Carjacked!
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Dumb question: how will they know it's a stickshift and thus avoid you and your vehicle?
Seems to me, that mistake will only be found out AFTER derailing you.
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Thank you everyone.
It's just a car. Insurance will cover it.
I am not traumatized nor going to have PTSD from it. It's over.
Yeah, this wasn't a movie set. Hidden guy, gun pointed at chest. Imagining one would do a Chuck N kick or quick draw is just silly. Just stay calm and comply. I already have a scar from my sternum to well below my navel and know for a fact that my car and ego aren't worth the potential cost.
Take care, be careful, and thank you for the good wishes.
It's just a car. Insurance will cover it.
I am not traumatized nor going to have PTSD from it. It's over.
Yeah, this wasn't a movie set. Hidden guy, gun pointed at chest. Imagining one would do a Chuck N kick or quick draw is just silly. Just stay calm and comply. I already have a scar from my sternum to well below my navel and know for a fact that my car and ego aren't worth the potential cost.
Take care, be careful, and thank you for the good wishes.
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BMW X3. Not even new, a 2010, but looks brand new. Well, it did look brand new.
It's probably already in a shipping container ready to be shipped off to a third world country where they don't care about pesky things like VIN numbers.
If you're going to go through the trouble of pointing a gun at someone at least steal something newer! I hope his homies are disappointed.
Same here, and you'd be putting him through college while his family moves into your house.
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That's what I told the cop!
His response was druggy doesn't think.
Yes, in this Maryland county you'd get 100 citations for State and county violations plus mandatory arrest for discharging a firearm in an urban area, and public endangerment. You can't shoot at a retreating perpetrator in Maryland. If he's driving away you're not in danger of your life.
I understand this point clearly.
A counterpoint would be that 'sometimes' situational awareness gives a victim the upper hand in this regard. It certainly did for me. I was attacked by 9, had my pistol out and a second magazine nearby. It seemed like I was able to smoothly draw in 1 second flat, but a realistic review indicates that it probably took about 3 seconds. In my case, I had the firearm on target, my thumb on the safety and was well practiced at safety-off, trigger pull. I would not have messed that up. I'm eternally grateful that I did not shoot. They put their hands up, weapon went flying by me and the situation was defused.
The legal followup was ugly and involved.
It does go to making your point though. I had the upper hand and knew it. I believed I was able to send lead downrange faster than he was able to complete his attack. Thankfully he recognized this. As did his buddies.
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Call me crazy but my carry weapon is to save life not take it. I can always get more stuff.
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Temple University police officer shot and killed trying to stop carjacking
University officials said Fitzgerald is the first Temple police officer to be killed in the line of duty.
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Cannot wait until all the Boomers & X-ers who hate on Millennials are too old to take care of themselves and need our assistance. We’ll just put them all in nursing homes, since we’re so selfish and stupid, while we eat our avocado toast and just laugh and laugh.
Maybe, although the younger people I associate with are decent human beings and don't think that way. So I'm not too concerned.
Funny. All the older folks know don’t actually treat younger people like they are all inept buffoons. Weird.
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