this one goes wrong in so many ways i
i'm not sure where to start but success
is a great deodorant
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection it's
saturday and that means with me your
host john correa is our ceo at active
self protection stephanie widener and i
know sometimes almost every video people
are like oh john's wife that's cute
notice our last names are different
we're married just not to each other
comes to us from atlanta georgia
palm pepper spray has recently
reformulated for even more effect when
you bless the deserving with the hot
sauce palm is what i use between a harsh
word and a gun and encourage everyone to
do likewise
it is quite late at night and this lady
has stopped at a gas station in atlanta
in her very nice suv and uh if you go
read the description on the original
which was posted to her youtube account
you can hear that she has a very nice
purse and a very nice phone and she's
just gonna sit here in this parking lot
she's actually gonna get out of the
driver's seat and go to the back door oh
darn my doors are locked and so she is
gonna go unlock the door and then open
the back door i'm not sure what she was
getting into in the back seat of her car
but if you've watched the channel for a
while you can feel the time ticking and
eventually this dude's gonna go hey
that's a really nice suv i want that suv
and come literally running up a jump in
the driver's seat
and as after billy ray jumps in the the
driver's seat jim bob his accomplice
jumps in the passenger seat and she's
like yo now they get the car and drive
for a minute but then apparently it
won't work anymore and so they try to
get it in reverse but the vehicle will
not go into reverse i am guessing that's
because she had the key fob on her
person and when it doesn't see it it
won't go into reverse so they're revving
the engine trying to get it to go and it
won't go she went and banged on the door
of the convenience store that had a
security guard in there
and she gets his attention and our
security guard comes up points a gun and
billy ray and jim bob decide no that was
a mistake and they immediately regret
their life decisions and run off to
bible study in order to get their life
back the security guard then uh points
the gun at himself about 14 times
putting it away and that's all right but
the
victim loses nothing they did not take a
darn thing from her other than her
dignity uh we have to think about some
significant lessons after this one
though i don't get it stephanie i mean
gracious depending on running in and
knocking on the door and getting a
security guard
i'm not happy with this yeah there's a
lot going on with this one
it's like all the rules of stupid are
broken at once here we go stupid places
at stupid times and do stupid things
there's no other stupid people around so
okay fine but but
stephanie what would possess somebody to
spend this long in a transitional space
in a convenience store parking lot i
can't figure it out i've watched it so
many times it's so long with these doors
open i don't understand what's happening
on the good side i mean she did start
futzing around in the car when no one
was around the problem is that she did
it for so long that there's a lot of
people around fairly quickly yeah bad
place to try this out here right get in
the car lock the doors get out away from
the convenience store because again this
is a transitional space and this guy
comes running off from i mean it looks
like he was doing 100-yard dash and
doing a jesse owens impression i don't
understand again i'm struggling to
understand how she didn't hear or or
figure out that people were coming from
everywhere to steal her car right now
people are running at full speed to take
this car and we're still just kind of
moving in slow motion it's kind of an
odd situation when you don't pay
attention particularly in transitional
space particularly when you're violating
the rules of stupid your chances of
being victimized are ridiculously high
and i think this lady again driving a
nice car she said she had a louis
vuitton purse and all these things so in
a lot of cases when you're wealthy you
can isolate yourself from crime but when
you show up in a regular part of town
you don't get that protection anymore
and an awful lot of times we find that
we we do have to do things that cause us
to have to break the rules of stupid
sometimes you have to be in a stupid
place or you have to go there at a
stupid time but the more that you stack
those on top of each other the more you
just put yourself at higher and higher
risk make extricating yourself from that
much more difficult and we can see that
that she's just stacking rules of stupid
violations up on top of each other no
she sees these guys doing this this is a
violent carjacking here okay and and
this is atlanta this is georgia people
have a right to carry firearms here and
so i rather than than depending upon the
largesse of a security guard i would
strongly have preferred this woman have
her own firearm that she had it on her
person certainly not in her purse which
was in the front console with her right
there and and had she had a firearm i
think she would have been entirely
justified at least to draw it and point
it in this case to get these guys out of
her car certainly for nothing else to
help kind of defend her escape here you
know they didn't immediately start
messing with this car and don't look
like they're paying a ton of attention
to her so i think it's pretty smart for
her to at least get away from this and
just sacrifice the car at the altar of
the broken rules of stupid and and
continue on now she did go and find help
and we see the security guard come out
and he's not messing around like he like
he comes out yeah that's true but again
notice how long it takes for that to
happen of course if she had another
family member in the car this would be a
totally different thing but it's just
her so i don't see a problem with her
here going okay wait a minute i'm going
to get away from these guys now they get
the car to move forward a little bit
that was dangerous to her for a moment
but then she's going to run off and and
go get someone else's help and notice
how long that takes and these guys
should have been able to get out of
there with that car my guess is it's
something with the security features on
the vehicle if she had the key fob or
something like that because this is
taking tick tick tick tick tick tick 10
15 20 seconds and and the guard coming
in here it takes forever so that really
can't be a self-defense strategy now
when he does he comes with his firearm
presented and pointed stephanie what do
you think of that tactic well these guys
kind of they started this with a
carjacking although he didn't actually
witness that and is going off of her in
a word for it at least to the best of
our knowledge so i don't think it's
wrong that he has the gun out out here
it you know again atlanta in the middle
of the night in a in a convenience store
parking lot i think i would prefer
having it drawn but diverted and not
actually pointed at anyone so that god
forbid i didn't fire on accident because
my finger was on the trigger and no one
was presenting a deadly threat or a trip
or any number of things and regardless
at this point if he's not found
justified he's you know this is
aggravated assault so it's whether or
not you're justified in doing that and i
think he is but again i would really
prefer my gun was not pointed at someone
right here and i think a low ready
position is a smarter position here a
muzzle averted position because it lets
you see better and let's just see what's
going on on the inside so not a problem
i don't you know you stop at a violent
felony here a carjacking is a violent
felony this was a carjacking
and so i don't have any problems with
that i do like that he did not shoot i
like that he used the firearm and
presented it and then did not shoot now
it kind of looks to me like he points a
gun at himself a little bit putting it
away okay fine and she gets her car back
she gets no you know no negative
consequences here now they're never
going to catch those those idiot
teenagers who tried to steal her car
but i think that we all get a good
lesson here about the stupidity of
hanging out in a transitional space and
i gotta tell you if i'm the security
guard that's hired here to defend this
convenience store and the people inside
of that i am not i'm probably not going
to come out for a woman that is safely
inside while she says her car is being
driven off i might see that as her
problem and not jump out and introduce
myself and a firearm into this situation
now i don't know if that's right wrong
or indifferent and it's not my job and
not my call but i do think on some level
that luck played a pretty high part that
she was able to get someone to intervene
yeah i agree let's make good decisions
and do better than this and even though
success is a wonderful deodorant lots of
mistakes here for us to do better then
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