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Awhile back I told these stories to John Perkins and he asked me to write them down to share with our GC community (sorry it took so long John). After forty years of survival-fighting study, I would like to share three stories that demonstrate the valuable lessons they teach.
To preface: whether I’m in front of a class or with people who have come to me for private lessons, I always ask if they have ever been in a real confrontation. Almost 99% of the responses involved ‘ego-based’ confrontations -- that could have been easily avoided.
A Bar Fight
While in college I became friends with a man named Jim [not his real name], a wonderful kind, fun person. Jim grew up on a farm in upstate New York, which made him tough in body and mind. Unfortunately, he was not one to back down from a fight. After college, he headed to Alaska seeking a position in the fishing trade. Jim liked to hang out in bars, laugh and drink beer. One night, after hearing he was from New York, a local tough guy picked a fight with him, just because he was from the East. The moron slapped him on the back of the head, at which point Jim threw a quick jab from a sitting position, saying “Leave me alone.” The guy lost his balance, fell over backwoods, hit his head on a bar stool, and died. Jim was given seven years in prison, he got out in five. He was never the same.
ADVICE:
Don’t become the second moron -- Only fight for your life.
If you sense danger, leave the scene!
Home Invasion
I was sitting at a restaurant bar having dinner and started a conversation with a very nice, intelligent couple from Texas sitting next to me. As we told stories and laughed, I couldn’t help but notice the horrific scars on the women's left hand. I asked “What happened to your hand? It looks like a tiger clawed you!” Her husband immediately said “She doesn’t talk about that.” He was in disbelief when she said “I think I’m ready to talk about it now.” After she told me the story she wept, and her hands were trembling. This is how traumatic a life or death fight can be on one’s life.
A year earlier her family was relaxing in front of the television. This couple had two children, a girl thirteen and a boy age nine. The door bell rang, her husband went to the door and looked through the peep hole. There was a smiling man, matching brown shirt, pants and hat, a box in his hand. “Delivery” he said. As soon as the door was opened the man dropped the box and took out a knife. “Give me what I want and nobody gets hurt.” Dad lets the intruder in and said “Take what you want, just don’t hurt my family.”
The Mother and two kids stood petrified not knowing what to do. Things immediately got worse. He duct taped the compliant husband to a chair, hands behind his back. He ordered the wife to gather money and jewelry, and she did. But that was not enough. He then told the young girl to take off her clothes. Realizing the intruder was going to rape her daughter, the women jumped on him swinging. She was quickly hit and thrown to the floor. The boy, age nine, trying to protect his mom, picked up a figurine and tried to hit the man with no effect. He turned on the boy, threw him to the floor, and punched him unconscious.
When she saw that, she turned into a wild animal and gabbed the first thing she could -- a table fan with sharp, spinning metal blades. As the blades cut into her hand and fan cord was pulled out of the wall (it was like slow motion), she hit the scumbag in the back of the head. Screaming, she kept hitting him with the fan, even though he was unconscious after the first blow. She kept bashing his head until her husband yelled to her to stop. She said she wanted to kill him. After freeing her husband and duct taping the intruder, they called the police.
Everybody survived, and the scumbag was put in prison.
ADVICE:
- Prepare your family ahead of time for emergencies, what to do if there is a fire, or, if outright horror breaks out.
- Have a secret word if horror presents itself. When yelled, your family knows to run to their designated escape routes. Practice the escape, just once actually is enough.
- Research shows that taking control away from the perpetrator as soon as possible can throw the situation in your favor.
- The longer you wait to act, the worse it will get!
FBI Agent, First Day on the Job
My dentist and close friend had a FBI agent as a patient and thought we should meet because of this story (which happened on his first day on the job). He was driving with his partner and they decided to get some coffee at a convenience store. While the agent was waiting to order, a man in front of him pulls out a knife, says not to move,and demands money from the cashier. The agent steps back, draws his gun and says to the would-be robber “don’t move and place the knife on the counter.”
But then the agent, feeling the knife was still too close to the robber, took his eyes off the man and pushed the knife further away. The robber immediately lunged at him with lighting speed; the agent was knocked back, quickly fired two shots and the robber fell to the floor. The agent held his gun on the robber and stood up. His partner, hearing the shots, rushed in to assist.
The agent told me he then started to shake uncontrollably, since this was the first time he ever shot anyone. Thinking he was just punched, he then noticed a knife sticking out of his stomach just below his bullet proof vest. He made a second mistake by panicking and pulling the knife out. He almost bled to death. The robber died.
ADVICE:
Never take your eyes off a threat, and always assume there is more then one weapon.
--Gary Abatelli, GC 4th Degree
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