“Jim Goad should read Jim LaFond”
-An email from Dominick that came with this link
This article is about a form of parasitic aggression that only afflicts people who seem safe and tolerant.
If you find that a man has attacked himself to you and will not leave your side, then do the following:
1. Quickly turn and step past or at a right angle from the aggressor.
2. If you do not think this is aggression, then just get on your knees and blow him.
3. Turn, prepared to act
4. If he advances on you poke him in the eyes
5. Step off quickly three steps
6. If he closes with you slap him in the jaw
7. If he presses the encounter into full blown combat, deck him
Having this police helicopter circling my house at sundown every Sunday is getting irritating. Sometimes I find myself wishing I had a 50 caliber roof mount, just like Virgil on McHale’s Navy…
I read Jim Goad religiously and this article caught my eye. My take on Jim is that he's no pushover but needs to be cautious due to his status as a prior felon.
I've survived two outright muggings by pure dumb luck but back in the 90's I experienced something akin to what occurred to Jim.
In Phoenix there was restaurant called Papillions where the dining area was a large open space with picnic tables and seat yourselves after you got your food at the service counter. Complying with state law I'd left my pistol locked in the storage bag of my bike along with some pepper spray. While we were eating a large and somewhat drunk black guy seated himself at out table and started a slurred monologue about when he used to play baseball. We (girl friend and I) declined to converse and he eventually got up and left. After our meal while crossing the parking lot the guy slipped out of the shadow of some shrubbery and started our way. We had a little race against the clock while I foundthe key, got the bag open, acquired the pistol bag( a Safepacker from The Wilderness shop) got the pepper out and down behind my thigh and got the bike between him and us. At that point he starts on a bizzare spiel about how we should " help him out" and making reference to having sat at a meal table and "talked like family and all that". My recent tactical training had stressed doing only what one must and not what one can. So I held fast, didn't display my weapons and refused to engage him. At some point it got through to him that 1. I wasn't biting 2. I wasn't afraid and 3. I wasn't acting like any of his other marks. I also saw his eyes drop to where my hand was out of sight. He eventually moved off and eyeballed us from across the lot. I got the Harley fired up and we motored off keeping an eye on him all the while. Happy to have avoided the aftermath of a lawful use of force.
K-
Thanks for this excellent account.
The hand read is something that martial arts people don't teach much, but most common crooks seem fluent with. The fact that he was able to tell that you meant business based on your hand placement, even drunk, is one reason why a criminal man is easier to deal with non violently than a youth, who often fail to pick up on preparedness cues from their target. On a few occasions I have only been saved from having to answer to the law over handling one of their children roughly by more aware friends of threatening hoodrats calling them off after seeing that my hand was unseen and I wasn't budging.
Keep it up, Kman.
Kman- Way to stay heads up and show proper deterrent behavior. I understand the state law thing but I would have carried. My wife used to carry at her college when she was 6-9 months pregnant because she had night classes and I had to watch the other kids.
James- my wife about a year and a half ago almost had something similar happen. She was walking back from an event in the city and some female hood rat asked her what time it was from her stoop. My wife not thinking anything of it pulled out her old flip home and before she couldn't even answer the women turned away no longer interested.
We have since had many discussions regarding urban defensive procedures seeing as how if she had her current phone with her she would have got mugged and potentially had to shoot someone.
In this society, we have to partner with our women like alpha male wolves do with the alpha female, just as you described. When you aren't around, she's it. Breaking up the extended family was the masterstroke of the State planning. It sounds like your doing all that can be done to counter it.
Thanks for the account.
When the author cut his balls off and laid them before the two women he hoped would save him, I had a thought that this article should have been directed at women but didn't do anything about it.