shtfschool | I knew a guy before SHTF who was nobody. Ordinary worker from one of
the industrial machine parts factory. Actually I did not really know him
other from usually “hello” on the street, or football discussion
sometimes in the neighborhood.
He lived alone, looked decent, and had a typical work and afterwards
“coffee house / bar with friends” life. If someone asked me to describe
him, I would say “just a guy from the neighborhood” or typical “normal
dude”.
When SHTF, he emerged as one of the leader of local groups. And he
was popular, he had something that make people want to follow him.
Problem was that he had something that make bad kinds of people follow
him. He was pretty much something like psychopath.
Murders, rape, robbing and everything else that goes with that was
their way of life in that time. And to make things clear here I need to
say that whenever I met him and his group out on the street I would go
and hide even I knew him from his “former life” as normal guy.
This guy was now someone very different.
It was not a movie, I was prepared to confront them and fight only
as a last option, but Batman was not living in the city in that time,
even if he was there he probably would have given up so chances of
superhero versus group of bag guys was not realistic.
How bad?
They liked to catch sometimes a guy and make him run over the open
space where snipers were active, if the guy survived that (rarely) then
they shoot at him. If he survived that shooting too, then he would live.
He called that “God will decide are you going to live or die”.
Some people have certain type of charisma, and he had lot of it.
When you add fact that he was bad, or evil if you like you got explosive
combination. He was something like bad kind of hero, man who weak
people want to follow. And they will obey his command. Also when you add
fact that he provide security and food for them that counts too.
I was once in their nest, or headquarters if you like to call it like
that. That was place like taken from weird fairy tales, or like some
drug induced nightmare.
