Originally posted by: Hubris
Originally posted by: themightyplatypus
Knives don't really intimidate me, a knife wound is too clean to kill instantly unless its dead on for the heart, and the combination of mace + my ability to fight would protect me in that situation. A gun I would be more worried about. Most likely I'd hand over the car, but it would depend on the circumstances, traffic, and how lucky/pissed off I was that day.
LOL
Thanks for the laugh.
WTF? Yeah, a knife wound to the gut that perforates your colon wouldn't kill you or anything.
Or a knife wound that severed your femoral, carotid, etc. arteries. Keep thinking you're Rambo and hope to god you never get proven very, very wrong.
The key word was instantly, you illiterate ingrate. You'd have to be pretty damn skilled with a knfe to, after being maced, be able to aim for any place that is life threatening enough to kill before paramedics arrive.
I don't think someone who gets sprayed in the face with mace has a snowballs chance in hell of doing anything life threatening to me with a knife. I've been in fights before, I know how to defend myself, and I would not idly stand by a be a victim in that situation.
And, like all things in life, it would depend on a lot of factors. I wouldn't take my chances in a really bad neighborhood (not that I drive around in really bad neighborhoods anyway), and I probbably would weigh my chances more carefully if I was far away from a hospital. If I got carjacked in my day to day routine, I most likely wouldn't hand the car over as there are just too many other options, including just driving away. Who carjacks a car during a traffic jam?
Not to mention guys don't get carjacked that often. Its something that usually happens to women.