Post by Angel One on Feb 15, 2004 15:40:10 GMT
Ive said it before, but I have -never- in my life meant it more than I do now. I wish to GOD we had a second amendment here...
A few days ago, in broad daylight, I decide to go for a walk. Im fairly new to the city since I dont live here full-time, I just go to college here. So I go for a walk in this forest place, and get myself kinda lost (What, it was big forest! lol)
It starts to get kinda dark, and I forgot my phone, so I decide to just head for the nearest source of light, which turns out to be this residental area. I go in, and it looks like something out of a movie! Anyone ever see that kurt russel one, escape from LA? Like that! Burned out cars, rubble, fires burning, looked like a war zone.
I have a fairly good sense of direction, so I head for the main road. Then this car appears, and im immediatly nervous. Why? Who else would be driving that fast down to a pretty much abandoned space containing nothing but rubble and building waste? I turn around and walk back the way I came, not running, just walking briskly.
They drive past me, over a wooden plank lying on the ground, and go on up the road. I get really nervous then, because there must be a good reason for them to risk damaging their car by driving it over something like that. The reason of course was me. They immediatly reverse, and pull up right beside me, and Ill never forget the looks on their faces. The driver and the passenger, (I think there was just the two of them) lean right over and stare out, and I dont know why, but I just *knew* I was in serious trouble. Ever movie I had seen, every cop show, every item on the news just told me to run. And I turned and ran back into the forest.
I swear, I remember just one thing, just one thought: "I'm going to be a statistic"
I could just see myself as a headline: "Student killed in vicious assault. In other news, the minister for finance today announced......" I just remember thinking that all the warnings, all the news reports ive read on this site, all the experience I read here, it seems so far away until it happens to you....
Now I did get away, I ran into the forest, and the lazy SOBs didnt follow me far, if at all.They just shouted "get out of here you bas****d" I eventually found some all-night delivery service of some kind and asked the security guy for the use of his phone. but man... I would have sold every thing I own for a loaded gun back there...
Im kinda nervous now, I mean I dont live far from the housing estate... I dont know if they recognised me...
Has anyone who has had an experience like this ever had people come looking for them? Im not too worried, since the chances are theyll just forget the whole thing, but im sitting here browsing www.hardtarget.com *seriously* considering buying the BEST level 3A vest I can get...
Well thats my experience... Man I really need to look into some kind of personal defence weapon... Maybe some kind of martial art too... I just dont know if id remember the moves you know? If id just panic... At least with a gun you just draw and fire, no way I would have missed at that range, they could have reached out and grabbed me if Id have hesitated...
It was my suspicion that saved my life tho definatly. Id say anyone else would have been less nervous, and maybe hung around for a few more seconds...
lol