08-06-2012, 04:50 PM
(08-06-2012, 03:04 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote:(08-06-2012, 03:00 PM)Donovan Wrote: That was Vegas, BTW, as long as we're crossreferencing threads.
Was that the courthouse shooting from Jan 2010 by any chance?
No but I knew where that happened. My situation was single shooter, I walked out a self-locking door into a situation where a female security guard at the rear of the casino was being overpowered by her much bigger, apparently drunk boyfriend. I tried to intervene but before I could get close to them he came up with her gun and tried to shoot me. I had only one way out and that was thru the casino doors about ten feet away, but essentially I was screwed and knew it. If she hadn't yanked his arm down he'd have got me. Instead he killed the trash can next to me.
The fucked up thing? I worked in that casino in the restaurant, knew them both, and had served them dinner about an hour before. I understand he dropped the gun as soon as he fired at me but I sure as fuck didn't wait to find out, I was headed for backup. With guns. It was purely a wrong place, wrong time kinda thing that escalated into ugly before anyone could think it through. Wouldn't have made me any less dead, but I wasn't even really mad at the guy. Felt bad when he got kicked out of the country. He was a Columbian or Peruvian Indian, big fucker.
The other time wasn't nearly so exciting, it was an attempted robbery in a park in Portland and the guy did one of those movie-style "gun in the ribs" things. I grabbed his wrist and hit him really hard in the face and he took a little nap. Never even had a chance to think about that being a threat it just was instinctive. Don't remember what the guy looked like, scruffy little white kid tweaker, but I kept his gun hahaha. POS .25, used to jam up all the damn time.
Come to think of it, my near misses have all been much more exciting than the actual times people tried to shoot me. Hmmm. Must be the buildup to the moment.