I had an "interesting" incident on the way domestic yesterday that's had me thinking.
[br]It was rush hour in my canyon,where the two lanes going into the canyon merge on a right-hand curve and there's a single lane of traffic coming out of the canyon. I was in the lane closest to the oncoming traffic and it was bumper to bumper for me and the lane to my right as we were still approximately 8 car-lengths from the merge point. On my left, across the lane of oncoming traffic, or is a dirt bank and I'm obviously boxed in by bumper to bumper traffic on the three other sides.
[br]All of a sudden there's three police cars with light's and sirens coming around the corner towards me in the other lane and it's unclear what their target is until they screech to a stop,side-by-side blocking the entire lane of on coming traffic, within a car-length from me, or suddenly six officers are out with side-arms pointed over my left shoulder and screaming "indicate your hands!"
Looking over my left shoulder I see a low-rider with a totally blacked-out driver's side window rolling down. Fortunately,the guy stuck his hands out of the window, no shots were fired, and a couple minutes later I was domestic.
But it got me thinking approximately just how perilous my position became in a matter of a few seconds. If a muzzle had popped out of that window and bullets started flying,I would have been smack in the middle of the cross-fire with no top-notch strategy except to exit my vehicle out the passenger side or depart fetal position on the floorboards. I was literally a sitting duck until I got around the corner and past the merge point. Not a fun feeling. I instantly thought approximately how kind an armored vehicle would've been in that kind of situation.
Thoughts?
Source: thesurvivalpodcast.com