Urban Survival

situational awareness is like having eyes in the back of your head (but less creepy looking)

Whenever the topic of mindset is brought up, people always want to chime in about how awareness is everything.  The comment kinda comes off sounding like a guy looking at a car and asking “what’s under the hood”  or picking up a knife at a show and asking “what steel is it made out of” when the information is on the blade.  Everyone wants to have something to add to the conversation, whether it is useful or not.

Awareness is even more useful when you have some things to look for.  The other day, I was walking with my son, who was selling popcorn for Cub Scouts.  We were in front of a house knocking on the front door when I hear a vehicle start up out back.

As we moved around to the front, a middle aged woman in an SUV drove by the sidewalk.  She was digging for something on the passenger seat and drove right by us.  Never saw us standing on her sidewalk, only feet from her in her front yard.  All of us have been caught sleeping, right?

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Yo quiero to wake my master so he can shoot your ass!

Have you ever thought you needed a giant dog as a personal protection weapon? Big dogs have their place and I have lived with big dogs since about 1988. At one time I had a herd of Rhodesian Ridgebacks and nobody came around, ever.

First, decide what it is that you really need the dog to do for you; Do you want a protection dog? Is the dog supposed to kill attacking ninjas while you hide under the bed? A dog that can do that takes a very, very confident master. A smart dog is roughly equivalent to a five year old human. You’ll have a kid that can destroy anything, including you, unless you are big-time assertive.

No, I do not mean like that Dog Whisperer guy, but you will need to be assertive all the time. You will have to be the number one ruler of your empire all the time with the nuts to back it up. If the dog is smarter than you, then you will be way fucked.

For many people (me included right now), I think a dog needs to be an advanced warning system, not a terminator. I know that a tiny dog barking isn’t going to scare a zombie, but really neither is one big dog barking.

Six big dogs and you have a force to run off assholes. With one, it’s debatable.

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Jersey Shore season 1 DVD – Great for seeing how far society has fallen or shanking fools

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As someone who is constantly passing through countries for work and play where you can’t own weapons – figuring out how to make a lethal weapon MacGyver style is a must-have skill (especially in countries where anti-American attitudes or street crime is a threat).

Also – knowing a few improvised weapon tricks isn’t just something that is handy for when I am traveling internationally. When I am back in the U.S. hanging out with my buddies in “anti-firearm/knife/pepper-spray/harsh language” Washington D.C. I keep a few common objects on me that I can use as a ditch weapon.

But out of all the different types of improvised weapons the DVD or CD is my favorite Every Day Carry in restrictive 1st World places like D.C. – all you have to do is snap it in half and wrap a handkerchief or piece of paper around it and you have one nasty knife that will slice and dice better than a Ginsu.

Another advantage the broken DVD has is it’s easy to explain if a cop or someone asked me: “Why do you have a broken DVD in your pocket wrapped-up in a handkerchief?” My answer would be: “I accidentally broke it, so I wrapped it in a handkerchief so it wouldn’t get any more scratched up on the way home – hopefully I can ship it to one of those data recovery companies in the back of PC magazine”

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This is the third in a series of four articles on travel safety, covering driving, hotel safety, identity theft, and property theft.

SA (Situational Awareness)
Situational Awareness is vital in every time and place. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security that things are safe just because you’re on vacation. There are MANY dirtbags out there that take advantage of travelers, knowing that they are unfamiliar with their surroundings, and not concentrating on the day to day business of staying safe. Your primary responsibility in life is the safety of your loved ones.

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This is the second in a series of four articles on travel safety, covering driving, hotel safety, identity theft, and property theft.

SA (Situational Awareness)

Situational Awareness is vital in every time and place. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security that things are safe just because you’re on vacation. There are MANY dirtbags out there that take advantage of travelers, knowing that they are unfamiliar with their surroundings, and not concentrating on the day to day business of staying safe. Your primary responsibility in life is the safety of your loved ones.

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This is your family 20 months after you use deadly force to defend them

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So you are sitting in your basement playing Gears of War on Xbox live, your wife and kids are upstairs sleeping, it’s about 3:30 AM (your wife is one of the cool types who doesn’t complain about her husband’s gaming habit). Right in the middle of playing wave 20 on horde you hear glass breaking and your back door opening.

You go right into warrior mode; you grab your kit (body armor, rig, ect.) and your AR-15 and slowly start waking upstairs. You open the basement door, you click your surefire on and you find yourself staring at 2 guys wearing ski-masks and carrying pistols.

They take a step towards you and you zap em’, 2 in one guy and 6 in the other – see you in hell fuckers – your family is safe now, you did you job as protector of your family.

You pick up the phone, dial 911 and tell the operator you just “fucking blasted 2 mother-fuckers that were in your house”. The police show up and you tell them everything that happened while standing in your front yard calmly eating a sandwich in full kit while the local News 7 films the body’s being carted out.

Fast forward 20 months…

You are eight months into a 6 year prison sentence getting man raped every night by your cell-mate, your wife and kids are living in a spare bedroom in your elderly moms house, you are bankrupt from the legal bills and because the “victims” families have sued you for everything and won, your daughter has strep throat and your wife can’t afford to take her to the doctor so she suffers in pain.

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GTA BABY!

My wife and I recently completed a long five days of driving across the Midwest, for a combination of business and pleasure. I found myself reminding her of some of the safety measures I’ve told her about before; measures that are not new, but easy to forget.

This will be the first in a series of articles of four on travel safety, covering driving, hotel safety, identity theft, and property theft.

SA (Situational Awareness)

Situational Awareness is vital in every time and place. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security that things are safe just because you’re on vacation.

There are MANY dirtbags out there that take advantage of travelers, knowing that they are unfamiliar with their surroundings, and not concentrating on the day to day business of staying safe. Your primary responsibility in life is the safety of your loved ones.

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