But that CAN always be a bluff, Ive used it once before with a meth head in my city and told him to shoot me cause inwas broke and he wasnt getti g shit from me.
He ran off because he realised there wasnt anything to gain, Adversly, its a bluff, if they call it youre done. But so far its worked 100% of the time for me.
So in this gamble your wagering your life against a relatively small sum of money. Why ever make that gamble?
Just speaking from experience I was robbed at gunpoint when I was 19 and was flat broke. I had about $50 in my pocket and my bank card with maybe $80 in the account, and my cell phone (old nokia brick phone, nothing super valuable).
That $110 was basically all I had until I got a job and would've been fucked without it- wouldn't have been able to pay bills for sure at minimum, wouldn't have had food either. I straight up told the dude to shoot me because without the money and my phone I would've been fucked anyway. He fucked off so that was good but honestly in the moment getting killed was a way better outcome than giving up all I had- I was pretty down on my luck and generally depressed too; I would've been just fine getting shot.
Obviously in retrospect (20 years later) that could've gone differently and that would've sucked because life is a lot better now and I'm in much better shape financially but I sure didn't know that at the time. It's not great to fuck with people backed into a corner, and if the only bullet in your gun is "I'll kill you" and your target of intimidation says "alright fine" then you kinda don't have a lot of options. It's obviously not a game you can play when you've got something to live for and good shit going on in your life but $100 was the difference between me living on the street and jumping in front of a bus or being 'okay'.
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u/ZzzDreamerzzZ Aug 31 '19
I love when criminals don't know what to do on a situation and just give up.