Glad I watch my back.

[1911JMB]

Yesterday, I incountered the only person I ever believed I might have to kill. Back in high school vocational training, this lunatic dirt bag really wanted to fight me. Friends of his informed me that he is an accomplished streetfighter who would tear me up if we fought unarmed, and went on to tell me that if I beat him down, I would then have them to deal with. So I carried my framing hammer concealed down my wasteband, sometimes with another one concealed up my shirt. I figured, better I kill him than him hurt me real bad. Luckily that never happened, and eventually he was expelled for reasons not involving me.

Well, I was at the college I go to yesterday, and I saw him walking across the street. I always try to know my surroundings, and so I noticed him before he noticed me. Like before, I would not have hesitated to kill him if I was attacked. As always these days, I was carrying one of my applegate knives. I figured I ought to walk into his field of vision so that he would know I was going there too. That way, if anything was going to happen it would happen then and he wouldn't get me by surprise later.

Luck was once again on my side. When he noticed me, he walked over, and apologised for being a jerk to me in high school. He told me he had been to prison, and that he was now pretty much scared straight. We actually went on to have a good conversation.

Anyway, I just thought this was a good example of why you should always be mindful of your surroundings. You never know who you might bump into.

 

[jondar]

I'm glad your encounter turned out the way it did. Should he attempt to instigate further encounters or to "just talk over old times", you might be better off to just let sleeping dgs lie.

 

[1911JMB]

To continue speaking figuritively, the dogs not asleep, it got put down. The past is the past, and luckily for this guy, it looks like he might actually have a good future. But just the same, that is a good point. I certainly can't see he and I becoming friends or anything like that.

 

[answerguy]

Now aren't you glad you didn't start pummeling him with a hammer when he approached you?

Should you ever get into a similar situation, may I suggest that you only fight back to the point where the attack is stopped? You said you would be forced to kill him and I'm thinking that could take you past the point of self-defense into the realm of man-slaughter and get you in prison. For example you've knocked him out after he attacked you and you continue to bash him in the head. That's going to be frowned on, even if you didn't start the fight.

 

[1911JMB]

I'm not talking about using a hammer as a beating device. A large framing hammer's rip claw will easily penetrate the skull with one blow, and that was my plan. Just think, if Mike Tyson attacked you, would you want to end the fight as quickly as possible with one swift blow, or would you want to tap him on the head a few times until he stopped? I'm no mound of muscle, and that was the situation I was in.

Skilled street fighters are very dangerous, and the way I see it is, my life is worth more to me than an attacker's life. Its the same theory those of you that have CPLs adhere to.

 

[AnthonyRSS]

Skilled street fighters

That is kind of an oxymoron.

I have found that a lot of people change after high school, usually for the better. On a related note, some people are radically different when they aren't around there friends.

 

[michiganfan]

Good ending