Lagduf said:
Quality post.
Thats some scary shit with regard to those two hoods - glad they were just fucking around but also glad you had the extra protection you would have needed had shirt started to hit the fan. I don't know that I could do what you do Merc with you having a wife and daughter. Mads props to you sir.
The Boy Scout in me has been musing over preparing a "survival/emergency preparedness kit" of sorts to store in my vehicle just in case some major shit ever goes down or just incase I get a wreck/go in a ditch during a snow storm or encounter an emergency where people need first aid.
It's be a fairly large collection of things, rope, first aid kit, matches, blanket, lighter, poncho, etc - stuff like that. Mostly geared towards what if i crashed my car in the middle of nowhere, with no access to help, and had to survive for 24 to 72+ hours on my own OR people (myself included) needed first aid.
I'd like to keep a knife and honestly a firearm (maybe a .22lr/.410 shotgun setup or a hangun)...but since my desired career field is education having a knife or firearm in my car on school property would be a major no-no. Plus some private businesses and government agencies don't want you to have weapons on their premises (parking lot included). I'm sure I could get away with a multi-tool like a leatherman though, especially in MO.
Maybe I should include some level II body armor.
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#1> Thanks for the compliment. Not everday I have a "Quality Post" moment. *LOL* More or less why I've been MIA around here too, not to mention the fact I've stepped up my game in the SEO field. **As for the danger of what I do for a living. Well bro, I had to accept the fact sometime ago, after leaving the Private Security field (for about 2 months) and enrolling in a college online course study for Medical Transcriptionist... that no matter how far I try to get away from Security Enforcement, Police work, and/or military work of an Independent Contractor status (since the DOD won't even consider anyone with Beetees),
this is what I'm good at, and ultimately who I am.
In all honesty, the wife doesn't care for it, but she's finally accepted that she married a Gung Ho point man of the Urban Jungle. Thing is bro, even with the amount of hazing and violence that gets directed at me (and any other SEOs I'm posted with) Security Enforcement doesn't get nowhere near the action tha LEOs see, but this is primarily due to the limited jurisdictional nature of what I do. I don't get to make traffic stops, solve crimes, high speed chase, and stuff like that. My capacity is for the
Deterence and/or Prevention of criminal mischief or activity, but if a situation deems it neccessary for the protection of a 3rd party or myself, I can then go into action. THAT SAID, I've had about 5 major situations (2) of which I barely got through alive, on the posts I've worked on for PSCs since 2006, prior to being "commissioned" and since being commissioned. Problem is, outside of speaking vaguely of this, due to professional and legal reasons, I can't really name names of posts worked at, addresss or anything.
I'd like to, but I can't. Strange thing though, is the scariest and down right most crazy moment I've had wasn't on the job. Last March (of 2007) a drug dealer/pimp moved into the condo complex I live at, literally 4 doors down from me. Long story short, I didn't know that Vice was working a case against them, and when the johns started messing with my wife's vehicle and hanging around at night, I got involved off the clock but as a "Home Owner". All the other residents were afraid to get involved, so much so I took to armed patrol (with that bodyarmor under a button up denim shirt) carrying a Mossberg 500 with me and my .357 Desert Eagle in a duty belt + 4 spare mags... and questioned any and all coming onto the property at my end of the building who didn't belong there. Problem was one of the johns was undercover. Somehow they thought I was "the enforcer" for the dealer and
I was followed for a week, and I made every tail and what not, thinking I was being tracked by goons for the dealer. It all ended with a raid on the place, but not before there was a misunderstanding with my father and I (coming back from the shooting range), and well, let's just say we drew on the cops they drew on us, AND divine intervention took over. The guy leading the raid was trained as a TI by my father 30 years earlier... thus no gunfight with the good guys, Thank God. Otherwise I'd have accidentally capped the good guys and got torn in half by the guy with the Shotgun and my father would've got it too. I was just glad my wife and child weren't around for that.
But I'm getting my Private Investigator (PI) license soon, and I'll by taking cases for the PSC I work for, thus I get to move up a notch in the private sector. Truth is bro, IRL no one wants "gun" action. A person thinks they do (I did) until they see it a few times, then you realize it's not like in the movies. The first time you nearly crap yourself and can barely breathe... but you gotta' move forward and just do the job and/or "Survive".
#2> Having an emergency response kit is paramount bro. A lot of what you wrote down ARE things you should have ready. Though I see the legality problem with the CHL gun inside the car thing on school property. I'm CHL ceritfied but never bothered to get my CHL. I'm going to this time around, but for now I mainly carry a 4 inch Smith & Wesson HRT Tanto knife in a sheath as personal "last resort" carry weapon. It's been in my experience that most of what happens is going to happen fast, and up close enough that I could use a knife when least expected on someone trying to kill me, but I don't run with hoods and stuff, so I don't much worry about it all.
Well it's been fun chatting with you bro, but I'm off to go pick up my paycheck, got a lotta' things to do, probably won't be back on the boards for a bit. If you want to read up on the THREE differences of what comprises a "Security" Guard, Security Enforcement Officer, and a Police Officer,
then check out my blog here.
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