Norman Bates
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As Brian killing tangos rightly stated it on another thread, this is about considering new options, points of view.
This particular scenario is fairly common in Buenos Aires. I'm going to describe it in 2 different variants.
It does sometimes happen in this city (Buenos Aires, Argentina), that when you grab a cab you just set yourself up to be mugged.
Our cabs are all medium cars, 4 dorrs and no partition between the driver and the passenger. Normally you sit in the back, opposite the driver and you find that the co-pilot seat is all the way forward so you can sit more comfortably in the back. This also gives the driver/or passenger a better access to the other occupant's seat
The trap: If you're about to get mugged, you'll soon find out that you can't open your door from the inside. It's not that the handles are removed but there's a device for children that prevents the door from been opened normally. You just trapped yourself.
Now there are a couple of variants to the hold up, basically the driver just does not take you using your regular route with some stupid argument and then suddenly, at a red light 2 or 3 BG get into the cab. One to each side of you and another at the front seat. Your adventure begins. You're about to visit your ATM, maybe a Mall and eventually even your home before being taken and dropped off at a lonely place far away from your original destination.
Variant B is that you might notice that your cab is being followed by a "support"car or cab before all the SHTF. This actually happened to a friend of mine. My friend threw himself at the cabbie and grabbed him by the hair and also strangled him and forced the cab to stop in front of a cop. The cabbie did not complained to the cop but chose to make a fast getaway while my friend talked to the cop and right afterwards the support car slowly passed by. My firend got a lot of murderous looks but that was the end of it. There's nothing the police can/will do about this MO. They hardly ever catch the muggers in the act. This last also happened to someone i know. The cab run out of gas and a police car stopped to check it. Now the mugged guy is even more worried since the robbers were arrested but now have access to the police file and perfectly knows were the victim lives.
OK, now i'd love some opinions, tactics, you name it. BTW, this is also the most scary moment in my every day life, when i take a cab to drive my 4 year old kid to school every morning. More scarrier since i'm with my boy. In fact , i'm writing this because this morning the cab had too many rearlooking mirrors and all the inside locks were removed.
NB
This particular scenario is fairly common in Buenos Aires. I'm going to describe it in 2 different variants.
It does sometimes happen in this city (Buenos Aires, Argentina), that when you grab a cab you just set yourself up to be mugged.
Our cabs are all medium cars, 4 dorrs and no partition between the driver and the passenger. Normally you sit in the back, opposite the driver and you find that the co-pilot seat is all the way forward so you can sit more comfortably in the back. This also gives the driver/or passenger a better access to the other occupant's seat
The trap: If you're about to get mugged, you'll soon find out that you can't open your door from the inside. It's not that the handles are removed but there's a device for children that prevents the door from been opened normally. You just trapped yourself.
Now there are a couple of variants to the hold up, basically the driver just does not take you using your regular route with some stupid argument and then suddenly, at a red light 2 or 3 BG get into the cab. One to each side of you and another at the front seat. Your adventure begins. You're about to visit your ATM, maybe a Mall and eventually even your home before being taken and dropped off at a lonely place far away from your original destination.
Variant B is that you might notice that your cab is being followed by a "support"car or cab before all the SHTF. This actually happened to a friend of mine. My friend threw himself at the cabbie and grabbed him by the hair and also strangled him and forced the cab to stop in front of a cop. The cabbie did not complained to the cop but chose to make a fast getaway while my friend talked to the cop and right afterwards the support car slowly passed by. My firend got a lot of murderous looks but that was the end of it. There's nothing the police can/will do about this MO. They hardly ever catch the muggers in the act. This last also happened to someone i know. The cab run out of gas and a police car stopped to check it. Now the mugged guy is even more worried since the robbers were arrested but now have access to the police file and perfectly knows were the victim lives.
OK, now i'd love some opinions, tactics, you name it. BTW, this is also the most scary moment in my every day life, when i take a cab to drive my 4 year old kid to school every morning. More scarrier since i'm with my boy. In fact , i'm writing this because this morning the cab had too many rearlooking mirrors and all the inside locks were removed.
NB