XavierBreath
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Doggone it M&M, send us all a PM then! 
Seriously, my first consideration is to not turn my back on someone I am unsure is a threat or not. To walk away, you must turn your back or walk backwards, both bad options.
This is really going to depend on where you are at. If you are outside a restaurant, just go inside and tell the proprietor there is a bum panhandling outside. If you are outside any business, do the same. Let them take care of the bum for us all. Business owners don't like bums outside harrassing potential customers, not even in New Orleans. The bum is counting on us to be in to big a hurry to deal with him effectively. He expects us to buy him off with a dollar or ten. Give him the time he deserves, and help the businesses improve their location.
On a side note, the wife and I went to a restaurant in separate cars. When I pulled in the lot and went to her car, a female crackhead had asked her for money. My wife, sweet and caring woman that she is, turned her back on the crackhead, leaned over into her car with her back to the crackhead and went digging in the console for spare change! Needless to say I was furious. I got between her and the crackhead and told her to back off. She started on her "What's it to you" routine, so I took my bumfuzzled wife by the arm, remotely locked her car doors, and backed inside the restaurant, all the time with my hand on the J frame in my pocket and a crackhead screaming. My mother in law was waiting for us there, and both she and my wife thought I was a little nuts, afterall, it was a good neighborhood right? Wrong. It was a business district. I alerted the maitre 'd of what was occuring in his parking lot. He collected a busboy and went outside to take care of his business. I ate on the house that night.
Another option in your situation is to simply return to your car, get inside, start the engine, turn on the AC, and get out your cell phone. Call the police and have the bum picked up. That may take a little while and be an inconvience though.
The most effective way of dealing with this kind of person is to not attract them. Do not make initial eye contact. Look through them. Look at their hands. Train yourself to look at hands. It will help you avoid an armed attack, but more importantly, it gives bums the distinct impression you are a cop. When you leave your car, do a 360 scan as you get out. It gives the same impression. If the bum bothers you anyway, draw him to the nearest business that cares about what happens outside their doors, and let the man in charge know what is going on outside. Be it a hotel, a restaurant, or an automotive parts house, none of them want bums driving off customers.
Karate? I never want an attorney to be able to ask "Why did you not disable my client's son with your karate skills rather than shooting him until he stopped advancing on you?" If I know no karate, then I am not ever going to be asked that question in front of a jury of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee fans.
Seriously, my first consideration is to not turn my back on someone I am unsure is a threat or not. To walk away, you must turn your back or walk backwards, both bad options.
This is really going to depend on where you are at. If you are outside a restaurant, just go inside and tell the proprietor there is a bum panhandling outside. If you are outside any business, do the same. Let them take care of the bum for us all. Business owners don't like bums outside harrassing potential customers, not even in New Orleans. The bum is counting on us to be in to big a hurry to deal with him effectively. He expects us to buy him off with a dollar or ten. Give him the time he deserves, and help the businesses improve their location.
On a side note, the wife and I went to a restaurant in separate cars. When I pulled in the lot and went to her car, a female crackhead had asked her for money. My wife, sweet and caring woman that she is, turned her back on the crackhead, leaned over into her car with her back to the crackhead and went digging in the console for spare change! Needless to say I was furious. I got between her and the crackhead and told her to back off. She started on her "What's it to you" routine, so I took my bumfuzzled wife by the arm, remotely locked her car doors, and backed inside the restaurant, all the time with my hand on the J frame in my pocket and a crackhead screaming. My mother in law was waiting for us there, and both she and my wife thought I was a little nuts, afterall, it was a good neighborhood right? Wrong. It was a business district. I alerted the maitre 'd of what was occuring in his parking lot. He collected a busboy and went outside to take care of his business. I ate on the house that night.
Another option in your situation is to simply return to your car, get inside, start the engine, turn on the AC, and get out your cell phone. Call the police and have the bum picked up. That may take a little while and be an inconvience though.
The most effective way of dealing with this kind of person is to not attract them. Do not make initial eye contact. Look through them. Look at their hands. Train yourself to look at hands. It will help you avoid an armed attack, but more importantly, it gives bums the distinct impression you are a cop. When you leave your car, do a 360 scan as you get out. It gives the same impression. If the bum bothers you anyway, draw him to the nearest business that cares about what happens outside their doors, and let the man in charge know what is going on outside. Be it a hotel, a restaurant, or an automotive parts house, none of them want bums driving off customers.
Karate? I never want an attorney to be able to ask "Why did you not disable my client's son with your karate skills rather than shooting him until he stopped advancing on you?" If I know no karate, then I am not ever going to be asked that question in front of a jury of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee fans.
Funny line, though.
I would like to note that I am indeed just still a kid so my opinions are solely based on these short 22 years of experience.