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Here's the abbreviated version of 2 stories, both of which happened about 2 decades ago:
At a pawn shop. Guy comes in raving about his wife having pawned some electronics. Very upset. Makes a veiled threat and goes to car. I was leaving anyway, so I went outside to my truck. He opens trunk and starts rummaging around. I took a position of partial cover, got my grip on, and told him to come out empty handed. He jumped in car and took off. Cops called, they pulled him but found no weapon.
Was walking into gun shop with a friend. Car comes down street driving all crazy, so we stopped to watch. Two guys in car. Car slides by us, burns tires in reverse, stops. Driver yells "What you looking at" then repeats the slide burn and yell. My friend says "You." Guy parks car, digs around in his back seat, gets out of car while sliding something in his pocket. Starts walking toward me quickly. I drew to low ready and said NO! Guy redirects to my friend (BIG MISTAKE I'm thinking... I've seen this before!). Guy reaches out to shove Rob in the chest. Rob grabs guy by the crotch and the throat, picks him up sideways, bashes him into a telephone pole, throws him to the ground, falls onto him straddling, and proceeds to punch left kidney right kidney left kidney right kidney throat crotch repeat drill. Guy's friend gets out of car/I wave him away still at low ready. Finally the gun shop owner, a crusty old Army Sergeant, comes out and tells ROb to let the guy up. Guy summoned enough reserve power to get to his car and got the heck out of Dodge. Cops showed up and took report.
Rob never starts fights but he has a sure fire way of ending them. I swear I have seen him do this twice, heard about it another time. 1000yardshooter can probably testify.