A man armed with a machete was shot by a security guard after he threatened shoppers at a Little Havana supermarket Wednesday night, police said.
It happened about 9:45 p.m. at the Presidente Supermarket on Southwest Eighth Street.
Miami police said Hector Hechavarria was armed with a machete when he was threatening several patrons at the store.
Police said he whacked a woman with the blade of his machete and an armed security guard tried to intervene, but Hechavarria hit him on the head, so the security guard shot him several times.
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Having been the witness of two machete incidents, I can tell you those things do not leave pretty Hollywood-type wounds. A machete, specially if it is sharpened by somebody who knows how to, is a formidable and very fast weapon capable of disposing of limbs with one strike. And with a machete, Tueller is pretty much shortened by a whole three feet.
I apologize for yanking you a little off-topic, but Tueller’s experiments were important for showing people the need to evaluate threats, and their own readiness to meet those threats, realistically. They were not really about any particular distance. One sees “Tueller” used too often as if it meant some kind of measuring stick, or the placing of a “red line”.
That is why I linked directly to Tueller’s own article. And experience has taught me that even though more distance is “more better”, having objects blocking the path also help. Or going vertical…. One day I have to write about that since it is related to the second machete “dance” I saw.
I am a surveyor – I use and know how to sharpen a machete. I would rather face a gun than a machete.
It’s not the machete, the gun, the knife, or the club. It is the person and their intent that matters. As a surveyor you have probably carried, used, and maintained all of the above. And never injured an innocent. In your hands these are useful tools. In a bad guy’s hands, they are dangerous weapons.
That is the difference, and the gun control gangs just do not and absolutely refuse to understand.
Miguel: I should have figured you knew. I now recall your posting of a video from South America showing some policemen suffering severe consequences for being too casual about a frenzied man brandishing a knife. I’ve just heard too many guys mention Tueller as if it was short for “21 feet” instead of one example of how the bottom can drop out more quickly than you might realize.
Yeah, Tueller is the Gun version of the Gun Free Zone force field. The best reminder of what a man can do with a knife is a comment I heard (second hand) from Instructor Randy Cain about Anything-with-a-blade expert Steve Tarani. It goes something like this: “The only way I’ll face Tarani carrying a knife is if I have a rifle and I am 100 yards away.” or words to that effect. 😀