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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!unisql!wrat
- From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: more on car jacking
- Message-ID: <4419@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:57:18 GMT
- References: <724876413.AA06207@urchin.fidonet.org>
- Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA
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- In article <724876413.AA06207@urchin.fidonet.org> Stovall@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Stovall) writes:
- >(Deleted discussion about whether to stay or exit auto when confronted
- >with hammer wielding assailant on passenger side.)
- >WH>If someone tries to get in the driver's door all you have to do is
- >WH>open the door and hit him with it...
- >Bad idea. Just floor the gas pedal...the longer the attacker
-
- (I've actually had to deal with this kind of situation a few times.
- I spent 5 years as a cab driver in a small East Coast city.)
-
- Typically, you'll be parked and only able to move the car a few
- feet in any one direction, so you need to be careful about where you try to
- drive it. That being said, it's very difficult to enter a locked car
- that's moving back and forth even a few feet, and impossible if the you've
- got enough room to actually drive away.
-
- One time I was making a pickup at some sleazy bar. I was pulled head
- on into the bar's lot, so that there were cars on either side and a wall in
- front. Occasional traffic behind me.
-
- While I'm waiting for my fare this drunk comes up and starts to get
- in. Naturally, when I tell him he can't he gets all loud and nasty and
- tries to reach in my window to unlock the back door. So I backed up. When
- he caught up to me I went forwards again.
-
- This was a fun game until my fare came out and I had to stop
- to let her in the car. Now the drunk finds my window again and decides
- he's going to punch my head through the opening. So I open my door and
- knock his shins. By this time the lady's in the cab. Mr. Drunk tries to tag
- me as I go by but just hits my old green Checker.
-
- It would have been easy to pin him against the wall or one of the
- parked cars if I'd had to, or wait for a break in the traffic behind me
- and just leave.
-