let's say you walk up to your vehicle
and you notice someone's trying to steal
it and nobody's in it what do you do
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parking lot in portland i've sped this
up these guys have showed up in the
toyota and they see the car next to him
is a nice audi and they decide they want
to steal it and get into it so they pop
the window out of it and now the guys
who are that's their car it's a friend
you know two friends who came to
apparently go have drinks and dinner at
some place and and you see our bad guys
have a look out here and two dudes
trying to get into that audi and now our
victims here one in a different car
that's kind of across the parking lot
here and the guy who owns the audi walks
by these guys so the robbers are going
to chill they're going to act like they
had nothing to do with it while these
guys walk by to see if they can get him
to leave it alone now what's going to
happen though is the guy hits his
clicker and and notice that it says hey
somebody's been in the car like does the
the big chirp so these guys are gonna
walk up and now our robbers are gonna be
like yo dude what's up with that and
they're gonna go jump in their car and
try to bag out out of there now the uh
person closest to us on the passenger
side sees what they've got going he's
actually got a gun in his hand there and
he sees them trying to get in and
realizes that they've busted out a
window and sees that they've broken in
and he is gonna go chase after them and
shoot at them five times as they drove
off and you know we know this because if
you go watch the original uh the the uh
a girl who was dating this guy who took
this surveillance footage and put it on
the internet says that she was nearby
and heard those five shots that were hit
they didn't end up getting anything out
of the car apparently the car was not
stolen they never found the bad guys i
don't think this guy faced any charges
either but we're gonna think about a few
lessons out of this one because they go
and chase this guy as the end here
that's interesting okay so let me hear
from you i want you to comment down
below and let me know would you have
done what these guys did or would you
have just bounced out of there called
the cops would you have drawn earlier
how would you have handled it let's talk
about it in the lessons too i do think
it's worth noting car theft's on the
rise big time here in america with the
value of used cars being up so much car
parts being so expensive so of course
you don't want to leave valuables out
where they can be seen in your vehicle
you don't want to you know leave your
car unlocked stuff like that but i mean
hey if you drive a nice vehicle nice
vehicles get stolen because they're nice
and because people want them and so you
got to recognize that is a threat make
sure your insurance is paid for and that
you have full coverage on your vehicle
and if you've got a nice vehicle you
will now let's think about what happens
here is these guys are kind of walking
back to their car this is one of the
things i say paying attention is a
really good thing and recognizing what's
going on in your world is a really good
thing and our dude here decides hey i'm
gonna check things out and i'm gonna hit
my my unlock and lock button and see
what it says because normally if the car
has been messed with it will give you a
different chirp instead of like two or
whatever it will actually tell you that
somebody's been in or around the vehicle
so that was actually a really great
strategy but i don't think that what he
did afterwards was great strategy
because again these guys are trying to
get into your car these guys are very
often armed and and therefore i think if
you see that maybe hollering at him hey
get away from my car dude what are you
doing but staying away and keeping your
distance would probably have been the
smarter thing here because when you walk
in you're walking into danger and and i
don't think that's necessarily a very
prudent thing to do it's perfectly
acceptable for you to defend your
property but i don't know if it is is
prudent thing to do so these guys decide
to bug out and notice that our passenger
here right here he actually has a
firearm on his person and i think has it
out at this point now depending on the
state that you live in in some states
you know if you're at risk of a physical
threat you can defensively display a
firearm but in many states if you have a
firearm out and you haven't already
identified an imminent deadly threat
that can be seen as brandishing or even
as aggravated assault so make sure that
you check your state laws on that and be
very cautious in actually having a
handgun in your hand which might be a
good reason to have your hand on it in
its holster and covered or those things
and and covering hey you guys get the
heck out of here i don't want anything
to do with you okay fine and again it's
okay to protect your property but i want
to talk about this idea of oh he sees
that they've broken in and he's going to
decide at this point that he is going to
shoot at these guys who are running away
from this breaking and entering into a
vehicle couple of problems with that
number one is that you're probably not
good enough with a handgun to do that
and hit anything and that endangers the
community that endangers anybody else
who's out because those bullets got to
come to rest somewhere and that is
really reckless endangerment of people
in the community because you're probably
not good enough to shoot that well
secondly
is that you put yourself at significant
legal risk right with that because you
don't have an imminent threat of death
or great bodily harm and we don't use
deadly force to protect property and i
know somebody's going to say my texas
and all that stuff but recognize that
even in places very unique laws in the
state of texas texas penal code 9.42
about theft during the night time and
those kinds of things but even there i
would suggest even if you can you should
not it is not a should and certainly not
a must and because of that i wouldn't do
it i think it's immoral so instead i i'd
say hey protect your property ordinary
physical force is great protect yourself
do the prudent thing and i don't think
chasing these guys and shooting at them
was wise now that said these guys did a
good job of doing some fun some really
good fundamental things in order to get
those guys to leave they protected their
property but put themselves at pretty
significant safety risk and pretty
significant
legal risk in the course of trying to
cover their asp