today i've got a question for you if
you're sure that armed robbers are going
to kill you
will you comply anyways and hope you're
wrong
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hey everybody welcome to today's lesson
at active self protection i'm your host
john korea
today's video comes to us from colorado
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is a single mom of either two or three
depending on the news story that you
read who
is working for this armored truck
company has a whole bunch of cash coming
out there and now watch the suv to the
bottom right as she opens the cash truck
they're gonna pile out with one long gun
and two handguns
and flex cuffs so you can see them here
from the other angle where they jump out
again handguns a long gun a bag
flex cuffs and she decides nope she
isn't going to give them any kind of a
hard time
she actually gets on her knees there by
the front wheel of the vehicle
next to her and then they are going to
actually
suss her down grab her phone and her
wallet and all that stuff
while they grab huge piles of cash out
of the back of the armored vehicle
and then they are going to jump in their
car now if you go read the news story
that i have linked in the description
i've linked several of them
the armored car company actually fired
her right after this apparently on a
technicality i can't find
any follow-up as to why or what happened
from there
but these guys got away apparently the
fbi is still looking for him but they
don't have a ton of leads
at this point so i sure hope these guys
get caught thankfully she did not
get hurt and they did get away she did
unfortunately lose her job and that is
where this one
ends all right honest question what
would you have done in that situation
would you draw down and go to work
or just hope for the best i think that
it's one we really gotta talk about
first of all not a great place to set up
for this kind of event but sometimes you
gotta do what you gotta do
obviously it's snowy it's wet you got a
truck backed up in here with a bunch of
other traffic
around and a bunch of other cars around
which provides
an opportunity for an ambush this is a
definitional transitional space
you have a place where bad guys can
launch an attack with an element of
surprise
they can get away quickly and they have
ready access to the valuables that they
want so they wait for her to
open up the door to the armored truck of
course she had a bunch of money with her
to begin with
and then you know on the hand cart and
then they launched their attack
and and paying attention is the only way
that you're going to
to keep these from happening or give
yourself an opportunity in these
transitional spaces but very difficult
when you got a job to do like she does
but of course having that much valuables
you really do
got to pay attention now then they come
out and you got multiple armed attackers
and you notice that she puts her hands
in the air in surrender and she said
in the interview again i've linked it in
the description that she decided that
the money of the company wasn't worth
her life
and i couldn't agree more they're not
gonna pay for her you know recovery from
a gunfight and those things
no harm in complying if you choose that
as the best strategy
to survive in the moment now then we
could talk about a couple of other
things that are coming here but notice
as well that she gets then down on her
knees we're going to talk about that
pretty significantly
now i do want to say i want to pay
attention to the fact that dude number
two comes out with a set of flex cuffs
and that's really dangerous
now she puts her hands in the air okay
fine i don't necessarily want to have a
stand and deliver gunfight with a guy
with a pistol and then a second guy with
a rifle who's advancing on me
that's a losing man's proposition right
there losing woman's proposition for
that matter
so sometimes compliance is the right
answer and purposeful compliance can be
the right answer for sure
but notice what she did though was she
kind of button hooked back around the
door and then
got on her knees perhaps a better
solution there
get around the truck and run like heck
now then and in the end of things this
came out okay
and i'm not going to say that she did
poorly or wrong because
she came out of this okay she has her
life she can always find a new job
all those things very dangerous though
and these guys with zip ties that's a
great way to get shot
it's a great way to die now thankfully
these guys are not murderers they're
robbers but you put yourself at the
hands of violent felons
when you do that worked out okay might
have been a better solution again to get
around the pickup truck and then run
like heck get out of the danger zone and
then that way let them get to their
robbery
without the danger to you and all those
things but
what she did worked okay so success
covers a multitude of sins and that's
totally fine
i do think we need to think about as
self-defenders
as non-sworn as private citizens what
we're willing to fight for and what
we're not i think compliance was a
perfectly viable solution in this
particular
uh you know problem i think that you can
always find a new job i'm not willing to
die for company money either so i think
that that's not necessarily a bad thing
and you should think that through before
the time comes let's also think here
about the parking lot and the problem
that it presents for us
and paying attention in these
transitional spaces to give us the best
opportunity we can to cover our asp