Hello guys.
I had a really scary situation yesterday, I'm really glad everything turned ok! Lots of lessons learned, hope you can get something out of it...
12:30 in the night, I was walking my gf home for about 7-8 blocks (for those of you who have visited Peru, it was from the Starbuck's in San Isidro to a couple of blocks past Javier Prado Avenue).Nice quiet "SAFE" area.
We were walking, having a laugh and all the usual stuff. About 2 blocks before you get to the main street, the sidewalks get smaller because there is some nice plants where the sidewalk used to be, so it is 2 people that can just make it tightly on the sidewalk side by side (yes, really short of space). You just can't go right or left (Left is a wall, right is bushes a little higher than my knees).
We were about one and a half block into this sidewalk and we see a Small car (Daewoo Tico) with 4 guys inside going really slowly, one turns his head around and looks at us... i just keep on walking...then they stop at the intersection WHEN THEY HAD A GREEN LIGHT!!! Not another car in the street or the avenue. Right now distance is about 8-9 meters, the 2 back doors open and 2 guys come out of the car, visibly drunk...
" Hola mamacita" (I think it is translated "Yo babe", addressing my gf) and then a really nasty verbal attack on me " Que miras conchatumadre, ah? gringo de mierda, ya te cagaste" (What the f**k are you looking at you sh*t gringo, you are going to get f***ed up!) Pulls a screwdriver (looked like one) and the other one had a pipe (can't really remember what.. looked dark, relatively thin and about half his arm's lenght).
BTW when this dumb HighRoader was in his house, getting ready to go out, he decided to wear this really nice shirt he got from his girlfriend a couple weeks back, and it is kind of tight (in a good sense, I'm fit, no extra fat) so no big guns... my smallest is a Walther P22, so I put it in my pocket (Thin suede holster, not the most comfortable, but gets the job done. Yes, I wear pants with big pockets).
BG's take a step forward, I clear the gun from the pocket (and a lot of cursing out of my mouth) and the guy nearest me (right door of the car) goes running away before I had to shoot... take aim to second attacker, he is now taking "cover" behind th car, just showing his face and a menacing arm.. "Get the f**k out of here NOW!!"you hear me scream.. he keeps cursing and making threaths... guy driving th car yells his friend back in while moving away..he takes a small sprint, and gets in the car.
Now I know I have tons of water in my body! When it was over and we got to the police station to set a record ( gf got plate number.. got to love this girl!) i realized I had sweated through and undershirt and my shirt, "released" some errr...pee....
If i wasn't carrying.. I just don't want to imagine what could have happened.
Now, that P22 felt like a BB gun!!
No shots fired, no one hurt. +1 for the good guys!
I had a really scary situation yesterday, I'm really glad everything turned ok! Lots of lessons learned, hope you can get something out of it...
12:30 in the night, I was walking my gf home for about 7-8 blocks (for those of you who have visited Peru, it was from the Starbuck's in San Isidro to a couple of blocks past Javier Prado Avenue).Nice quiet "SAFE" area.
We were walking, having a laugh and all the usual stuff. About 2 blocks before you get to the main street, the sidewalks get smaller because there is some nice plants where the sidewalk used to be, so it is 2 people that can just make it tightly on the sidewalk side by side (yes, really short of space). You just can't go right or left (Left is a wall, right is bushes a little higher than my knees).
We were about one and a half block into this sidewalk and we see a Small car (Daewoo Tico) with 4 guys inside going really slowly, one turns his head around and looks at us... i just keep on walking...then they stop at the intersection WHEN THEY HAD A GREEN LIGHT!!! Not another car in the street or the avenue. Right now distance is about 8-9 meters, the 2 back doors open and 2 guys come out of the car, visibly drunk...
" Hola mamacita" (I think it is translated "Yo babe", addressing my gf) and then a really nasty verbal attack on me " Que miras conchatumadre, ah? gringo de mierda, ya te cagaste" (What the f**k are you looking at you sh*t gringo, you are going to get f***ed up!) Pulls a screwdriver (looked like one) and the other one had a pipe (can't really remember what.. looked dark, relatively thin and about half his arm's lenght).
BTW when this dumb HighRoader was in his house, getting ready to go out, he decided to wear this really nice shirt he got from his girlfriend a couple weeks back, and it is kind of tight (in a good sense, I'm fit, no extra fat) so no big guns... my smallest is a Walther P22, so I put it in my pocket (Thin suede holster, not the most comfortable, but gets the job done. Yes, I wear pants with big pockets).
BG's take a step forward, I clear the gun from the pocket (and a lot of cursing out of my mouth) and the guy nearest me (right door of the car) goes running away before I had to shoot... take aim to second attacker, he is now taking "cover" behind th car, just showing his face and a menacing arm.. "Get the f**k out of here NOW!!"you hear me scream.. he keeps cursing and making threaths... guy driving th car yells his friend back in while moving away..he takes a small sprint, and gets in the car.
Now I know I have tons of water in my body! When it was over and we got to the police station to set a record ( gf got plate number.. got to love this girl!) i realized I had sweated through and undershirt and my shirt, "released" some errr...pee....
If i wasn't carrying.. I just don't want to imagine what could have happened.
Now, that P22 felt like a BB gun!!
No shots fired, no one hurt. +1 for the good guys!