Weapons

[Faarax-Brawn]

Originally posted by Bishitta:

 

 

It's also useful for opening stuff that I just bought, and can't wait to get home to open.

Ciyaal toobas(Topaz)waaxid. Maxaad dad sakiin kujartay?

 

But what do i keep in my car? A fully lincenced Bastoola .Dont &*&*&F with me,ight

[Valenteenah.]

A female colleague was mugged by a knife-wielding hoodie this morning. 7am, main road, traffic building up and nobody tried to help her even though she was screaming at the top of her lungs.

 

She is normally a really cautious person, but it didn't help her. She was still taken by surprise. You can never do enough to be completely safe, but it helps if you take ur personal safety seriously.

 

I use to carry something, but I don't anymore. I just try to stay alert and minimise the personal items I carry on me.

 

Also, it's recommended that you spread your stuff all over your person. Don't put everything in your bag. Put ur phone and keys in one pocket and your travel card and wallet in the other.

 

Knives seriously scare me.

 

 

[E]Oh you want to know what ppl carry in their cars! Right. Should have read the whole thing.

 

As you were.

[Naden]

^ :eek:

 

There used to be a time when people came to the rescue of the injured and attacked. It reminds me of house robbers in Somalia. One person screamed 'toog' and you had neighbours, street vendors, child and passerby alike jumping over the fence to chase the robber down. Now you get mugged at knife point in daylight without so much as a helping shout. Sigh.

[Nephissa]

Londoners are exempted from the Car talk. Since you lot rely on the puplic transportation, why don't you tell us what weapons you carry in your pockets and under your .. ?

[Cara.]

Ya'll are scaring me. I routinely leave school at midnight or later. No weapons, no tae kwondo, usually listening to music, sometimes walk all the way home.

[Castro]

^ This ain't Galkacyo, dear. Watch your back.

[sheherazade]

^don't listen to the music, u need all your senses.

 

Naden, getting helped is a bonus. I don't expect it if I get into trouble. But no way will I carry a knife, I don't believe that sh*t about using it to defend yourself, it's their to maim. I can't be sure I won't cause death. Shiver.

 

About coming to the defence, I was once on an underground train and two boys who were together, happliy talking and laughing, facing one another start to play-fight suddenly. Both are Eastern European about 13-14 years of age and quite big, one much bigger than the other- I'm talking body fat here.

 

For some reason, one starts to get rough, really rough. Pow, splat, hit, kick, knuckles and slaps rain down on one another. Everybody in the carriage fidgets, some refuse to look their way, some watch in abandon, some look and turn away(moi), nobody wants to get involved. I really want to except I'm on my way to an interview- they never bothered to give me feedback after, those b*stards- but I am smaller than even the small 13 year old and I don't want to get hurt cause they're all over the place and I know what happens when I get in between fighting boys, I get hurt. Not to mention the sweat and saliva being exchanged(my suit!).

 

BTW, the smaller one in size is doing all the damage. The other one does what he can but he's been bashed and battered and it's obvious. By this time I think how sick it all is, after all they are only boys!! Suddenly, the vicious boy lands a rather hefty blow to the bigger one and the bigger boy slumps to the floor.

 

I throw my magazine to the floor and get up. The vicious boy on seeing me approach runs for it and heads for the doors. PHEW.

 

The train is at a station now and he stands on the platform holding the doors open but pleading with his friend and calling out a name over and over. I have no idea what he is saying but the look on his face tells all- he feels terrible cause his friend isn't moving.

 

A man also gets up(group mentality) and goes after the attacking boy. He talks to him sharply and quickly in a language that I assume the boy understands(though he may not have been but wanted to get it off his chest anyway). He walks back to his seat.

 

I bend over the bruised boy and rub his back: are you OK?(st*pid Q 9988123). He looks up, face tear-stained and in pain. U're going to be OK, sit up. He follows my instructions obediently.

