you don't get to pick the day that you
are chosen that you need to defend
yourself
hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host as always john korea today's video
comes to us from you guessed it houston
texas and the defender in today's video
was this week's ask podcast guest i have
put a link in the description so you can
hear what happened from his mouth 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 our defender here is uh in a
kroger you see these two guys that are
walking around looking for somebody to
victimize looking for somebody to
carjack and now what you're gonna see
from the right side is our defender who
again uh apparently he's an ass fan go
listen to the podcast episode with him
on it that posted this last friday and
he has recently bought an oc spray
because of some of what he's watched on
the channel and now as he's walking to
his car watch what goes down this guy's
gonna approach him and want his stuff
and he's gonna be like nah man leave me
alone but the guy's gonna approach him
from the back and try to get after him
but our defender did get his oc spray
out and got to spray on this first guy
who that took the starch right out of
his jammies and that dude does not want
anything else to do with him he
certainly does not want another dose
even though our defender went and gave
him some more of the hot sauce now our
defender's gonna be like yo man that's
great he drove those guys off now
however he had his keys in his hand and
he dropped them in the other accomplice
grabbed those keys up so now our two
dudes one of whom is crying from the oc
spray are gonna jump in his car because
they have his keys he's gonna come
running back and try to get his car back
from them but they got it started they
got the doors you know closed on it and
drove off with his car he wasn't hurt
one bit he did lose his car let's think
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so i mean paying attention in these
kinds of transitional spaces especially
when you're seeing people do things that
you don't expect people to do but you
just come and go to their vehicle is an
important skill because you see our guy
he's got you know he's got some
groceries whatever just walk into his
car now it is nighttime okay you are in
a parking lot so recognize that you do
need to pay attention to your world and
one of the biggest things i would say is
looking up and around and asking the
question is everyone doing what i expect
them to do is everything normal here is
are people coming and going to their
vehicles putting groceries in their car
whatever when you see people lurking
skulking paying attention to you like
they should not be when you're just a
random stranger walking to your car
important pre-attack indicators that you
can maybe then go back in the store ask
for some help you know maybe even call
cops if there's nobody there see if
they'll come and help you get to your
car or whatever if you see these guys
kind of lurking don't think that he
really saw that here so he's just kind
of bebop into his car while this guy is
kind of closing on him now at this point
he definitely notices him had he seen
him a little earlier one of my my real
recommendations is if you can to keep
your car between you and the threat
between you and an unknown contact if
you can maintain distance and maintain a
barrier and your car could be a good
barrier saying hey man i don't got
anything for you hey stay over there
that's close enough and you know do that
kind of craig douglas managing unknown
contacts at shivwork collective that's
where you get that kind of information
from gives you some more options some
more time i also think in those cases
pre-staging your oc spray into your
hands not threatening with it but
pre-staging it into your hand very
important now of course i don't think he
saw the second accomplice here the
trailing accomplice is a big deal and i
don't know that he saw him every time
you add an attacker you increase the
difficulty literally by an order of
magnitude very difficult here with
multiples if you don't see him ahead of
time because a guy just crashed him and
at this point now you're in the fight no
matter what i personally think usually
at this point now is the time for
empty-handed skills now's the time you
got to fight these guys off you might
even make the case that there's multiple
attackers so the disparity of numbers
here and if they're younger bigger
stronger you've got disparity of size as
well that would justify the use of
deadly force but certainly ordinary
force at this point no problem and so
getting the space like our defender did
here he was able to get a little space
and get some oc spray on these guys and
oc spray can be very effective in a
physical conflict if you can get the
space in order to get a good dose now if
you can't get space whatever and you can
get it right up his nostril or in his
mouth or whatever that's great i
wouldn't put it directly in the eyeballs
that could actually cause some serious
injury and then that's not ordinary
force but notice it took the starts
right out of his jammies it took the
fight right out of the guy and that's
what a good dose of oc spray will do and
that's why i recommend you carry one
because it got this guy out of the fight
now i wouldn't recommend continuing to
chase him and put more dosage doses on
him he doesn't need that one dose is
sufficient it will continue to get worse
over the next several minutes so get
yourself out of the danger zone and
that's exactly what our defender did
here is he started running off now of
course the problem is he's dropped his
keys
in newer cars thankfully that have the
bluetooth key fobs whatever you never
have to get the key out of your pocket
you just leave it in your pocket in your
purse whatever get in your car do your
thing and you never have to worry about
that but even with that happening listen
get out of the danger zone is the right
answer here and and i get it he has
every right to stop these guys from
stealing his car every right certainly
to use force to stop these guys from
stealing his car but it is two on one
what's the chances he's going to be able
to do that successfully very very slim
and even if he had earlier justification
to use deadly force at some point that's
going to evaporate and drawing a gun on
a guy who's trying to steal your car
could get you in trouble because it's
just a vehicle now we're talking about a
property crime yes it's usually a felony
because it's probably still considered a
carjacking but again you get into
signing kind of some gray areas here
instead i would just recommend run away
hopefully your car is insured you get it
back another day or get a new one to
replace it i think our defender did a
darn good job here of using oc spray
appropriately getting that guy off of
him and getting out of the danger zone i
think we could all use a little bit more
of paying attention in our space maybe
just maybe having a vehicle if we can
that we don't have to have keys in our
hands as we seek to cover our ass