[High Praise! to DoublePlus Undead]
Ok, well, technically this video is a parody of ACTUAL government “non-violent bystander intervention” advice, but the advice itself it all too frighteningly real.
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Seems kinda foolish to have nine steps when you all need is one.
1) Draw your licensed concealed-carry weapon.
Is that what Obama’s Secret Service agents do when the president’s being attacked?
@1 – Somehow I find that mental image more entertaining that a decent man ought to.
I always use Steve Martin’s advice when I am approached by anyone I don’t suspect has my best interests at heart :
1) Pee your pants and make it a really large wet spot. [both legs are better]
2) Act just as nutty as you wish and ‘then’, turn it up to Eleven/plus.[See : Monty Python’s ‘Gumbies’ for an example]
3) Talk and sing to yourself, at a conversing level.
4) Act joyously happy to see ‘that person’.
They won’t hang around long.