 

The doors beep to signal their closure but the other boy is still holding them open. He calls for his friend again. The other commuters tut and fidget some more cause we're not going anywhere with open doors. I go into headmistress mode and look at the boy: Friends do NOT do that to one another. U either get in or let go of those doors now!

 

He releases it, the train pulls out while he looks through the glass at us mournfully. I stay and talk with the other boy- some lecture about not fighting.

 

Those b*st*rds never bothered to call me back...

 

Help is a bonus. Everybody's worried they'll get dragged into a pain-causing incident. Especially one involving the spillage of body fluid.

 

Edited: that wasn't meant for u Castro but I'll leave it there anyway.

[Animal Farm]

I knew this kid, when we were younger, and he used to talk about robbing Somali women at weddings, because they had so much gold on them. Turns out he actually pulled it off one night, many of the women were horrified, and some of them began being escorted to and from weddings. The craziest stick up kid I’ve ever met.

[Naden]

^^ @ Sheh

 

I don't think I've ever seen anyone intervene in public the way you have there. I find most people scared of teen boys (some are shepherds of the devil) but I strangely don't find them threatening at all. It's the textbook type psycho (white, 30s, raincoat, shifty eyes) that scares the crap out of me. I regret taking a serial killers class in uni., I haven't been the same person since :rolleyes: .

 

I figured there is a serious risk that my knife will be used against me. Since I'm fairly aggressive for a girl and have worked with street teens in the past, I will not go down without a fight in the case of an attack. The attacker always has the element of surprise on you but I reason that a healthy suspicion and a little knife are my only weapons.

[Cara.]

Originally posted by naden:

It's the textbook type psycho (white, 30s, raincoat, shifty eyes) that scares the crap out of me.

Me too. Only I figure I'm a black woman. Most of those shifty-eyed serial killer types target their own race. Right?

[Naden]

^ I sure hope so. If any of them wants to jump over the ethnic fence, this black woman and her short knife will be waiting.

[Jacpher]

Keep the fulay message board going.

 

The only time I consider carrying weapon of some sort is when I bike in certain neighborhoods.

[Nephissa]

^ If you'r not fulay yourself, why carry a weapon in certain neighborhoods?

I'm selling ninjutsu training videos, contact me for details. You can learn to practice ninjutsu like me and Sheh(the ninja master ) then you can be a ninja master too, and teach your friends, and you will all be ninja masters. No one will mess with a ninja master riding his bike.

 

As for defending someone, I have never been in the presence of two people going at each other violently, where I was in any position to stop it. But I would contact the authorities in the event an innocent victim was being hurt.

 

On one occasion, I had a girlfriend who's husband was domineering, jealous and possessive who had come to my home for a coffee visit. He was fuming when he entered my living room. He came in verbally assaulting her, for not having called him and why she hadn't let him know why she had been over too long. I told him in no uncertain terms that I absolutely would not stand for such abuse in my presence, or on my property and that if he persisted, I would contact the police, and let them help her to resolve it. Istupidh guy, he shut his mouth and left my driveway squealing. I don't tolerate such ridiculousness.

[Pacifist]

Ladies you need to carry a mase or this

 

 

pepper spray there are some with key chains.

 

they also look like this

 

 

just make sure if you live around children that you put it away.

 

THis is how you use it

 

http://www.peppersprayinc.com/faq_about_pepper_spray.htm

 

Make sure you aim and wait for the right moment although sometimes that is not possible, at least when you spray it will give you time to escape and call the police due to the chemical temporarily blinding them. Also when you spray them the uv lites stay for at least a week on them. Hope that helps

 

Make sure you look behind you and your surroundings and always try to get an escort of security if possible to your car or bus.

[Jamilah]

Originally posted by Animal Farm:

I knew this kid, when we were younger, and he used to talk about robbing Somali women at weddings, because they had so much gold on them. Turns out he actually pulled it off one night, many of the women were horrified, and some of them began being escorted to and from weddings. The craziest stick up kid I’ve ever met.

LOOOOOL. Talk about the perfect crime.