*From a recent CCTV video
– An argument on the street starts out with a chest-to-chest confrontation
– The guy in the red T-shirt (with the knife) stabs the guy in the white T-shirt
– 5 seconds later the guy in white T-shirt quickly falls to the ground, bleeding
Lessons to be Learned:
Violence happens fast, never ever stand chest-to-chest with any stranger Profile, Profile, Profile – if a stranger comes up to you, move away quickly Try to move 2-steps away at an angle, make space, having time to react
If you sense an attack forthcoming – make a plan, strike him preemptively
Profile, Profile, Profile + Stay Away From Dangerous Situations
I was always attracted to knives since I was a child but I never fully appreciated how dangerous they were until I was attacked with one. While in Lima, Peru I occasioned to wander into a notoriously dangerous part of the city. I went there to get a better exchange rate for my dollars. Of course I naturally ignored the warnings from my friends not to go there.
When I arrived at the exchange location in front of a specific building, I was approached by three men. I asked to do a money exchange, and when I pulled out my wallet one of the men immediately grabbed it. I grabbed it back and punched the guy, as he fell down, one of the other men grabbed my arms from behind while the third man punched me in the face. I grabbed both men and threw them onto the ground – they had a difficult time getting up so I left and proceeded to walk to my hotel which was 20 minutes away. When I entered the lobby of the hotel, the hotel staff were staring at me in an odd manner – the concierge exclaimed, “Sir, you are bleeding,” I replied, “where?” He said “Everywhere!” I looked down and saw that my shirt was soaked in blood.
My face and head were still numb so I felt nothing. The hotel called a doctor – I was bleeding from below my eye, luckily it wasn’t serious. What I thought was a powerful punch was actually a knife strike. Since then I have always kept my distance from any strangers, profiling everyone and veering off at angles when approached closely. My scar is slightly visible – lesson learned.
WR
10 Stabbing Victims Describe What it’s Like to Be Stabbed
*Original article from Ranker, by Kellen Perry
1) I Thought He Was Punching Me
An Australian woman known in the press only as “Elizabeth” was stabbed an astonishing 31 times by a home invader in a “frenzied attack” in 2002. Amazingly, she lived to tell the tale. At first, Elizabeth felt like she was being punched. “I couldn’t understand why he was punching me,” she told Australia’s Daily Telegraph in 2013.
“I didn’t realize that the blows were actually him stabbing me. I have read since that this is quite common when the sympathetic nervous system kicks in.” While her mother called for an ambulance, Elizabeth felt like “a cold wind was sweeping through [her] body.” Upon seeing all the blood on her bathroom floor, Elizabeth, in a surreal moment, thought, “This is all going to need to be regrouted.”
2) I Felt Really Really Hot and I Felt Sick All Over
Emily Spink was stabbed by her partner in 2012 in an uncharacteristically drunken rage. Spink said the knife to her back felt like a “really hard punch.” When the reality of the pain set in, she felt hot and threw up all over the floor. Her partner called for an ambulance, saving her life, but not before she asked him,
“What on earth did you do that for?” Spink, a British citizen, says the Nation Health Service saved her life. “If there’s one thing that has come out of this whole sorry tale, I will not hear a word against the NHS,” she told The Guardian.
3) I Was Indeed a Stranger to What Was Going On
When Eric Maurice Clark was stabbed 13 times, he said the pain made him feel “like a stranger to what was going on.” He remembers hearing the nurses counting his wounds, thinking “nobody lives after thirteen times of being stabbed,” like he was standing over the gurney.
In a sick bit of irony, the doctors had to make another stab – a surgical incision, sure, but a deep cut nonetheless – to insert a breathing tube into his chest. “I tried with every ounce of air that I had to tell the nurses that I couldn’t breathe; they already knew anyways,” he wrote.
4) It Was Like a Lightning Strike
Tim Kreidor told This American Life in 2012 being stabbed in the throat was “like a lightning strike – over almost as soon as it happened, and the illumination didn’t last.” Kreidor’s “unsuccessful murder,” he claims, is “less interesting than it sounds.” In fact, he says “getting stabbed wasn’t even among the worst experiences of [his] life.”
Besides granting him a “euphoric gratitude,” he says the experience made him develop “a strange new laugh that’s stayed with me to this day – a loud, raucous barking thing. It makes people in bars or restaurants look over for a second to make sure I’m not about to open up on the crowd with a weapon.”
5) It Was Like Someone Slapping Me on the Back
Wesley Canning from Feeney, Northern Ireland, told the News Letter getting stabbed in the back in a “frenzied knife attack” felt like “someone slapping [him].” It wasn’t until he saw the blade – “nine or ten inches long” – that he felt the “throbbing pain” all over him.
In the moment, he thought it was his “curtain call,” but he didn’t even pass out, despite losing two liters of blood. He was lucky to be alive: one of the other three men stabbed that day spent the night in intensive care “fighting for his life.”
6) I Didn’t Feel Nothing At All
MMA fighter “Lightning” Lee Murray told MMA Weekly that when was stabbed outside a London nightclub in 2005, he “didn’t feel nothing at all.” This, despite reporting “blood was literally shooting out of [his] chest” like a Mortal Kombat character.
“It was literally flying out of my chest like a yard in front of me,” he said in an interview. Murray said when he noticed blood on his head, he thought someone had punched him. It wasn’t until he saw blood squirting out of his chest that he knew he’d been stabbed.
7) Each Stab Felt Like It Pierced My Soul
Vancouver resident Michael Osborne was stabbed repeatedly with a steak knife by former lover Joshua Stranz following a back rub in 2010. He told a judge “each stab felt like it pierced my soul,” and that even after six months of recovery, “he still lives with pain in his head and side from the stab wounds.”
The stabbing occurred after Stranz was released from jail for robbing a fireworks stand – and it was Osborne that ratted him out. After eating cake and soliciting a back rub, Stranz “started choking, punching, and stabbing” Osborne.
8) It Felt Like Water on My Stomach
An Irish teen told a courtroom the blood felt like “water running down his stomach” after his next-door neighbor stabbed him at his 18th birthday party in 2013. Like many other stabbing victims, the teen initially thought the stab was a punch.
After attempting to flee, he collapsed, feeling like he couldn’t catch his breath. The damage also led to a sharp pain in his lower extremities, especially his left leg: “It was really, really warm, it felt just like a dead leg.”
9) I Felt Like I was Going to Die
Roy Sinclair of Oxford told The Oxford Times in 2008 getting knifed twice outside his house made him feel, unsurprisingly, like he “was going to die.” But more surprising was that he couldn’t even move for two weeks following the attack while he recovered from a punctured lung and kidney.
“My kids were crying when they came to speak to me at the hospital,” he said. Even after being released, Sinclair felt in pain “all the time” and couldn’t bend down to pick things up due to the back pain.
10) I Continued My Mission
It sounds like satire, but 22-year-old Michael Baker from Forest Grove, OR, did indeed continue to play Pokémon Go after being stabbed by a random man one July evening in 2016.
He told the media he refused medical attention because “he still wanted to hunt for Pokémon and other things,” including continuing his “mission” for “chips and beer.” Despite later needing eight stitches, it was all mind over matter for Baker. “[I]t’s important to me. I gotta basically catch them all,” he told local news outlets, adding that “he’ll be careful next time.”