if your security measures don't actually
work to protect you
they're just security theater hi
everyone this is John with today's
active self-protection lesson out of
Kazakhstan here we are going to see
security measures in place to protect a
microloan location that are utterly
useless and we're going to learn
important lessons about considering
whether our security measures are
actually useful whether we have a
back-up plan and when to fight and when
to comply
so this gal sitting behind the desk here
at a payday loan store and this guy
comes in and tries the door and she's
arguing with him I've sped it up a
little bit for the sake of time that
he's like hey let me in it's just no and
so he decides to just bash his way
through the glass with his fist and
after three punches he comes right on
through now she's gonna try to get out
of there but he's not gonna let her out
obviously and he drags her back by her
shirt and gets under the desk here and
takes all the money out of the desk now
we would wish that he's done here but
he's not he's gonna get a knife out and
she's gonna try to kind of you know keep
him away a little bit but he's not
having it I think it's kind of funny
here that she goes back and locks the
door while she's still talking to this
guy who again now he says oh okay I'm
gonna put this big old steak knife away
that I just threatened you with and
tried to slice you with and now he's
gonna tell her to sit down now what is
she gonna do at this point I just asked
yourself this question she puts her
hands up hey man I'm not a problem
now he's gonna talk with her about
sitting there and whatever and and she's
at his mercy and when he pulls that
knife again there's literally nothing
that she's gonna do nowhere for her to
go and nothing for her to do if he
decided that he wanted a killer but
thankfully this is where this one ends
let's go back and learn some lessons
there are some significant ones here and
the first thing is to have a way out I
think it's incredibly important that she
is stuck in this little box with no way
out and no back door whatsoever so
knowing that you are stuck in this box
you want to make sure that you have some
tools with you now I get that you know
every country is different and every
rule is different but man I wouldn't sit
there in that kind of environment
without some kind of a plan to protect
myself
and when he decides to go I think our
next lesson comes out of that that he
just busts on in there and this is
security theater have you thought about
yours
purity at this point and said wait a
minute does this really keep me secure
or is this just security theater in her
case clearly this was security theater
and now she's got to try to go out the
door that she's trying to use this
little lock and whatever that she was
trying to use to keep him out now he's
got a hold of her at this point and so
man when I teach self-defense all the
time you gotta know when when to defend
yourself and when to comply and without
the attitude and the skills and the plan
compliance was definitely her best bet
here because when she decided to kind of
pull at him and go that half-hearted
attempt that's when he got that knife
out and slashed at her and he could have
taken that as a personal affront and
stabbed her multiple times and killed
her here
so again if you're not gonna resist
fully comply fully because the
alternative to that is being stabbed
with the knife now in just interestingly
here she decides to go ahead and try to
lock this door again to reestablish some
sense of emotional security for herself
although he's able to just climb right
back over the window so it doesn't
really help her at all and again she is
at his mercy this is why I tell people
all the time when you are physically not
strong when you are not able to fight
significantly that's when tool use
becomes important now I don't know what
the firearms laws are for this
particular nation but for those of us
who live where we can't have firearms
this is why we certainly want to and you
do not want to threaten the ego of a an
attacker because it's exactly what
happens here he pulls that knife out
again so start some lessons here about
security theater about having the
ability to fight about going
wholeheartedly rather than pulling at
things and about getting a plan in place
as part of our attitude skills and plan
so that when the time comes we can cover
our ASP
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