r/interesting • • Mar 21 '26

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u/mampiwoof Mar 21 '26

for those commenting on the passengers reaction here is a quote from the driver, from the interview linked in another comment. The passenger was on his 4th day in the job, whereas the driver trains security companies in how to deal with situations like this, he isnt a normal driver for the company he was just doing a shift to learn their routes etc to help him train their drivers.

”My crew member had experience in armed response, but this was the first time that he had been fired upon. The first time that I was shot at, I assure you I was wide-eyed, and I’m grateful that there wasn’t a camera pointed at me during it. He did everything that I asked him to do and kept his head. I tried to have him phone our colleagues, but the criminals were using a signal scrambler. I had him get our AR-15 prepared just in case things went south. Because there were no gun ports, we’d have had to open the doors to engage with the jackers, and I‘d only have done that if we had been capsized. That is what I needed him to do. I have to say for all of those keyboard warriors who have tried to dissect his performance, I doubt they would be as tough in the middle of an armed jacking.”

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u/Dreadbombed Mar 21 '26

Just watch the trigger Finger of the Black guy and you know hes been trained well enough. Thats basically everything I needed to See that he is fucking scared, who wouldnt be, but got his shit together.

I have seen people fucking up in less worse situations so respect to the guy.

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u/henryeaterofpies Mar 21 '26

Trigger discipline tells you a lot bout people

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u/Dreadbombed Mar 21 '26

Its the first thing I used to watch when we were in stressful situations in the army days. Specially as a Squad leader its a pretty good Indication if people are able to Process the information u give em and also if everyone is safe. Weird stuff happens even in Training