ganymede
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One night I was hiking in memery grove which is just a few blocks from down town Salt Lake where I live. (You may remember it's where they searched extensivly for both Lorrie Hacking and Ellizabeth Smart.) I was carring a 10 inch bowie knife in plain view on my side. I started hearing these screaming anamilistic howling noises. It was dark, maybe 12 o'clock in the morning and the only light was from the moon. The noises approached, they grew in volume and frequency. I unbuckled my knife. In the dim glow of the moon I could make out two men approaching me. They drew together and whispereed to each other. I moved the holster to my back so it would not be seen and unsheathed my blade. At 10 inches long and 3 inches wide it would be capable of delivering a massive wound chanel. They closed on my position watching me, the noises had stopped, I could only hear the sound of City Creek nearby, all my attention focused on what was about to happen. They were within five feet of me, now I could make out there faces. They were in there late 20's and looked scragly. My heart was racing. As the man nearest me came closest he lunged at me and screamed. My arm tightened I became ready to drive the the knife, upercut into his side. I had a split second, his body contacted with mine and I hesitated to end his life one second longer. And after he pushed his body against mine, he and his friend walked on and howled.
I remeber thinking that man ought to know how close he had just come to dieing. I yelled "what the **** is wrong with you? you almost died." he said "what?" and I showed him the knife. they kept walking after that not saying another word, and I didn't hear a howl the rest of the night.
I turned arround not long after that, once I was pretty sure I wouldnt catch up to them as they made their exit. I reflected upon what had happened. I was glad I had not stabed that man, we were in an area not accessable by ambulance and he surly would have bled to death in a few minuets. There is a lot of drug activity in the grove. There is also a lot of activity involving people into the occult. Pentagrahms and stick figures hanging from trees are not all that uncommon to find up there. Perhaps the men were drunk, perhaps they had taken LSD or some other halucinagen. Either way that man put him self into a very dangerous postion and is lucky I didnt react as many people would have done. because I did not stab him I don't have to go through the rest of my life wondering if i made the right decision.
Some might ask "What if his intentions had been more then just to frighten you and you missed your oppurtunity." Well hopefully I would have had time to do something about it, I guess I was waiting for him to hit me, do something to me so I would know his intentions. Deadly force isn't something to be taken lightly. I hope I don't have to make that decision agian. And if I do, I hope it will be the right one agian.
I remeber thinking that man ought to know how close he had just come to dieing. I yelled "what the **** is wrong with you? you almost died." he said "what?" and I showed him the knife. they kept walking after that not saying another word, and I didn't hear a howl the rest of the night.
I turned arround not long after that, once I was pretty sure I wouldnt catch up to them as they made their exit. I reflected upon what had happened. I was glad I had not stabed that man, we were in an area not accessable by ambulance and he surly would have bled to death in a few minuets. There is a lot of drug activity in the grove. There is also a lot of activity involving people into the occult. Pentagrahms and stick figures hanging from trees are not all that uncommon to find up there. Perhaps the men were drunk, perhaps they had taken LSD or some other halucinagen. Either way that man put him self into a very dangerous postion and is lucky I didnt react as many people would have done. because I did not stab him I don't have to go through the rest of my life wondering if i made the right decision.
Some might ask "What if his intentions had been more then just to frighten you and you missed your oppurtunity." Well hopefully I would have had time to do something about it, I guess I was waiting for him to hit me, do something to me so I would know his intentions. Deadly force isn't something to be taken lightly. I hope I don't have to make that decision agian. And if I do, I hope it will be the right one agian.