when you are in your car it is almost
always your best tool for self-defense
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
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john korea today's video comes to us
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the dash cam here on
a big rig is going to show this guy that
comes up the media now watch what he
does here is is they're gonna kind of
get in the middle of the lane and and
then kind of pull over and stop
a little bit here and start blocking
traffic now you know if that was just
somebody
cutting in line in traffic that would be
a jerk move that we would just call them
a jerk for and we would not road rage in
those things
but now watch they're going to stop here
and stop this
this lane of traffic now of course
that's the slow lane here right because
it's driving on the left-hand side but
they're going to get in the way there
and now watch what goes down as they're
going gonna think about getting out for
a minute and the person in the car that
is closest to the big rig is like what
the heck is going on i'm sure
and they're gonna get out there and if
you look closely the guy on the right
has a big knife in his hand
and he is gonna say hey get out of the
car get out of the car look i've got a
knife i want to show it to you make sure
that you get out of the car and the
driver the car is like ah
man i ain't doing it so then actually
what he's going to do is try to carjack
someone else and be unsuccessful with
that
apparently cops did catch these guys a
little while down the road
and everybody was able to get away they
weren't able to carjack anybody
in this case so let's think about big
lessons out of this one i think today's
video does
pose a question and i'm going to ask you
have you taken an evasive driving class
not like a defensive driving how to
you know keep from smacking around other
cars or whatever but an evasive driving
class for a situation like this
frankly i haven't and i really want to a
couple of interesting points about
driving i've sped up the beginning of
this just for the sake of time because
we saw the guy pulling in took a while
whatever
but the first thing that i think our
defender did a really good job of here
is stopping with some distance between
him and this car
especially when somebody's acting weird
i get it in traffic you know if you live
in a congested area
you may not be able to give a bunch of
space to the car in front of you but in
this kind of a situation when someone's
acting
weird giving yourself enough space for
maneuvering is very wise because that
space
buys you options you can go left or
right you can
you know move around here whereas if you
pulled right up to the bumper or that
car
you wouldn't have that space would be
much more dangerous for you so kudos to
this driver
for doing that first of all just as a
preliminary point as well
the reason that his tail lights are
flashing like that is a difference
between the frame rates of the camera
and the pulse rate of the electricity
going through his lights that's all that
is
now now as they get out now you realize
something serious is going on and now
you've got a decision to make you got
somebody who's out in the road
and this is why we always say pay
attention to the hands right so we say
the eyes are the windows to the soul
but the hands are the windows to the
intent so always take a glance at
someone's hands and when you see this
dude
has a knife in his hand they block the
road get out of the car looking at you
knife in hand now's the time to get the
heck out of there there's no reason to
wait
there's no reason to think about what am
i going to do from here it's get out of
there and i wouldn't shoot in this
particular instance i don't think
using a gun in this particular instance
is the right answer because the guy is
so far away
i think sometimes people get this idea
that they're going to use a firearm in
these kinds of instances and it's
probably not
the best because of how unpredictable a
firearm could be
or or a bullet can be at these kinds of
distances going through glass
far better choice here just put the car
in drive and keep on trucking that's
your best bet to stay safe
because and again i think you might even
have a hard time articulating against a
knife-wielding attacker a deadly threat
in this particular instance
now then there's a one more significant
lesson i want to pay attention to
and that is right here as they try to
jerk open his door handles his doors
are locked be cautious sometimes when
you bring your car to a full stop
especially if you put it in park or
something like that
the doors can unlock i can't tell you
enough locked doors will give you more
time and they act as an effective
barrier
against people who want to get in your
car exactly like this so
make sure that you lock your doors and
keep them locked it was an important
part of this guy
getting out of the danger zone and
covering his asp