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Scenario: 12-2004
The Auction House Scenario
By: Anonymous
The estate of a recently
deceased older relative has selected an auction house to dispose of his
belongings. You have been asked to meet
the 70 year-old proprietor of the business at 9:00 PM to make final arrangements. The immense auction house is along a
well-traveled road just outside a small town.
When you arrive and park your Chrysler Sebring convertible about 25
yards from the front door, you notice that there are 2 other vehicles in the
parking lot.
As you enter the auction
house, you can see 2 males and 2 females in the snack bar area about 50 feet
away. Just inside the entrance of the
snack bar is a 6’x6’x6’ stack of cased soft drinks. It appears that 2 of the individuals are a “couple” and they are
loudly asking to borrow money from the proprietor. The proprietor is telling them that he cannot go to the safe
right now due to a business appointment (with you). The other female is in her mid-twenties and is wearing a tight,
short skirt, low-cut white blouse & is “posing” in a seductive manner in
front of the proprietor. The other
male, upon seeing you enter the business, gets up and moves to a position
behind the stack of soft drinks out of your view.
As you wait for the
proprietor inside the front door of the auction house, you hear what sounds
like a mop handle hit the floor behind the soft drink stack. The “couple” raise their voices as they
become more strident in their request for money.
You are armed with a Les
Baer “Stinger” in .45 ACP loaded with Federal 230 grain HydraShok ammo in a
Sparks Versa Max 2 holster on your right side and an Emerson Mini CQC-7A is
clipped to your left front pocket. Your
Nokia 6340i cell phone is in your car in the parking lot along with your
Guardian OC spray and your SureFire G2 Nitrolon flashlight.
Carefully consider the
scenario and send us your solution.
I've long ago
learned not to leave my equipment behind. But for the purposes of the
scenario...let's assume I left half the stuff in the car.
First of all, there
is not enough information to tell me just what is going on here. There never
really is enough information, but this one really has a paucity. One
thing I do know is that I've already been identified as the source of the delay
in opening the safe. Therefore, the owner is already dragging me into
something I have nothing to do with. Do I really want to do business with
this guy?
So far, there is no
indication of an assault, and it doesn't yet rise to the level of calling the
cops to report a disturbance. I say nothing, leave the warehouse and get
in my car and leave. Settling one estate in the family is enough.
I'm going to tell my family that this guy has some business problems and maybe
we shouldn't trust him with our belongings and the proceeds from the sale. If
my relatives still want to use this guy's services, and he wants the
business...he can come to our place and talk to us.