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Sorry if this is deemed "off-topic" - but it IS self-defense related, and as a CCW holder, I want to make sure to avoid doing anything illegal. For my OWN sake as well as CCWers as a whole...
The "subject" is the neighbor of my aunt and female cousin. The cousin has mentioned that he has made "unwelcome andvances" toward her for many years. It's generally thought that this freak has a screw loose, and it's STRONGLY suspected that he's a patient at a Methadone clinic. IE, "recovering" drug addict...
I don't know what he told her this morning, she wouldn't say and I don't think I WANT to know. He told her not to tell anyone later, but she informed him that she had already told a mutual family freind, her brother-in-law, and she was going to tell me, which she obviously did.
(I didn't say anything to HER about it, but even if it DOES scare him off a bit - I really wish she hadn't added "and he's just crazy enough to put a bullet in your head" to him regarding me...! :banghead: )
Here's where things get tricky...being married to such a POS, the guy's wife is regarded with much sympathy by my cousin. I spoke with her brother in law about getting the law involved, maybe a restraining order....
(I KNOW a R.O. isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but at least this way if the psycho DOES attack her, it'll be known that we TRIED to use "the system!)
...but he said that SHE wouldn't want his wife upset by finding out...! :banghead: :banghead: Great, huh? She dosen't really want ANYone finding out.
The brother-in-law thinks that if we just simply told him to "cut it out," he'd stay away. But I fear any of us (except for the mutual freind) talking to the guy for saying anything that might be taken as a threat - or even if we're as civil as can be, the creep could LIE about it and cause us trouble....
I need some advice, preferably more specific than "don't do anything stupid or illegal," and you guys are about the best source offhand I can think of for this sort of thing....
The "subject" is the neighbor of my aunt and female cousin. The cousin has mentioned that he has made "unwelcome andvances" toward her for many years. It's generally thought that this freak has a screw loose, and it's STRONGLY suspected that he's a patient at a Methadone clinic. IE, "recovering" drug addict...
I don't know what he told her this morning, she wouldn't say and I don't think I WANT to know. He told her not to tell anyone later, but she informed him that she had already told a mutual family freind, her brother-in-law, and she was going to tell me, which she obviously did.
(I didn't say anything to HER about it, but even if it DOES scare him off a bit - I really wish she hadn't added "and he's just crazy enough to put a bullet in your head" to him regarding me...! :banghead: )
Here's where things get tricky...being married to such a POS, the guy's wife is regarded with much sympathy by my cousin. I spoke with her brother in law about getting the law involved, maybe a restraining order....
(I KNOW a R.O. isn't worth the paper it's printed on, but at least this way if the psycho DOES attack her, it'll be known that we TRIED to use "the system!)
...but he said that SHE wouldn't want his wife upset by finding out...! :banghead: :banghead: Great, huh? She dosen't really want ANYone finding out.
The brother-in-law thinks that if we just simply told him to "cut it out," he'd stay away. But I fear any of us (except for the mutual freind) talking to the guy for saying anything that might be taken as a threat - or even if we're as civil as can be, the creep could LIE about it and cause us trouble....
I need some advice, preferably more specific than "don't do anything stupid or illegal," and you guys are about the best source offhand I can think of for this sort of thing....