Claude responds to: Situation Awareness and How it Affects You

Claude sent me a reply this a.m. to the incidents Debbie and T-Bone (Previous Post) had and generally asked as to how many John Q. Dumbasses spent the night in the hoosegow or face up on a cold slab because of their brains bein vacuum packed for freshness......but their mouth motor was still able to run on its own. And it reminded me.....
  
When I was still married years ago, and my kids were very young I had a brother in law who is a great person but an even bigger smartass than I and that takes some doin folks. He was young and bulletproof as most of us usually are and was out at a club in South Houston. On his way home or wherever he shot down Edgebrook to the Whataburger or Burger King at the Gulf Freeway and went in to get some clubbers haute cuisine. Fast food.

As he stood in line, a punk came in with what he described as an Uzi or Mac-10 sub machine gun and came to the counter. Being the perennial smartass he turned to the bad guy and asked ,"Is that thing real?" (knowing him the entire family knew he asked in his best smartass fashion and tone) to which the bad guy replied by placing it against his chest and BANG!,pulling the trigger. We got the call from Ben Taub and rushed there....long story short

He got the million dollar wound. Close contact range, full metal jacket bullet, high speed projectile passing through the lung without striking bone on the way in and on the way out. As we call it a through and through. He lived and to this day as my kids say he's still a smartass.

DON'T THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN TO YOU OR YOURS, AND DON'T THINK IT ONLY HAPPENS IN DESERTED PARKING LOTS OR HOME INVASIONS.

IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE TO ANYONE AT ANY TIME.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR SENDS THANKS TO CLAUDE AND DEBBIE, AND T-BONE....... AND TO GOD, GOOD KARMA AND EXCELLENT TRAINING THAT THEY ALL CAME HOME SAFE AND ALIVE.

Eddie