Michael V said:

I had to disarm two people (separately and on different days) at a mine I worked at overseas.

One was armed with a home-made ice pick and was attacking the (female) laboratory assayist.

The other was armed with a crow-bar and a sledge-hammer and was the strongest man at the mine. He had lost it and was wrecking the crib room because somebody had stolen his drink from the fridge.

Scary.

Well done Michael.