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British grandfather describes how he helped overpower gunman | World news | The Guardian

When British IT consultant Chris Norman boarded a train at Amsterdam airport on his way back to France last Friday, he did not expect to find himself, just over an hour later, splattered with blood and pinning down a gunman as he tried to fasten a cable tie around the man’s hands with his teeth.

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British grandfather describes how he helped overpower gunman | World news | The Guardian

When British IT consultant Chris Norman boarded a train at Amsterdam airport on his way back to France last Friday, he did not expect to find himself, just over an hour later, splattered with blood and pinning down a gunman as he tried to fasten a cable tie around the man’s hands with his teeth.

Three things an IT consultant must carry in their tool-kit: cable ties, gaffer tape, and a hammer.

You can fix pretty much anything with those.

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He said: “My message to people is that if it does happen to you, be aware that there is a possibility to act. Don’t act completely rashly but, when the opportunity arises, for God’s sake jump in there.”

He added: “The thing that stands out is that you can’t wait. If you make a decision, if you see something like that and there is an opportunity, then act.

“I think the traditional advice that we’ve all grown up with over the last 30 or 40 years is don’t intervene, don’t do those kinds of things.

“Because I think the ways terrorists once operated was very different. They weren’t killing people to start off with. Whereas here they come in and they’re going to kill you, so you have to think about it differently.”