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Okay, I haven't asked about this at other forums because I usually dont care for the responses. I'll give it a shot here though.
It is a pretty long story and I will skip all of the back story for your sake and mine.
Of course a girl is involved. And no it really wasn't my fault. I promise. I will PM more details to avoid them being on the open net if you care that much.
In the end, I was getting threatening calls and actions from this guy (we'll call him Fred). He was on a lot of methanphetamines and as much alcohol as he could afford. He was a loose cannon. Note I'm saying was because I haven't seen him in years. I mean loose cannon too. I saw him beat someone once with no provocation at all. He beat up one of his "friends" at the time. It seems he had trouble deciding when the fight was over too since my brother saw him and one of his buddies hold a guy on the ground while another kicked him in the head repeatedly with steel toed boots. Yeah, that kind of dude. And that kind of friends too.
So he got what was my cell number at the time and left several threatening messages. In one message he said that he was going to shoot me. The other problem is that Fred is actually pretty intelligent when he's sober. He never threatened to kill me, just shoot me. He also blocked his number on that call so I had no way to prove it was him. Okay, so the guy wants to kill me and may just be crazy and drugged out enough to try it. He had very little to live for at the time (I hope that has changed by now). BTW I had zero firearms at the time. That's much different now.
My question is this. Let's just say that we see each other later today. I think he will still be very ill about what happened and depending on his habits recently, he may be loosely based in our reality. What would you do? I'm not going to draw down on him right off of the bat, he might be walking up to apologize. He also might be walking up to beat me to death. I am no match for this guy when it comes to a fist fight. I also don't have very much confidence in my abilities to fire effectively while I'm being kicked and on the ground.
I know it's a complicated scenario and I hope I've said enough for some of you to answer instead of question.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful replies.
It is a pretty long story and I will skip all of the back story for your sake and mine.
Of course a girl is involved. And no it really wasn't my fault. I promise. I will PM more details to avoid them being on the open net if you care that much.
In the end, I was getting threatening calls and actions from this guy (we'll call him Fred). He was on a lot of methanphetamines and as much alcohol as he could afford. He was a loose cannon. Note I'm saying was because I haven't seen him in years. I mean loose cannon too. I saw him beat someone once with no provocation at all. He beat up one of his "friends" at the time. It seems he had trouble deciding when the fight was over too since my brother saw him and one of his buddies hold a guy on the ground while another kicked him in the head repeatedly with steel toed boots. Yeah, that kind of dude. And that kind of friends too.
So he got what was my cell number at the time and left several threatening messages. In one message he said that he was going to shoot me. The other problem is that Fred is actually pretty intelligent when he's sober. He never threatened to kill me, just shoot me. He also blocked his number on that call so I had no way to prove it was him. Okay, so the guy wants to kill me and may just be crazy and drugged out enough to try it. He had very little to live for at the time (I hope that has changed by now). BTW I had zero firearms at the time. That's much different now.
My question is this. Let's just say that we see each other later today. I think he will still be very ill about what happened and depending on his habits recently, he may be loosely based in our reality. What would you do? I'm not going to draw down on him right off of the bat, he might be walking up to apologize. He also might be walking up to beat me to death. I am no match for this guy when it comes to a fist fight. I also don't have very much confidence in my abilities to fire effectively while I'm being kicked and on the ground.
I know it's a complicated scenario and I hope I've said enough for some of you to answer instead of question.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful replies.