if you want to get in a gunfight in
houston it seems that withdrawing cash
from the atm is a great way to do it you
aren't wrong
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host as always john korea and joining me
this fine day our ceo stephanie weidner
and we are back in houston texas again
for two lessons today
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are in the mercedes here and they have
followed a woman home from the bank she
withdrew a sum of money from the bank
we're actually gonna hear as they go in
uh what goes on inside the garage
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in this second one a guy has withdrawn a
large sum of cash for his business these
folks in the minivan have followed him
and you're gonna see our perp run up
behind there's our business man with a
sack full of cash and he's just gonna
run up and keep his pimp hands strong
and smack that guy upside the head and
then run off with all his money cops are
still looking for both of them we're
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so i think the big lesson on both of
these steph is that if when you withdraw
money from the bank you better be
careful of what happens directly after
that we say it all the time that
attention buys you time time buys you
option a little prevention is worth a
pound of cure all of these things if you
know you're going to be carrying
something of high risk
take some precautions to keep yourself
and your belongings as safe as you can i
think another thing that we see out of
this video is that in both cases here
right now this purpose is driving a
relatively new mercedes-benz the other
video that we have today was driving a
very nice minivan and whether or not
that's their car which i kind of doubt
or that they steal a nice car in order
to fly under the radar so you know just
looking for janky cars following you
ain't gonna do it today no and i think
both of the in both of these videos we
see that they were in their garage in
this case doing his daily business at
work in the next case they're
comfortable with their surroundings and
their actions and what they're doing and
it's really easy to let your guard down
in those moments and especially when you
have large tons of cash and you just
came from somewhere uh where you got
that you need to keep heads up you need
to keep heads up paying attention
attention buys you time time buys you
options now of course we see this guy
run in and run inside an open garage
door gosh how many times have we said
that your garage when the door is up is
a transitional space so many of us get
very comfortable when we get into our
garage but until you've got that garage
door closed it's open to the public is a
transitional space and is a place where
attack is more likely it's incredibly
predictable that someone's going to get
where they're going and sit in their car
for a few moments and get their things
together and i think they recognize that
we're counting on it and
and took advantage of it so lesson here
get your garage door closed soon as you
get in the garage get that garage door
closed asap i'd also strongly recommend
that you back into your garage if you
can you're either gonna have to back in
or back out and so backing into the
garage lets you see what's coming from
the outside until you get the garage
door closed and is another way that you
can more easily pay attention now i get
it some people like i can't do that in
my garage or it's more difficult and if
you can't you can't but if you can
backing into the garage is very wise now
we don't get to see what happened on the
inside here if you go read the news
story from houston pd
um what the woman said is she started
screaming and hollering and her husband
heard her came down the stairs and this
guy runs off with nothing he ran off
empty-handed but the cops are still
looking for him i guess they weren't
able to get a good plate or it was a
stolen car or something now let's think
about this next one this guy has
withdrawn a large sum of cash and done
so for his business now
i know a lot of people are thinking wait
a minute why would you do that for your
business but you know there could be a
number of reasons that you need a bunch
of cash in your business and that's fine
but if you're going to do that you've
got to pay attention to what's going on
in your world you've got a lot of cash
on you so that means not just using your
eyes but using your ears the car just
drove past him that she should have been
paying attention to that and then
stopped and now we have this guy running
up behind him that's not going to be
silent and our guy's not paying any
attention to what is going on in his
world at all so just simply being
curious of your world remember when we
say pay attention we're not talking
about being paranoid we're not talking
about thinking everybody's out to get
you we're talking about being curious of
your environment see what's going on
around you particularly again when you
have high value items you've just left
the bank with a lot of cash there's a
likelihood here and what we see in
houston we're seeing all over the
country with people following folks out
of the bank and stealing their money so
you've got to be curious of your world
and because if not you're going to get
the pimp hand
and you see him just running down the
street at all there's no reason for him
to be surprised here he takes his first
hit it knocks his glasses off um he and
he's completely surprised by this yeah
and again so you might have to defend
yourself without your glasses on if you
wear corrective lenses they may not get
knocked off your head as the opening
salvo now i don't think this should have
been the opening salvo this guy should
should definitely have been paying
better attention because again this guy
hit him with a closed fist is what the
the link from houston pd says that that
he you know just comes up behind whacks
him in the head steals his bag well if
he had been paying attention to his
world this would not have happened right
so so he would have definitely had more
opportunity now of course he'd have to
have more than just attention you'd have
to have some skills some plan and a
great attitude in order to protect
yourself because if this guy wanted it
he could have strong-armed him or
whatever but certainly allowing yourself
to be run up from behind and smacked
upside the head in your bag stolen this
is just easy money for a perp yeah you
don't want your first signal that you're
in in a fight and under threat to be hit
like this so your glasses flying off
your head yeah smacked upside the head
not the way to do it right now one final
thing i will say is this guy's running
off i totally get it that our victim
wants his stuff back and as this guy's
running in you're gonna see again our
victim is going to run up and try to
stop him i really think that's not a
great idea i think that the reason that
it's not a great idea is that you don't
know what else is in that car you don't
have a gun on you you don't have
anything else that if he decides in that
moment oh i want to fight this guy or
his partner inside's got a gun or
something like that at that point the
unfortunate truth is it's the smarter
and wiser thing to let it go yeah he's
running up on them at great speed and i
get it he was just hit he's frustrated
he's upset he just lost a bunch of money
but he could have lost so much more here
that that van is about to back up at
high speed as he's running directly at
the back of it they've already shown
blatant disregard for him and his life
and he's just putting himself at much
greater risk here yeah so while i get it
you really have to make those decisions
ahead of time that you're not going to
fall prey to that predator mentality and
and and chase down people that have
wronged you in order to to retrieve your
things or to punish them uh it could
have lost so much more here and i get it
friends people are going to say well
wait a minute john you know it's it's
somebody's got to stand up to these
thugs and i totally get it i get that
you'd be angry about losing that a bunch
of money that that makes all perfect
sense to me we're talking about being
wise here we're talking about being
prudent here we're talking about making
sure that we don't endanger our life for
money here because we can always make
more money but we can't gain our life
back if we lose it so make sure that
we're doing the right things here let's
pay attention to our world let's be real
careful when we withdraw large amounts
of cash let's make sure that we're
watching those transitional spaces that
we're curious about our world and paying
attention and taking appropriate steps
to cover our asp