road rage is an unfortunate fact in our
world and you better be ready to deal
with it thank you for joining us on
today's active self protection lesson
I'm not positive where this one comes
from but I guarantee it'll lessons that
it teaches are applicable the world over
if your homeowners insurance is like
mine it does not cover your firearms or
other collectibles for that I use
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recommend them highly I don't have
information about what started this road
rage incident but the car on the left
here is gonna pull over and when our guy
pulls around he's gonna pull out in
front of him you can see it's a nice car
it's a mercedes-benz that he's in front
of him and I was just gonna stop here in
the middle of the freeway watch right
under this bridge he's just gonna
completely stop and then decide he wants
to get out and fight but our driver
decides nope ain't having it hits the
accelerator and gets around him and gets
gone from him now again it's gonna take
that bad guy a few seconds to get back
in the car notice as we come watch the
left-hand side here as he gets up to
speed you can see the the lights there
of the trooper that he's just gonna
drive right on by and not spot stop and
pay any attention to we do not get to
see any more of the bad guy because he
got the heck out of the danger zone and
that is where this one ends I swear
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they get behind the wheel of a car if
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let's check lessons from today's video
first and foremost we must always
recognize that road rage is stupid and I
say that on the channel all the time
these people are strangers you're never
gonna see them again so probably the
best thing you can do if God forbid you
did something you know you didn't mean
to you pull you cut somebody off like
you didn't mean to you took their lane
or whatever it's just waving apologize
hey man sorry about that put a hand up
in the air and wave and apologize that
will probably solve so much of these
problems might still be pissed but may
not get into this kind of a rage and
want to stop and fight with you so being
willing to apologize swallow your ego
and just go hey man my bad whatever even
if it wasn't your bad isn't necessarily
a bad thing now dude decides to get in
his lane and now as he changes lank guy
changes back and that
your indicator right here that this guy
really wants to fight and this is beyond
him just kind of trying to be a jerk to
you or whatever he is going to stop you
here we're gonna have a problem this is
the place in the point right now to be
on the phone with 911 say hey I got a
road rage case I need an officer right
here because I don't want to get in a
problem with this particularly and
especially again I don't know where this
one was but I think that you know if
you're here where I am in Arizona people
carry guns and you know this could
escalate really really quickly you want
to be on the phone with the cops so then
that way you know you get some help
headed your way that said it's not going
to get there in time
so in this case because the bad guy's
gonna provoke here so he stops right
here out in the middle of everything and
think about how dangerous this is
first of all car could come from right
behind you and plow into you secondly
recognize that I think the best thing
that our defender did here is he left
himself some space he didn't just come
right on up to this guy he gave himself
some space so he doesn't have to back up
he can get around him third you really
want to be able to pay attention to your
mirrors in this particular case you want
to figure out which way am I going where
are the threats coming where do I have
space to act
I think forth and understand the
abilities of your vehicle how much can I
push this car when the time comes and
how fast can I get out of this place and
I think that's why driving a car that
has some horsepower is a good thing here
to get you out of this danger zone so
thinking that staying calm in the moment
incredibly important now dude's gonna
jump out of his car and as soon as he
gets out of his car you got a decision
to make because he's not coming out to
talk to you about Jesus or to bring you
some flowers or something now is the
time to act now then you got to
recognize eyes hands and waist recognize
really here what matters is you already
know it is antennas you know the window
of his soul is wide open you stopped in
the middle of traffic
so you're looking at his hands and and I
think the right answer here is to use
the car rather than to use the gun or
something like that even if you're armed
probably getting a gun out is not a
great idea in this particular instance
because you've got a better choice and
that's the car now notice here that our
defender what goes around the left I
don't see any cars that come to the
right so I would say that as a default
setting I'd rather go towards the
passenger side than the driver's side
and the reason for that that maintains
the car as a barrier between you and
this dude that just jumped out and has
all kinds of angry you know otherwise he
may kick your car he might have a
crowbar he might have a
something like that so the default
settings should be passenger side of
course if there's traffic over there the
driver's side is the safest direction
then you go that route but that's a
default that I would rather not hit now
then hit this gas stop it as hard as you
can right now being a you know a
law-abiding citizen that drives the
speed limit not the smartest thing not
the thing you care about but paying
attention is notice here we can see on
the left hand side there is a state
trooper this is a police officer what
you want to do right now is get pulled
way over there to the left get in front
of that officer and flag him down
because when that guy comes up hey
officer that guy is road-raging me he
has stopped in the middle of the highway
jumped out of his car wants to fight me
I don't want to fight him I need some
help now you have somebody there with
not only with the color of law but with
other force options and you have
somebody else and probably cool that guy
right off because he's probably gonna
want to fight you in front of a cop at
any rate let's make sure that we learn
about being aware in our vehicle about
the rules of social niceties and and
just saying I'm sorry and swallowing
your ego about maintaining distance from
other cars using the best route in the
car that we can using the car
effectively and staying aware and paying
attention in the moment to find that cop
who isn't an available spot to cover our
ass