PSA: keep your head on a swivel and your wits about you at west Va state parks

[dad4]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I am glad you were properly prepared and the story had a happy ending.

 

[webb297]

Thank You for the AAR, I go to places like that a lot. I am glad you and the Mrs. are OK.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

Appreciate sincerely your AAR

Tickled pink y'all are ok

Local LE ought to set up a sting

Your recommendations are valid and welcome reminders to always be ready

Damnit if your wife's reaction wouldn't be exactly like mine and at the same time, exactly what wasn't needed at the moment. I'll take this as an opportunity to tune up my own wife's SA and to remind her of acceptable actions in different scenarios.

God helps those who help themselves. You truly put yourself in the position to be lucky. Good on ya.

 

[Norton]

I'm putting this here for now because I asked some WV people from another forum to check in on this and they can't see it in the WC.

 

[teratos]

Thanks for sharing the story. Glad you both are OK!

 

[CharlieFoxtrot]

Thank you for sharing. Other than it not happening at all you couldn't have asked for a better outcome.

One of the things this highlights is having a set of code words or other sort of pre-planned signals with your spouse to alert them to a situation or just make them stop and assess the situation.

 

[pbharvey]

Appreciate sincerely your AAR

Tickled pink y'all are ok

Local LE ought to set up a sting

Your recommendations are valid and welcome reminders to always be ready

Damnit if your wife's reaction wouldn't be exactly like mine and at the same time, exactly what wasn't needed at the moment. I'll take this as an opportunity to tune up my own wife's SA and to remind her of acceptable actions in different scenarios.

God helps those who help themselves. You truly put yourself in the position to be lucky. Good on ya.

I thought about that as well. My wife probably would've offered them a sandwich and some lemonade. She assumes the best in everyone while I assume everyone is a liar and wants to kill me. The thing is, her world is a much happier place to live in and I'm reluctant to ruin it for her. I have made a little progress with her though in the past few years.

 

[K31]

Public service announcement:

WV allows concealed carry without a permit, for anyone not a prohibited person.

Any duties to inform LEOs of this if you are stopped?

I would probably do this anyway but I'd like to be certain.

Edit: found it. No duty to inform. http://www.wvcdl.org/WVCCW.php

 

[Half-cocked]

I was thinking meth heads by the way you were describing the scenario. That stuff has ruined rural America.

Meth and prescription opioids.

Just a handful of drug distributors pushed hundreds of millions of pills into WV over a short period of a few years. Literally hundreds of pills for every man, woman, and child in WV:

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-h...0m-painkillers-into-wv-amid-rise-of-overdoses

...so many WV'ians are dying, that the state can't keep up with all the bodies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-up-with-the-funerals/?utm_term=.aeae3627fda8

I'm not one given to tin-foil conspiracy theories, but suppose you wanted to commit genocide and somehow get away with it... this is exactly how you'd do it.

 

[Threeband]

This looks like the spot.

 

[44man]

This looks like the spot.

Exactly the spot.

 

[Threeband]

I'm glad you're all right. Glad you were armed. It sounds like you handled it about right.

To clarify, was it the Bodyguard .38 revolver, or the Bodyguard .380 auto?
https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2010/7/15/sw-bodyguard-series/

Anyway, no doubt these misguided Yutes will now see the error of their ways, get right with God, and enroll in Trade School.

 

[44man]

I'm glad you're all right. Glad you were armed. It sounds like you handled it about right.

To clarify, was it the Bodyguard .38 revolver, or the Bodyguard .380 auto?
https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2010/7/15/sw-bodyguard-series/

Anyway, no doubt these misguided Yutes will now see the error of their ways, get right with God, and enroll in Trade School.

The .380 auto. It's so flat, light and slips right in my pocket. And light is a concern when I have to do a lotta walking. I know a .380 is supposed to be iffy but it beats the heck outta not having anything.

And I am 100%sure that those "gentlemen" were plying their only trade.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

I thought about that as well. My wife probably would've offered them a sandwich and some lemonade. She assumes the best in everyone while I assume everyone is a liar and wants to kill me. The thing is, her world is a much happier place to live in and I'm reluctant to ruin it for her. I have made a little progress with her though in the past few years.

I love mine for being so damned confident and independent...right up until I don't.

 

[MigraineMan]

I'll take this as an opportunity to tune up my own wife's SA and to remind her of acceptable actions in different scenarios.

One of the things this highlights is having a set of code words or other sort of pre-planned signals with your spouse to alert them to a situation or just make them stop and assess the situation.

Entering broken-record mode ...

Establish a pre-negotiated "attention" code that's easy and immediate. The Red/Yellow/Green safeword system works well and is easy to remember. "Yellow. I need your help." expresses urgency but not immediate action. "RED. Go back to the car." means drop whatever you're carrying (I don't care how expensive or cherished it is) and beat-feet NOW, no questions.

The key here is that you need something to pop everyone out of whatever immersive state they're in and pay attention without engaging in a 3-minute debate about the merits of the interruption.

My wife objects to needing to have this degree of communication structure in our lives. She wishes people were not nasty. The car thieves who chased us out of Baltimore were nasty, and she really can't argue that.

 

[Ranchero50]

Damn, so many movie scenes roll through my mind. Take their shoes and wallets, drop their pants into the gorge. I guess at a certain point getting away with your whole skin and no further problems is good enough.

 

[44man]

Entering broken-record mode ...

Establish a pre-negotiated "attention" code that's easy and immediate. The Red/Yellow/Green safeword system works well and is easy to remember. "Yellow. I need your help." expresses urgency but not immediate action. "RED. Go back to the car." means drop whatever you're carrying (I don't care how expensive or cherished it is) and beat-feet NOW, no questions.

The key here is that you need something to pop everyone out of whatever immersive state they're in and pay attention without engaging in a 3-minute debate about the merits of the interruption.

My wife objects to needing to have this degree of communication structure in our lives. She wishes people were not nasty. The car thieves who chased us out of Baltimore were nasty, and she really can't argue that.

This is very good advice. I will have to figure out how to get my wife to do it though.

My wife is the kind of girl who blasts past a bad guy to help me fight with two other bad guys just because it's always me and her against the world and she thought I needed the help.

I love her to death but I wish she hadn't taken the chance but it says something about her. She's always been the best girl in the world to me.

 

[44man]

Damn, so many movie scenes roll through my mind. Take their shoes and wallets, drop their pants into the gorge. I guess at a certain point getting away with your whole skin and no further problems is good enough.

The way I looked at it was I wanted my wife outta there safely I wanted to get outta there safely , I was not giving them anything, and I didn't want to push it any farther because I didn't want to get in a position that I had to shoot three young men if I could avoid it. So yes, getting outta there with our skins intact was enough.

 

[Threeband]

Still, it would've been kinda cool if your wife, instead of running past #3 to join you, had grabbed #3, picked him up over her head, and flung him bodily into the gorge.

Maybe a little scary since you have to live with her, though.

 

[Juche90]

Public service announcement:

WV allows concealed carry without a permit, for anyone not a prohibited person.

Including out of state residents?


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