You can find some really good examples on YouTube with the search string “robbery fails.” Things like a thug with a hoodie and a pistol jacking up a store clerk at touching distance, and the clerk beats the attacker off with a bag of potato chips, climbs the counter, and chases the thug out the door. Another time it’s an elderly cleaning lady with a mop, and so forth.

When the script fails, it fails hard. Of course if they were more ept they probably wouldn’t be committing a felony at a convenience store for $50 or less in a time-lock register…

Get inside the attacker’s OODA loop.

The use of humor isn’t required, but it does help throw attackers off their stride. Also, acting crazy scares the hell out of them, because once you add that factor in to screwing up the script, they will sense a far greater risk than may actually exist.

People leave crazy alone, once they identify it. Hell, even wild animals know better–Friend of mine tells the story of being stalked by a mountain lion up in the mountains of Idaho, and how he took some toothpaste and created an image of “frothing at the mouth” nuttiness by a stream edge. Lion’s been following him for most of an afternoon, and once he did that “rabid human” act, rolling around on the ground and making weird noises, it took the hell off.

Worst thing you can do in an attack is meet expectations and behave the way your attacker has scripted. That chick with the knife I mentioned yesterday is seen in the video apparently reacting to a demand for money by digging through her shoulder-carried huge-ass purse, and then she produces this huge knife and casually slices, dices, and stabs the guy as if she were demonstrating knife-work on a cooking show. Purse never left her shoulder, and she’s going through the drill with that knife like she did it every day. Whoever the hell she was, she had some time training to use that thing.

They later used DNA to connect the subject of her attentions to a series of rapes and a couple of killings, or so the story went. I think the case is still open, or it still was about 2003 or so.

Don’t do what they expect.

http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171053.

YMMV