dh1633pm
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Sorry I didin't mean anything by it. Cars are really built so tight these days you can't use one of them wrenches and I was just joking about the pitch fork. One big misunderstanding.
Sorry I didin't mean anything by it. Cars are really built so tight these days you can't use one of them wrenches and I was just joking about the pitch fork. One big misunderstanding.
I’m glad you think it’s normal for a guy to carry a pitchfork around the store, ask people about killing a dog and making stabbing motions with it while in a store to a person you do not know and then pointing out how sharp the fork is and how the weight could break the dogs back. I talk with people all the time and could have b.s with him about tools all day long and listened to him rant. However, he lost me with the pitchfork rant. Your a special individual if you can come up with stabbing, twisting and break a dogs back with a yard tool.So what was the threat that has you so worked up? Nothing you stated indicates he demonstrated any actions that could be construed as dangerous. Maybe he is a bit addled and was looking for a little attention and the dog story was his attempt at conversation. You state that he started a conversation with another customer minus the pitchfork so if he was trying to intimidate someone he would have kept the pitchfork. Much ado about nothing.
I’m glad you think it’s normal for a guy to carry a pitchfork around the store, ask people about killing a dog and making stabbing motions with it while in a store to a person you do not know and then pointing out how sharp the fork is and how the weight could break the dogs back. I talk with people all the time and could have b.s with him about tools all day long and listened to him rant. However, he lost me with the pitchfork rant. Your a special individual if you can come up with stabbing, twisting and break a dogs back with a yard tool.
Never thought he was going to harm me but you always have to play the what if game now days.
I am really bothered by it today that it took me almost a day to realize that I put myself in harms way and never had a clue!
You're probably right, and I'm guessing he's just had one too many dogs crap on his lawn. But specifically saying something like that to a stranger is weird.Maybe, just maybe the guy lives in an area where some neighbors let their dogs run free and he does no want to or cant use a gun because he lives to close or in town. Just my speculation
You're probably right, and I'm guessing he's just had one too many dogs crap on his lawn. But specifically saying something like that to a stranger is weird.
If he isn't all there, or has violent tendencies, he may not be able to legally own a gun at all. But as we all know, those who intend harm, to any living thing, and are not in their right mind, will not let the absence of a firearm stop them.
A bale of hay..?Just made me wonder what the handy defense to a pitchfork would be...
But this was a normal, non threatening old man... waving a pitchfork in the guys face. Give me a tattooed dude with a pitchfork and I'd be on guard too. Point is that actions are what made it uncomfortable, not appearances......really?
....along with awareness, there is perception. Threats can be real, perceived or contrived.
....amount of risk many times comes down to a realistic assessment.
....what one sees as high risk, another may see as a perfectly normal scenario. Like being approached by someone with multiple tattoos.
....could be, the old fart was just messin' with you.
Sometimes people just want to talk to someone and feel like they are being heard. Maybe he was a widower and has kids that live far away and just needed to conversate with another human. Loneliness can make a person come across as too forward sometimes.
Stuff like this has happened to me lots of times. I never considered it a serious threat. Lots of crazy people in the world. Doesn't mean we have to react to all of them.
But this was a normal, non threatening old man... waving a pitchfork in the guys face. Give me a tattooed dude with a pitchfork and I'd be on guard too. Point is that actions are what made it uncomfortable, not appearances.
I kind of blew it off as just some crazy guy messing with people or a little out there and then it dawned on me. What if he attacked me and my friend with the pitch fork? What if he attacked customers with the pitch fork?
Maybe, just maybe the guy lives in an area where some neighbors let their dogs run free and he does no want to or cant use a gun because he lives to close or in town. Just my speculation