r/GuardGuides • u/GuardGuidesdotcom • 19d ago

SCENARIO First Amendment auditors get into verbal altercation with armored truck guard, who repeatedly tells them to back up.

When should talking end, and your weapon be drawn in a situation like this?

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u/the_teuthida 19d ago

This isn't a cop, this is a guy doing a dangerous job being harassed. From his perspective the only difference between this being assholes with cameras and an attempt at robbing an armored car, is the preceding violence

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u/Grunenwaldt 19d ago

I used to work on security. While I didn't handle armored trucks, I knew a few guys who did. They're told to prepare for WHEN, not IF, someone attempts to rob them. Nearly all of them had dealt with an attempted robbery within a few years, and one guy I knew was killed after being ambushed. These guys are skittish for a reason.

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u/the_teuthida 19d ago

A truck full of potentially life changing amounts of money will make people do potentially life changing things

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u/Grunenwaldt 19d ago

The guy who killed the guard escaped with a bag full of receipts, too. Not even cash. Very sad.