amazon shooter
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Hi guys,
I suspect most of us have never encountered a life threatening situation thank God, but some of us have had some close calls - this was my close call.
I have been living on a farm in the Amazon for more than 25 years. Some twenty years ago I was visiting a friend at his farm one night for beers and pizza. I left at 11 pm to return to my farm 10 kilometers away. It was a typically warm, humid, and starry night. The night creatures were making their eerier sounds and the pot holes and huge bumps kept appearing on the dirt road to keep me awake. Normally, not a creature was stirring - no people or vehicles. As I approached a chicken farm on my left, a man steps out from the shadows and into the middle of the road. He is holding a shotgun with the barrel pointed down and raising his arm motioning me to stop. The first thing I thought was, don't argue with a man with a gun. I didn't know what the hell was going on. I thought of putting my foot to the pedal and running over the guy, but if I didn't get him, he certainly would have unloaded his single shot, 16 ga. shotgun into the back of the cab as I tried to escape. If I were hit, I would probably bleed to death before I could get to town for help. So, I decided to stop. He came over to my door with the shotgun still pointing down and asked me where I had been and where I was going - I told him. He didn't identify himself. The guy wasn't a policeman or a soilder. Was he just the guard of the chicken farm? If so, why is he stopping me on a public road in the middle of the night carrying a shotgun and asking stupid questions? Next, he asked if I was carrying a gun - Gulp, I told him no. Then, he said, "Get out of the pickup truck".
The moment of truth has arrived. What would you do? You have seconds to assess the situation and formulate a plan or do you just do nothing and go along for the ride?
I''ll tell you later how it went down.
I suspect most of us have never encountered a life threatening situation thank God, but some of us have had some close calls - this was my close call.
I have been living on a farm in the Amazon for more than 25 years. Some twenty years ago I was visiting a friend at his farm one night for beers and pizza. I left at 11 pm to return to my farm 10 kilometers away. It was a typically warm, humid, and starry night. The night creatures were making their eerier sounds and the pot holes and huge bumps kept appearing on the dirt road to keep me awake. Normally, not a creature was stirring - no people or vehicles. As I approached a chicken farm on my left, a man steps out from the shadows and into the middle of the road. He is holding a shotgun with the barrel pointed down and raising his arm motioning me to stop. The first thing I thought was, don't argue with a man with a gun. I didn't know what the hell was going on. I thought of putting my foot to the pedal and running over the guy, but if I didn't get him, he certainly would have unloaded his single shot, 16 ga. shotgun into the back of the cab as I tried to escape. If I were hit, I would probably bleed to death before I could get to town for help. So, I decided to stop. He came over to my door with the shotgun still pointing down and asked me where I had been and where I was going - I told him. He didn't identify himself. The guy wasn't a policeman or a soilder. Was he just the guard of the chicken farm? If so, why is he stopping me on a public road in the middle of the night carrying a shotgun and asking stupid questions? Next, he asked if I was carrying a gun - Gulp, I told him no. Then, he said, "Get out of the pickup truck".
The moment of truth has arrived. What would you do? You have seconds to assess the situation and formulate a plan or do you just do nothing and go along for the ride?
I''ll tell you later how it went down.
