Not a dumb strategy, just very clever ways of using open places, police stations, a bank, remote gates / garage doors or helping people that end up with you being robbed, or worse.
How we do it in Africa. 🙂
Case 1:
Friend of ours was selling his car. Nice lady came to see the car, met his wife, all was 100% legit, she wants it. She wisely insisted the financial transaction to take place inside a bank of his choosing. I mean, that is really sensible, right?
As he stops in front of the bank, the lady who is buying the car gets in and points to a car across the street with 3 males in it, all 3 watching them and waving. Lady says, please, give me your ID, cellphone, car keys. Now, she tells him, go into the bank and draw all the cash you have, bring a slip as proof of the accounts and the cash. If you tell or warn anyone, or not comply, the guys over there are going to visit your house, we know your wife and kids are at home right now. She got that info when she met the wife when viewing the car, all in an innocent conversation about school and kids between two females.
He did as he was told, left with no cash, no car, no cell and no ID. He did report the “bank heist” and car theft to the bank and police station, bank was worried that it was a hoax. Case is still ongoing.
Case 2:
Either a woman or a smallish child, stands next to the road looking desperately for help. So one stops, people or good. The lady / kid gets in and ask you to please take them home, not the police station, just home please, my dad / husband will beat me.
So you take them home. When you get there you are asked to please walk them to the door. As you get to the door their is a gun pointed in your face. You lose.
Case 3:
Walls around our properties, 6 foot or higher, good and a bad move. You have a nice outside barbecue, 20-30 guests. Next moment 4-8 armed guys jump over the wall and rob everyone at their leisure, no-one can see from the street.
Case 4:
Car security gates / garage doors, the ones you press the remote to open, really easy targets for a car jacking. Whilst you wait, knock knock on the window, guy standing their with a gun, other car blocking your reverse.
Case 5:
Bolted in security gates at you front door with linked alarm and armed response. Take the really good guys 1-3 minutes to get in through the gate and door, enough time to steal TV’s, laptops etc, and drive away at their leisure, before the security company / police arrives 5 minutes later. They drive top of the range stolen cars, dressed in suits, no indication they “look” questionable.
Conclusion
A person/s wanting to rob you, if they really think about it, can take what they want when they want. Robbing is not our day job. We have no training on how to protect ourselves with the really determined, clever ones.
Dumb tactical strategies, if you do that, just means their is more for the rest of us when the SHTF. 🙂