Kind of missing it a little more now.

Jim

Yeah, def. do future deals in a public place, preferably with security cameras/ect.

It's hard not to let training take over and just react isn‘t it? While stationed in New Zealand as and embassy guard another Marine and I (both having just come from high threat posts) were walking down Lampton Quay when there was a loud bang. We both dove into opposite sides of a shop doorway reaching in our jackets (for guns we aren’t carrying) to cover each direction. All of the Kiwis walking nearby stopping and stared at us. Realizing it was just a car backfiring we got up and looked at them and said “We’re Yanks! They all started nodding and looking at each other like it all made sense now.

I'm glad no one was hurt here, pride excluded perhaps. Unbelieveable what scum there is out there.

Glad to hear you are okay and nobody else was hurt.

Glad you guys made it out OK and didn't loose too much. Might be time to invest in some body armour.

JimT,
I am glad you and your body got out of the situation unharmed. I have to tell you, though, that giving that guy $53 and then making a run to the truck was stupid. I work in New Haven and grew up in NY. People can shoot others for the slightest of reasons and sometimes, for no reason at all. You took a big chance with both of your lives. You should have given him all the money and just walked away. I hope the police contacts that guy through craigslist and gets him before someone gets hurt.

Randy,
I am glad you have martial arts training, but he could have fired his gun and put you down, unless you could assuredly take that guy out (not hurting him badly,...I mean OUT). You made the right decision by not engaging him. The tool company and most retail stores are insured against robberies. Why would you risk your life for someone else's insured $2000. Glad you were not hurt.