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Quote Originally Posted by ThorstenL View Post
The time in the east german paramilitary when they accidentally drove our armoured car into the path of a 50 cal machine gun (which penetrated this car's armour) during a life fire excercise counts as "in harm's way" I guess.

My run-in's with the eastern european mafia in the very early 90's while running clubs probably where more serious, but if you see someone storming your office in full russian military body armour and with an AK-47 ready (that would be me BTW, with some of my security guys) you shoot them in the head if you mean to kill them, not where the speznaz flack jacket catches the bullets (I was sore for two weeks though), so I guess they did not really try so it count as "in harms way" too.

As the east german secret police made a special point of NOT beating you up themselves in most of their prisons (well, at least the ones I can talk about, there where rumours about some for really hard cases, the kind you really did not want to go to) - they had the real criminals beat up the political prisoners instead usually on odds like 3:1 and the guards broke up the "fight" after 20 minutes and confined the "political" to a week of solitary for starting it - and they made sure you died of "natural causes" (at least in the paperwork) or "industrial accidents" if they wanted to kill you, that does not count either I guess, just in harms way...

BUT, there was that Jamaican drugdealer ex boyfriend of my ex. drug addict girlfriend in the late 90's (and future drug addict as I found out to my displeasure).

But while the will was there very much on his part (he did even had a gun, but could not even load and un-safety it), there was neither the skill not the weight or muscles or other means.

So I guess he does not count either (he was so pathetic, when the old bill came to collect him he would not get up until I told him so, telling then policeman to tell me not to do anything anything bad to him if he followed the police orders, as I had promised him he would be dead if he moved - he believed it well enough).

Oh, there was that turkish guy in East Berlin in 1986, I still have the scars all over my left palm from taking his knife away from him by the blade... He really did try, but in the end it was my friends pulling me away that stopped me from killing him. Amateurs.

So yes, at least in one case, two if count that 9mm round I would have shot at my forehead and not my body armoured chest, had I been shooting, not catching. Some more if we are generous.

And no, they are all NOT just stories.
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