Out Crazy The Crazy.

I have a friend who lives in New York. She's from the West Coast but she is an actress doing her thang in NYC. She is littlest cutest redhead you've ever met, I've written about her before. I met her on the Japanese Gameshow.

Well, she was mugged last weekend. Seriously mugged.

I read a post about it on facebook, and I was shocked and honestly scared. We don't have a lot of muggings in Sandpoint. The closest thing to a mugging is well, I don't know a moose blocking my mailbox? A bird swooping my head when I get too close to it's nest? 

We don't have muggers here. Muggers come here to take time off (not a lot of nice purses to rip off in this town it's like going to rehab for a mugger-no temptation). 

A couple of days after she was mugged she posted this on my wall:

"So there's something you should know.... last week when I was mugged all I could think was "OUT CRAZY THE CRAZY"... so I'm starting a new craze..."

Let me explain this.

You see, a long time ago I was forced to take some self defense classes. I gathered a lot from these classes but the item that stood out in my mind the most was that: in the wild when bird's are confronted by a predator or another bird they fluff up their feathers and try to look bigger and scarier. The birds do this to ward off an attack, it is a defense mechanism. You see this situation with all kinds of animals and it works with humans too. When in a situation where you are being attacked or sized up, act crazier and braver than your attacker. Make yourself so darn crazy that its not even worth your attacker's time. 

When we were in Japan I told Ms. NYC this. Then I showed her what crazy looked like. 

I live by this advice bestowed upon me by my self defense instructor 16 years ago. I used it when I worked in a mental hospital several times. My patients found it hilarious, when they would be losing it over something and then I would throw myself at the wall and start agreeing with them. Normally they would start laughing and the situation would diffuse.

It has saved me. And now it saved my dear friend.

I haven't heard exactly what she did. But thankfully he only escaped with her purse. 

And hopefully there is a mugger in NYC, who keeps looking over his shoulder wondering when that crazy red head is going to exact her revenge. 

Thats my second blog this week. Booyah. I feel like my old self. Well except for the 11 week old human being attached to my left breast. Other than that, totally normal.