- Joined
- Aug 26, 2000
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- 15
As you all know, the Internet is full of Kooks(tm) and stalkers and general nut cases. So when one of them threatened to come to my town to fight me, I called his bluff, sounded happy and excited to have a chance to fight someone in reasonably 'real combat', and mentioned I had a little sparring experience.
He wrote he wanted to 'rip open my chest', thus I took it as a half-decent challenge.
I replied, 'great, let's meet at so and so location'
He then replied 'well, ok, I promise no broken bones. Because I can explain a broken nose, but not a broken jaw, or limb'.
Well as they say in the 'Pepsi Challenge', the other side just "blinked".
Heck. So I thought and pondered and planned to say "well, don't bring your bones to where I can reach them, ha, ha".
But then I thought, 'this guy might be bigger than me, he might be crazier than me (that's be something, heh, heh). Maybe, I mused, I should arrange instead to meet him at the airport, um on the other side of the metal detector, just to be prudent'.
Then I thought some more, and realized, 'hey, the guy challenged gets to pick the weapons!!'
So then I mused and pondered and replied "OK. Choice of weapons, 'Brains'. I'll understand if you come 'unarmed'. Hah, hah." Then I closed with "maybe in the aftermath, we can sorta be friends and have a beer".
Still trying to lighten up a potentially, ah, serious situation, while still leaving open the options for some friendly bruising and stuff.
He replied 'you seem to know your stuff' Then at the end of the message he said 'Take care'.
Oh, heck, the guy isn't such a vicious lunatic after all. I had a good opportunity to crack skulls and I made a friend!
Since then he hasn't replied, and appears to have dropped the issue. Guess that's good.
Were he to reply and had the situation seemed more serious, I had another reply waiting in the wings, and of course, didn't really think I'd need it.
'Badger', I said to myself, 'if this guy really does outclass you and turns out to be some 6'5" giant ex-pro wrestler, what will you do'. So suddenly it hit me 'hey, I'll just say: "actually my choice of weapons will be the 1/4 inch single stick". I figure, I'm highly trained in that and the worst he could do is hit himself in the head trying to hit me, and it would be sort of an equalizer. Pretty durn clever, if I do say so myself. (duh).
All in all an interesting lesson, and I thought, handled fairly well by my end.
Oh the rest of the story: He ended up threatening another guy in email and the guy being an ex-LEO, turned him in to the cyber-crimes division for impersonating a 'Federal Investigator', (that's what he was telling people he was.) So guess he was a little, um one fry short of a happy meal.
<grin>
-B
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Life is but a brief Window of opportunity.
He wrote he wanted to 'rip open my chest', thus I took it as a half-decent challenge.
I replied, 'great, let's meet at so and so location'
He then replied 'well, ok, I promise no broken bones. Because I can explain a broken nose, but not a broken jaw, or limb'.
Well as they say in the 'Pepsi Challenge', the other side just "blinked".
Heck. So I thought and pondered and planned to say "well, don't bring your bones to where I can reach them, ha, ha".
But then I thought, 'this guy might be bigger than me, he might be crazier than me (that's be something, heh, heh). Maybe, I mused, I should arrange instead to meet him at the airport, um on the other side of the metal detector, just to be prudent'.
Then I thought some more, and realized, 'hey, the guy challenged gets to pick the weapons!!'
So then I mused and pondered and replied "OK. Choice of weapons, 'Brains'. I'll understand if you come 'unarmed'. Hah, hah." Then I closed with "maybe in the aftermath, we can sorta be friends and have a beer".
Still trying to lighten up a potentially, ah, serious situation, while still leaving open the options for some friendly bruising and stuff.
He replied 'you seem to know your stuff' Then at the end of the message he said 'Take care'.
Oh, heck, the guy isn't such a vicious lunatic after all. I had a good opportunity to crack skulls and I made a friend!
Since then he hasn't replied, and appears to have dropped the issue. Guess that's good.
Were he to reply and had the situation seemed more serious, I had another reply waiting in the wings, and of course, didn't really think I'd need it.
'Badger', I said to myself, 'if this guy really does outclass you and turns out to be some 6'5" giant ex-pro wrestler, what will you do'. So suddenly it hit me 'hey, I'll just say: "actually my choice of weapons will be the 1/4 inch single stick". I figure, I'm highly trained in that and the worst he could do is hit himself in the head trying to hit me, and it would be sort of an equalizer. Pretty durn clever, if I do say so myself. (duh).
All in all an interesting lesson, and I thought, handled fairly well by my end.
Oh the rest of the story: He ended up threatening another guy in email and the guy being an ex-LEO, turned him in to the cyber-crimes division for impersonating a 'Federal Investigator', (that's what he was telling people he was.) So guess he was a little, um one fry short of a happy meal.
<grin>
-B
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Life is but a brief Window of opportunity.
