My Life Was Threatened, Part I — Should I have Drawn?

By John Falkenberg

This is going to be one of two stories of the two different times that my safety has been seriously threatened so far in my life.

I’m relaying these to you in the hopes that you guys can not only get a feel of what a defensive scenario might consist of, but maybe engage the community with some of your own scenarios, as you are able.

The good news about this story is that at the end of the day, no one got hurt.

The bad news is this happened so many years ago that I didn’t have my permit yet.

I was a wee lad — 19 years old. When I was 19, I delivered pizzas for one of the local chains, whose name I will leave out of this for their sake.

My delivery area consisted of a large country suburb of a mid-sized city in North Carolina — that is to say, the job was easy, the tips were great, and the only real risk (most of the time, anyway) in what is all-too-often a dangerous job out in those parts was hitting a deer bolting out on the road.

The night in question, I was delivering a pizza to a family …Read the Rest

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