today we get two more examples of a
disturbing new trend in robberies
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self-protection I'm your
host John Korea like I say we have two
videos today this is a new trend that
we're starting to see more and more of
not just in Houston which is where our
two videos are from but all over the
nation
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on this first one a man has gone to the
bank and withdrawn a large sum of cash
and then he's taking it to his credit
union this guy that we're seeing on
camera has followed him there and just
Yanks it right out of his back pocket
and runs off and gets away with it in
this second one you see the car pulling
up here and what has happened is they
have followed this man from a bank and
you can't see me he's off camera but
they followed a guy home from the bank
as well and this guy's going to kind of
park down the block a little bit and
then you're going to see him here kind
of come from a different angle now our
homeowner is kind of behind the tree on
the right hand side here so this guy's
gonna run up grab a package that I don't
think was any money it doesn't look like
it was any of the money that he had just
been to the bank but he hadn't withdrawn
a large amount but the guy thought he
did and so I think he maybe stole his
Amazon package or something like that
and then jumps back in the car and he
runs off as well and I think there are
some significant lessons we're going to
get out of these neither of them have
been caught I gotta say in an age of
cash app and Zell and venmo and PayPal
and all those things I don't understand
why people do this how about you does
this make sense to you big lesson I
really want us all to think about out of
this as we get started is there's really
not a lot of Reason in a modern context
that you'd want to withdraw a whole
bunch of cash and then just take it to a
different bank I mean I I get it you
might want to have some cash in the
house and order you know in case we had
a grid down situation or whatever you
just like using cash you want to have
some for kind of you know your own use
okay fine but if you're going to
transfer money from a bank to a credit
union just use a cash transfer a wire
transfer something like that have them
transfer it to a different place in a
different bank or you know use an online
transfer it just completely ameliorates
this problem 100 certainly you've got a
bunch of cash on you've got to pay
attention to your world and certainly
there is absolutely no reason to leave a
a wad of cash in an envelope in your
back pocket that is completely just
egregiously crazy I don't know why you
would do that because again even if you
have to put it in your front pocket or
just hold it in your hands or something
like that where where it's forward where
you can see it but in your back pocket
you're basically inviting somebody that
says hey you can do this before I can
see it now of course you want to pay
attention to your surroundings and if
you see somebody following You from One
Bank another place you should be paying
attention to that yes you should be
armed but bigger thing here is put
things in spaces that it's much more
difficult for them to be gotten and
you'd have much less opportunity for
this now this other guy goes to the bank
okay fine somebody follows him home from
the bank I really do think paying
attention in your surroundings
incredibly important here you see
somebody you know parks in your
neighborhood that maybe you haven't seen
much and you're out front you see him
then jogging up on you you can respond
to that rather than just kind of
hee-ho-hum like this guy did and just
end up getting this you know Amazon
delivery or whatever it is snatched
again the only reason I think that I'm
not saying that it was the money is
because if you go read the news story
that I've Linked In the description it
doesn't say anything about that he took
a large deposit from the guy or
something like that so simply paying
attention in your world might well have
solved this problem certainly when
you're around the home you might want to
be thinking about having tools on your
person as well whether that's just an OC
spray in your pocket or some people
carry a pocket gun or even having your
firearm on you I think that's another
issue as well because otherwise you know
again you're not paying attention and
this guy ends up grabbing your stuff so
Bank trips they're starting to become
problematic people following you home
from the bank pay attention to your
mirrors see what's going on around you
in your world pay attention don't put
your money somewhere where somebody can
grab it from you and if best possible
don't carry large amounts of cash
because it sets you up for stuff like
this