Why not? If she’da stood in the house and done her house work like I tolds her to, none of this woulda happened.
Cliche, but you never really know what you would do until it happens. I can post all sorts of hypotheticals, but I don’t really know what I would do and hope I never find out.
Er, you’d consider fighting fair and giving him a chance to hit you? How quaint…
It’s for the prosecutor.
That prosecutor would not have a long career in office.
Having said that, I will simply say that if someone attacked SWMBO, I would admire her technique as she educated him on his stupidity.
I can’t believe you guys didn’t see the twist coming.
The somebody assaulting your wife is YOU!
Yo, 'bows, your eyes don’t seem to be working so well…
- T’weren’t the OP that said “Here at least”, t’were the diego in post 8
- He then identified “Here” in post 24
FTR, you came in at post 38.
I’m not Stanislaus, but since he and I have the same attitude about this, let me try:
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I could shoot the guy. That would probably mean prison time for me, and that wouldn’t be good for my wife.
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I could sneak up on him and hit him over the head with something heavy enough to knock him out. Or sneak up on him and zap him with a taser.
Am I good enough at sneaking, and capable of acting quickly and accurately enough when the moment came, so this would work? It’s iffy. I’d guess a better-than-even chance that my target, at a minimum, gets to retaliate, which isn’t gonna work out well for me, even if he doesn’t come out of it well either. And a significant chance that he even gets in the first blow, in which case I’m pretty much cooked.
And of course, I could wind up being prosecuted for a successful attack, or my target might find out who beat him over the head and KO’d him, in which case I’d have opened my family up to the possibility of a continuing series of attacks and harassments from this guy.
Unless I’m capable of beating him so thoroughly that the idea of coming round and trying to harass me and mine makes him shit himself in fear (which isn’t gonna happen in this universe), I don’t see how attacking him is going to improve things for my wife, my family, or me.
And after TriPolar gets a lethal injection for killing the prosecutor, I’m sure his widow will find a more sensible guy for her next husband.
What, do you think anger will transform me into a ninja? How many successful ambushes do you think I’ve been part of in my life? Do you really think that, gripped as I am by a burning rage, I’m going to plan out a tactically proficient stealth assault?
When you think of all the things that would have to go right for me on the very first try to:
a) get close enough to a guy to
b) take an incapacitating swing at him
c) before he notices me,
it’s pretty clear that this is an enjoyable fantasy, not a practical course of action.
I mean, I like Batman too but I realise it’s fiction.
Dude. You really need to work on your Internet Tough Guyness if you expect to survive a thread like this.
From what I learned in the manliest weapon thread, the only proper answer to this hypothetical is to beat the perp to death with a flail made of the bloody, torn-off phalluses of the prosecutor and the local policemen.
That will learn 'em.
…they’ll be picking him out of my stool.
You’re going to eat him?! :eek:
How come you’re always such a fussy young man?
Deterrent, cost effective and environmentally friendly.
I am ‘whooshed’ or you are calling me a liar or they did base it on what happened, who would have related it to Hollywood(?), or…???
I would really like to know to help me with any further interaction with you on the SDMB or anywhere else.
I was hoping more for, pistols at dawn.
No, he’s right. It is a hell of a coincidence.
Pistols are for sissies. It’s cannons or nothing