From: mike wilson
On 11/06/2011 03:57, Doug Franklin wranted:
> On 2011-06-10 14:21, frank theriault wrote:
>
>>> I'd be interested in knowing what safety strategies you employ when
>>> working
>>> in urban environments.
>
> I've gotta say that I'm flabbergasted by some of the replies to this
> thread. The number one rule to surviving a fight is to avoid the damned
> thing in the first place. I defy /anyone/, Bruce Lee included, to use
> their man portable weaponry to hold off a flash mob of maybe several
> hundred people. One well armed and psychologically prepared defender
> against a couple of handful of thugs, you've got a chance. A few hundred
> of them, "you're f****ing vegemite, mate" in the words of one of my
> Aussie friends.
>
> If that sort thing is in the offing, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! What the Hell
> are you people, combat photogs with death wishes? If the problem is
> nearly as bad as portrayed by some of those articles, I'm bloody well
> staying at home, or moving to a different city. I'm probably trying to
> contract having Jersey Barriers installed at the ground-floor entry
> points. Even if it's not 24/7, my luck is that I'd show up just in time
> to be a victim if I lived near that s***.
>
> It doesn't take a huge amount of "tactical acuity" to realize that
> you're f***ing hosed in a one-versus-a-hundred fight, the TV shows and
> movies notwithstanding. You're only chance is that you've lucked into a
> "kill or maim one and the rest chicken out" scenario, or you can get
> them fighting each other while you "take a powder" somewhere else.
>
> I don't wander into certain parts of Atlanta for /exactly/ the same
> reasons I wouldn't wander into certain parts of Fallujah.
>
Jersey Barriers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier
Hesco barriers would probably work better. They're stackable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
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