Like 3 Little Fonzies: How to be cool under the gun

[SouthNarc]

Jules does a great job of using the sparkly in the case (did we ever figure out WHAT was in the case?) to draw Ringo's attention.

I was loaned out to an agency circa' '96-'98, buying crack and we had a hard time capturing guys on the video cameras we had installed in the car. They were wise to it and did a good job of keeping their faces above the roofline of the car to avoid getting captured.

My solution was to get the centerfold of a hot naked girl in an explicit porno mag and open it up where it was laying on the passenger seat propped open with other crack-head detritus and back drop like half empty bottles of malt liquor and crumpled Newport cigarette packs. When you add in a Watec 660 board camera shooting out of a pinhole in the passenger side arm rest across the driver's side, it made it easy to grin kinda' silly and say to a dude "Hey man..check out mah' girl" and watch him say "DAAAYUM!" and get him to chicken neck inside the driver's side window and get a full face shot for ID.

Same principle, different application.

[SouthNarc]

Anywho I've done a lot of rambling about a metric fuck-ton of esoterica that has shit not to do with gear, marksmanship, or gun-handling.

I think it's relevant based on my personal experience which is not all encompassing or the last word. Just my informed opinion. Follow your own path.

[Clusterfrack]

This is awesome thread drift, and I’m going to split it off when I get back from work.

[SouthNarc]

Another interesting bit, even less if at all known, is to what extent luck vs prep, training and equipment included, determines the outcome.

IME luck is half of it and most even in the know simply don't want to acknowledge that because it doesn't sell training.

[TCinVA]

My solution was to get the centerfold of a hot naked girl in an explicit porno mag and open it up where it was laying on the passenger seat propped open with other crack-head detritus and back drop like half empty bottles of malt liquor and crumpled Newport cigarette packs. When you add in a Watec 660 board camera shooting out of a pinhole in the passenger side arm rest across the driver's side, it made it easy to grin kinda' silly and say to a dude "Hey man..check out mah' girl" and watch him say "DAAAYUM!" and get him to chicken neck inside the driver's side window and get a full face shot for ID.

Same principle, different application.

Showing my age, but I remember Tubbs telling Zito to put a girly pic up by the hidden camera on a fencing sting they were running to get clear facial shots in Heart of Darkness.

[SouthNarc]

Showing my age, but I remember Tubbs telling Zito to put a girly pic up by the hidden camera on a fencing sting they were running to get clear facial shots in Heart of Darkness.

It works!

[tlong17]

Solid thread, for multiple, diverging reasons.

[YVK]

IME luck is half of it and most even in the know simply don't want to acknowledge that because it doesn't sell training.

I'm known to mutter "better be lucky than good" at the completion of my more challenging cases. I do make sure that patient is well sedated before I say that.

[SouthNarc]

I'm known to mutter "better be lucky than good" at the completion of my more challenging cases. I do make sure that patient is well sedated before I say that.

😂😂👍🏽👍🏽

[GJM]

Most of us are, or have been, a nano second from disaster so many times in life, that it it is hard to not acknowledge how important luck is. That said, whether in aircraft, with firearms or in many other pursuits, it seems the wise choice to increase your proficiency and make wise choices, so as to try to minimize the need for good luck.