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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5715376" data-attributes="member: 54877">As you say, no one really knows what they would do, if they haven't been in that situation before.  But based on the closest parallels for me, I think fight or flight for me is going to mainly depend upon something setting me off.  I've never been prone to fight, but I've got "protective instincts" that are a bit extreme.  So if the guy is coming at me, I'm almost assuredly running, unless I've got no good way out.  If he is coming after my co-worker, the 60 year old nice old grandmother that I've known for years--then I'm probably going after him.  In violent situations (e.g. car wrecks) that I have been in, it has been about 50/50 on, "time slows down and I can see and react to every detail," versus, "did someone get the license number of the truck that hit me?"  So assuming I don't freeze or miss it entirely, I think the "set me off" part is the critical thing.  And if you think I'm extreme that way, you should know my sister. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> But people are strange.  For every incident of total panic, there is a counter example.   One of my favorite incidents happend a few years ago in Birmingham, AL.  A 14 year-old punk tried to steal a purse from a 90 year-old lady.  She walloped him with the purse, then pulled from it her 38.  As he turned to run, she shot him twice.  He ran around the corner into an alley.  While wearing high heels, she chased him into the alley, and shot him twice more.  He got away, but showed up later that night in a local emergency room, where they dressed four bullet holes in his butt.   At the trial, the judge asked her why she shot four times.  She said that the alley was dark, and her eyes weren't what they used to be. She was afraid she might hit someone else if she shot again.  The judge told the punk that he should take this as a sign that he wasn't cut out for a life of crime. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> That wasn't TV.  That was real.  I think if our TV guy comes after this old lady, he better have something more than a hammer and bleach.</blockquote>

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