My apologies for my comments to you also … I am so used to the the nutbags here starting stuff with me…
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I might be a scrotum, but not a nutbag; or so I’ve been told.
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Confidently smile and say, Sir, please be mature and back away, with my hands crossed below my waist in easy reach of my waist pack with a large leather piece attached to the zipper where I can quickly pull my heavy caliber weapon out.
Wow you mean you can actually see me to try to establish communication then inform the subject that I don’t have any money while the whole time figure out what his or her intentions are then by whatever means to de escalate the situation and make it home alive
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Just say no
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Had a guy on the Trax Train ask me for my phone, I said NO. His response was “Well I’ll just take it then.”.
Hand to hand techniques worked to convince him he didn’t Really want MY Phone.
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I always have it in the back of my mind things can escalate
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@Burdo Boy that was intense.
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There’s a lot of takeaways from that video.
New to the community? Start here
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I would be scanning the area from when I started walking to my car so I hopefully would not be surprised by this person. When he came at me I would take a non aggressive but prepared stance, and calmly explain I do not have any cash. If he became more aggressive I could go to my bag of tricks. I usually carry a high lumen flash light on of the Nitecore EDC sereis ( 27,29, or 37) both the 27 and 29 have a 2500 lumen strobe, the 37 has a 8000 lumen strobe. I also started carrying pepper spray as well as 2 to 3 blades and my pistol. I would use any type of force only as needed and if deesclation did not work. Hopefully after me explaining calmly but firmly that I did not have cash that would work but I would continually be looking for an out before using any force.
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Start here
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Sorry dont like 2 talk about my self im a private person but thank u for your concern
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Fair enough. 
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I always carry a spare car key from an old car I sold just in case I’m ambushed in a parking lot and someone demands my keys…I will give them that one and get away
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hear this a few times before (giveaway wallet to throw away to try and get them to go fetch it)
- I thought about it for my trip to Chicago a few winters back but didn’t find a wallet at Goodwill
Also watch Massad Ayoop (sp?) walk about keeping a matchbook with a $10 or $20 rubber-banded to it for situations like this in the bar just to deescalate things if someone gets bumped or something, “sorry, next round on me.”
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lol! When I was homeless, I would shark pool to make drinking $$$. Teamed up with another guy and we would roll players for pretty good money.
We took a couple guys for basically their entire paychecks one evening (the bar would cash their checks). Won just south of $2k off them, and made them pay for almost every round that night.
Pissed my partner off at the end of the night by throwing a $1000 game…..
But the other guy’s partner looked like he was about to break a cue over my head if I actually won the game!
I figured we were up $500 each, even with the loss, and been drinking all night for free, no need to get my @$$ kicked in over an extra couple hundred! 
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Yay, another formerly homeless guy! Better education than college imo .
To answer the original question, it’s been very rare that I’ve been approached, but the last couple times I engaged them in conversation about being down on ones luck, and recommended a better climate/environment for them to pursue their career. Basically it’s “why the heck are you here, this place sucks for panhandling” . My homeless stint was in San Francisco and I highly recommend that city, my other “interesting” period was in Miami FL, and I explain the advantages of a good climate and potential for alternative forms of employment in these more metropolitan areas.
Last conversation with some hustlers was in NYC. My son and I went there for a concert, had 2 brothers approach us with a CD, so I engaged them in a conversation about music. Turned out they were from Bridgeport CT, a place my son had played a few festivals at. They offered me the cd, I accepted, they then said they were “thinking like $4 for it” which is when I laughed and said I didn’t have any money. They responded “your son has a $20” as yeah,my kid had his wallet out,so I just laughed again and said “yeah, and you ain’t getting it “ to which they politely agreed. I then had a talk with my son, and he did real well during a night time walk through the tenderloin in San Francisco, another concert and return to memory lane for me.
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A few days ago taking my Sister for ‘PT/Post Op eval’ (2) Thugs thought a Gimp and an old Lady were easy pickings in the Hospital Parking Garage. CCTV must have been ‘Manned’ that morning as (3) unarmed Security came rushing to these two Gummer’s Aid! No need I assured them as the two (very fast!) wood-be robber’s caught a glimpse of my .44 and all of a sudden remembered a Dental appointment!
‘NEVER TAKE STUPID TO A GUNFIGHT!’ ARGH!
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.44 Magnum. The best gun for the “no shot stop.” 
Try that with a little mouse gun they might not even notice!
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