COUNTER AMBUSH this is funny but makes a point...how would you respond?

[Jack_F]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4111828595395
Note the startle responses. Only the girl who gives the finger takes a defensive stance. She has trained well!

[Richard S]

To borrow  Ernest Hemingway's metaphor in Death in the Afternoon, that woman displayed more "cohones" than all of the men combined. 

[Douglas]

Do you (-the rhetorical "you" not asking anyone specific) really snap into a fighting stance every time you get startled?

I don't.

Seems a little excessive to me. I probably would have laughed and kept walking.

[Richard S]

Do you (-the rhetorical "you" not asking anyone specific) really snap into a fighting stance every time you get startled?

I don't.

Seems a little excessive to me. I probably would have laughed and kept walking.

I'll bite as "the rehtorical 'you'" with the answer that I once decked a friend by reflex when he pulled a "surprise from behind" prank on me one night.

I apologized to him --  but I didn't really mean it. It was a reckless thing for him to do.

[billmc]

Its is a somewhat funny video.  Mainly, I think, because most of us would not expect an ornament to behave this way.  But I do suppose, that it points out to us, to "expect it, when you least expect it".

On another forum, I posted a little story about what happened to me a couple of weeks ago.  I didn't react "correctly", but I guess we learn from mistakes.  Here's the link, if you care to read it.

Bill

http://www.stoppingpower.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22289

[backupr9]

Do you (-the rhetorical "you" not asking anyone specific) really snap into a fighting stance every time you get startled?

I don't.

Seems a little excessive to me. I probably would have laughed and kept walking.

I'll bite as "the rehtorical 'you'" with the answer that I once decked a friend by reflex when he pulled a "surprise from behind" prank on me one night.

I apologized to him --  but I didn't really mean it. It was a reckless thing for him to do.

I once had the same thing happen...decked him good.  We later became a pretty good duplicate bridge team.  If you plan to startle someone, best be in a defensive stance BEFORE you do it!