'Bollard Man': Hero who confronted stabber promised Australia visa
'Bollard Man': Hero who confronted stabber promised Australia visa
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Its kinda crazy to me how someone can stab 18 people before someone is able to stop them. Were all the victims alone with nobody close to stop the suspect? I probably would chicken out aswell in a situation where im not close, but if somebody gets stabbed right next to me, there is nothing to do but fight is there?
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Stopping someone with a knife is very difficult.
In my youth I used to fight Muay Thai professionally and did so for about ten years. I would be very confident taking on a random person in fisticuffs but I would rank my chances against someone with a knife very, very poorly.
Knives give an obvious reach advantage. Also just one nasty slice or one well placed stab and you're fucked where generally most people will take a few well placed strikes to stop. The odds just aren't in your favour.
Basically the safest thing to do against someone with a knife is run for your life or get your hands on a weapon that's longer than the knife if you can't run.
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This is very sobering and decent advice.
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Not a whole bunch you can do without some kind of polearm or range weapon. At most you can try stabbing him back if you happen to have a knife, but you'll probably both bleed out. More than likely some of those 18 people who were attacked were likely hurt trying to help.
Idk if a liveleaks equivalent still exists, but back in the day you could see the results of unarmed people trying to disarm someone with a knife. It's usually not pretty even if it's a couple people working together.
I think the poles that allow you to pin someone down are prob going to be more common place in places like the UK or Australia .
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Good on this man. Also
Gee, five of the six people he killed were women, and his father said, "He wanted a girlfriend and he has no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain," but it's such a mystery, I guess we'll never know. ¯(ツ)/¯
Dudes will literally murder people instead of going to therapy.
And he was a mentally ill schizophrenic...
So are millions of people who have never stabbed anyone.