Some background information on myself before I tell what happened to me last night. I'm 16, male, and a senior in highschool who is active in wrestling and tactical shooting. I was en route to my house from my GFs house when this event occured.
I was travelling along one of the two most heavily traveled roads in my city at around 12:50. The road has 5 lanes, two going each direction and one in the middle for crossing into traffic from businesses that border the road. As I was traveling in the direction of my house, a White 2000ish Explorer performed a U-Turn infront of my car, going from the opposite direction in the exetremed left lane of traffic to the Near right lane of traffic, thus making them go my way. I made the mental deduction that these were probably college drunks out after a night of partying at a club no more than 600 feet up the roadway. I crossed into the extreme right-lane of the road and passed them WITHOUT making eye contact or looking into their general direction because I was tired and listening to my music.
The driver of said car accelerated and matched speed with me and the right-side, back-seat passenger put his upper torso out of the car and yelled to me to "Pull over and settle this shit like a real man..." I was now able to establish four passengers in the car, all males, atleast one apparently intoxicated. I assumed that the driver was not intoxicated due to the way he was handling the car. Now, I am not a pussy, but I am also not stupid enough to not swallow my pride when faced with a far superior adversay force. I was armed with a Spyderco Gunting G-10, that I had taken Knife Defense classes with, and an aluminum baseball bat. I quickly decided to "Fuck that" and accelerated in an attempt to evade the individuals. I drive an Infiniti J30T. Again, they matched speed and proceeded to throw two open, albeit full, beer cans at my driver side window. This angered me, however, I had no capability to effectively retaliate. They pulled into my lane, the right side lane close to the middle lane, and I quickly turned into a Walgreens parking lot and proceeded to a backstreet and entered the general vicinity of my neighborhood. They took the next turn and were again following me. I made the decision not to penetrate deeper into my neighborhood, because if I had temporarily lost them in my neighborhood, and had returned home, they would be that much closer to finding my house and endangering myself and my family (I have a mother, father, and an 8 year old sister).
I circled back out, all the while being tailed, and ended back up on the original "main drag" that I had been traveling to go home when they made the U-Turn. I decided to slow down and wait for a 3rd party car to arrive and quickly get behind them, thus putting that car between the pursuers and myself. This chance was given to me. A car came up from behind, a big behemoth Cadillac traveling in the near right hand lane, while I was in the extreme right hand lane. The pursuers were infront of me, slowing down, however still moving because I believe the driver thought I might ram him. Once the car passed me, I quickly switched lanes behind the Caddy and then turned off onto a side street. I proceeded home, all the while making quick direction changes and turning off streets so as not to stay on one street too long, so that if they were able to follow me, they could not find their way through the myriad of streets I had crossed. I eventually got home, at around 1:07 am, called the police and asked if they could search my neighborhood and the main street for a white 2000ish Ford Explorer with the rear left brake light shield broken, so that only the white light was exposed. I couldn't get the License plate # because I was concentrating on evasion.
I am telling this story to tell all you parents out there the importance of teaching your child self-defense and quick-thinking. I do not think I am the victim of some horrendous crime because I was pursued, no, I know that there are countless people that have not faired so well. I do think this is a lesson to all people about the importance of adequately
arming your
person and your
mind to effectively deal with unprovoked situations such as this. We need to be skilled with our weapons of defense and knowledgeble of effective tactics so that we
don't become another statistic in a Victim log at our local precinct. An even worse situation would be your
own 16 yr. old daughter having this happen to her. How would she react? Would she be able to cope and adjust to the situation? These are questions that need to be addressed, esspecially in a time when urbanization is on the rise, thus creating conducive environments for events such as this.
Thanks for reading... and you can all feel free to call me a douche for being worked up..