One of my closest friends I've know for many years had a truly scary situation. First a little info on him, he has a permit to carry concealed in Louisiana.
He's in a Burger King drive thru, pulls up to order some food and the BK people ask him to hold for a minute. After a couple minutes 2 guys in a truck behind him start yell'in and honking pissed off at my friend for holding up the drive thru. My friend doesn't say anything to them or gesture to them, simply rolls up the window. After a few seconds, they bump into him, maybe 2-4mph. So he pulls a few feet forward leans over to the glove box to get his insurance papers and dials the police to report an accident, and BLAM!!! They slam into him a second time, he estimates they hit him about 10-15mph. Then as he is talking to the police on the cell, the driver of the truck jumps out, runs to my friend's door, and starts to pull it open. He's blocked in front and can't accelerate forward to get away. He locks it as the guy is pulling it open, so the door is locked but loose(you can wiggle the door, but its still not open). Then the guy reaches thru the window as my friend starts to roll it up(electric). The guy is able to hold the window from closing all the way, as the guy is reaching one of his hands towards my friend, my friend pulls out his 9mm, points it at the guy's head point blank, and pulls the trigger. Click. My friend had just bought this particular gun just a few days ago and isn't completely famaliar with it. Being that it has no safeties(double action only) he didn't trust it with a bullet in the chamber. Luckily the guy had enough, ran back to his truck and took off. The police apprehended them a few miles down the road and charged them with vehicular assault among many other charges. My friend thought that maybe the guy was drunk, but the police told him later that the guy was sober!
My friend is pretty wigged out from this and this isn't the end of it. Since the driver of the truck has been charged with a criminal crime, my friend can't get his insurance info to file a claim until after the guy's court date/trial. The insurance companies don't have to pay if a claim isn't filed within a year and the guy's court date is more than a year away. So my friend gets a hold of the cop who arrested the guy and explains the situation. Luckily the cop said, "I remember hearing such and such company" off the record. So my friend calls the insurance company and of course the guy didn't even tell his insurance comapny, yeah surprise there... As he talking to insurance claim agent, he tells them that the van that he was driving was full of computer equipment(my friend fixes computers for a living) and probably has over a million dollars of equipment that might be damaged. My friend could hear as the guy on the phone told his boss that they had a possible million dollar claim on their hands. Needless to say, after the guy is sentenced for his crimes, he'll also be dropped by his insurance which will cost him a fortune to get reinsured! More justice to say the least.
The scary part about all this is we still don't know what that guy would have done if he had gotten access to my friend's van. Sure he told the cops he was pissed from waiting in line at the drive thru, but how can you trust that?? He could have killed him, or maybe just punched him. No way to know, but there are enough crazies out there I wouldn't be surprised if that guy had tried to kill him.
My friend is angry at himself for not being famaliar enough with his new gun. He's had and carried guns for decades. And he knows that he could have been killed that day.
My friend is also wigged out from the fact that he almost killed someone. But he feared for his life and I don't think he over reacted at all. If it had been me(I don't carry a gun), I'd slamed the van in reverse, turned the wheel to the right. And run that bast@rd over. Someone who flips out over waiting in a drive thru has the possibility of being homicidal, you can bet I'm not going to wait and see if he is!!
That perp is lucky as he!!. If my friend had been carrying one of his older, more trusted guns, that guy's head would be all over Burger King's drive thru menu.
And remember this Louisiana, just like Texas almost every carries guns in the trucks. Its common, so its even weirder that someone would rush someone's car knowing a high percentage of people carry guns in there cars.
Its better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6...
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He's in a Burger King drive thru, pulls up to order some food and the BK people ask him to hold for a minute. After a couple minutes 2 guys in a truck behind him start yell'in and honking pissed off at my friend for holding up the drive thru. My friend doesn't say anything to them or gesture to them, simply rolls up the window. After a few seconds, they bump into him, maybe 2-4mph. So he pulls a few feet forward leans over to the glove box to get his insurance papers and dials the police to report an accident, and BLAM!!! They slam into him a second time, he estimates they hit him about 10-15mph. Then as he is talking to the police on the cell, the driver of the truck jumps out, runs to my friend's door, and starts to pull it open. He's blocked in front and can't accelerate forward to get away. He locks it as the guy is pulling it open, so the door is locked but loose(you can wiggle the door, but its still not open). Then the guy reaches thru the window as my friend starts to roll it up(electric). The guy is able to hold the window from closing all the way, as the guy is reaching one of his hands towards my friend, my friend pulls out his 9mm, points it at the guy's head point blank, and pulls the trigger. Click. My friend had just bought this particular gun just a few days ago and isn't completely famaliar with it. Being that it has no safeties(double action only) he didn't trust it with a bullet in the chamber. Luckily the guy had enough, ran back to his truck and took off. The police apprehended them a few miles down the road and charged them with vehicular assault among many other charges. My friend thought that maybe the guy was drunk, but the police told him later that the guy was sober!
My friend is pretty wigged out from this and this isn't the end of it. Since the driver of the truck has been charged with a criminal crime, my friend can't get his insurance info to file a claim until after the guy's court date/trial. The insurance companies don't have to pay if a claim isn't filed within a year and the guy's court date is more than a year away. So my friend gets a hold of the cop who arrested the guy and explains the situation. Luckily the cop said, "I remember hearing such and such company" off the record. So my friend calls the insurance company and of course the guy didn't even tell his insurance comapny, yeah surprise there... As he talking to insurance claim agent, he tells them that the van that he was driving was full of computer equipment(my friend fixes computers for a living) and probably has over a million dollars of equipment that might be damaged. My friend could hear as the guy on the phone told his boss that they had a possible million dollar claim on their hands. Needless to say, after the guy is sentenced for his crimes, he'll also be dropped by his insurance which will cost him a fortune to get reinsured! More justice to say the least.
The scary part about all this is we still don't know what that guy would have done if he had gotten access to my friend's van. Sure he told the cops he was pissed from waiting in line at the drive thru, but how can you trust that?? He could have killed him, or maybe just punched him. No way to know, but there are enough crazies out there I wouldn't be surprised if that guy had tried to kill him.
My friend is angry at himself for not being famaliar enough with his new gun. He's had and carried guns for decades. And he knows that he could have been killed that day.
My friend is also wigged out from the fact that he almost killed someone. But he feared for his life and I don't think he over reacted at all. If it had been me(I don't carry a gun), I'd slamed the van in reverse, turned the wheel to the right. And run that bast@rd over. Someone who flips out over waiting in a drive thru has the possibility of being homicidal, you can bet I'm not going to wait and see if he is!!
That perp is lucky as he!!. If my friend had been carrying one of his older, more trusted guns, that guy's head would be all over Burger King's drive thru menu.
And remember this Louisiana, just like Texas almost every carries guns in the trucks. Its common, so its even weirder that someone would rush someone's car knowing a high percentage of people carry guns in there cars.
Its better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6...
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