What we have here…
Is an amazing lack of situational awareness. Along with some amazing stupidity.
However, dinner was interrupted when the area outside the businesses erupted into chaos.
Just briefly, let’s run down the list:
- “Swarm” of teenagers
- Ignored a feeling of alarm
- Saw people running, apparently sat waiting to see what was happening
- Jumped into the middle of a riot
Numbers 1 and 2 should have led to her saying to herself “Self, I think we’ll be eating elsewhere tonight.” Number 3 should have led to her dropping more than enough cash on the table to cover the food and a tip and de-assing the AO immediately by the nearest exit that took her in the opposite direction. Number 4 is just stupid–you get hurt or killed pulling dumb stunts like that.
But the money quote is this, from Elkins-Johnson herself.
“You don’t run to fights; you run away from fights,” she recalled telling them. “A bullet does not have a name on it.”
She really should take her own advice.