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Nuevo Laredo is right across the Rio
Grande from Laredo Texas and I'm almost
positive here that this is an American
who's just come across the border and
it's about to get real
stop it's the cartel
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see that
from comments in the description on the
raw which I have linked in the
description you can see that this guy is
now headed back towards the border
crossing and back on his way to Laredo
and that's where this one ends scary
stuff lots of lessons to come out of
this one have a question for you what's
your favorite a saying I know I keep
them kind of a bunch of them around that
we say again and again to help us
remember which one's your favorite I
know that people are gonna ask on the
get-go on this one why would you go into
Mexico with your car from Laredo Texas
and the honest reason is there's a host
of reasons that you could many people
who live on border towns like this that
cross the border multiple times they got
business reasons to go back and forth
sometimes family living on both sides
and those kinds of things so these kinds
of crossings do happen especially early
in the morning six o'clock like this
this could be for work
now we see what's coming here this looks
like in a typical you know street light
here coming because you see people
coming out of the way and a bunch of
people that are outside of the cars now
I know two people in suburban America
this is going to look like way
something's crazy right now but you know
if you have never driven in Mexico you
know or driven in other parts of the
world sometimes you know you get across
the border and and the culture shifts
very very much now of course right
across the border across the Rio Grande
in Texas you know that there's an awful
lot of drug cartels that are down there
so when they recognize what's going on
here you better be able to react in a
hurry and know your culture now he
thought he was just gonna pull through
but of course now he's got a truck
blocking the way so you gotta be able to
think on your feet the number one thing
is a self defender that you have to be
able to do is to continue to think to
not get into that vapor lock but to
continue to do that Colonel Boyd ood a
loop where you are observing and
orienting deciding what to do and acting
on it and keep that loop moving and
moving quickly it's the quickest
decision-maker who is actually thinking
who usually wins these defensive
encounters so he sees I can't go forward
now he might have been able to squeeze
in on the right there but decide to nope
I'm gonna go back and taking some kind
of an evasive driving class I think is a
good thing for most people because using
your car is so important notice he's got
a weave a little bit and that leaves the
first guy out and gets him the heck out
of there now I do want to say this
notice as he stops that guy who is in
the white you know
sweatshirt is probably his first and
biggest problem and going forward he
knows he has other cars there so it
might have been wiser for him in this
instance to jump the curb to the left
because it looks like he's in a pickup
truck where he has some ground clearance
and if you have ground clearance
recognize that curbs are merely a
suggestion and you can use that ground
clearance and that horsepower to your
advantage not saying to run the guy over
I'm saying to get over on the other side
and get away from these cars now he
doesn't do that okay fine I get it but
now that blue car you know this blue
little SUV is gonna get up in his way as
well now he's gonna take evasive
maneuvers get around and away from this
guy and I think that's great of course
the thing that we haven't seen here is
the fact that these guys are not you
know at least not shooting at them and
that's a very good thing remember your
safety lies in your speed with your
vehicles so you gotta be ready here and
and again I know somebody's gonna ask
him wait a minute why isn't this guy
armed himself or whatever we see that
guy get out of the way okay fine and now
is our good guys gonna get the heck out
of the way and go you'd ask the question
well wait a minute you know he's in
Texas why wouldn't he be armed himself
or something like that I'm telling you
man you got to recognize I've been to
Mexico many times and if you cross the
border into Mexico and you get caught
with a gun you're gonna do a lot of
years in federal prison in Mexico and
there is no bill of rights there and
nothing to protect you
so most people I think won't carry their
firearms down there even through this
kind of stuff and again I am the weapon
everything else is just a tool and I
think our defender here used his vehicle
well so keep your wits about you keep
thinking evasive driving as your friend
use that ground clearance and that
horsepower that you have to get the heck
out of the danger zone and cover your
ass