Self-Defense Story.

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Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force

Hmm lessee here... 4 to 1 and the four were armed with knives (deadly weapons) and they threatened to rape two women...

excessive? NAAAHH! Appropriate I think. WTG doc!
 

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Sadly, if it is proven that he chased the men down rather than dispatched them on premises, he could be in deep doodoo.

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Two things are a real disappointment here to me. (other than the fact that any of this happened) The first is that he may go to prison. The second is that he was injured. The bad guys got what was coming to them. :D
 
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The current (Dec. 2003) issue of Black Belt has a brief article on Ryan Leigh Jones, 20 yrs., who apparently killed an attacker in a parking lot using a "spin kick" and is now in custody.
 
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An article in today's Indianapolis Star

When Kniess, who was drinking at the bar, approached Rosales and asked if he would sell the hat he was wearing. Rosales said no.

Other patrons said they didn't hear any quarrel or scuffle, just a "pop," which police said was Kniess hitting Rosales on the top of his head, court records said. The blow dropped Rosales to the floor, which was when the patrons turned around and heard Kniess say, "Don't look at me like that again."

It sounds as though he died from a single punch (or from the fall that followed it). People don't realize how often a single punch kills--often from the resulting fall.
 
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Well, Rosales shouldn't have looked at Kniess that way...
 

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Well, Rosales shouldn't have looked at Kniess that way...
I'm taking that as tongue in cheek. The fact that a punch was thrown simply for a "look" sends a message that this guy is seriously messed up as well as a good reminder to us all that there are not always a plethora of clues that you are about to be in an altercation.
 

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Well I think it's fair to say that it's a good "heads-up" for us that when a stranger approaches us and asks us an odd ball question like that we don't let our guard down and/or turn our back on the person. You never know what they're thinking or their present mental state.
I've had this happen in the (far) past in homeless shelters where "street-idjits" ask an odd-ball question and if the answer wasn't satisfactory (to them) then "you're gonna get it now sucka!" and thus self-defense training comes in handy.

It's a messed up world and the vaccum cleaner is still broken.

:rolleyes:
 
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My tongue is always in my cheek... unless I'm, ehm, performing cunnilingus.

If some idiot approaches you, it's best that you keep him in [at least peripheral] sight... You never know when some retard decides you require a pounding for 'insulting' him [or her].
 

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Originally posted by Reprobate
My tongue is always in my cheek... unless I'm, ehm, performing cunnilingus.

If some idiot approaches you, it's best that you keep him in [at least peripheral] sight... You never know when some retard decides you require a pounding for 'insulting' him [or her].
What are you from Amsterdam or somthing! we got kids reading this stuff. :eek:
 
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After discussion by the Mod. Team, we've added a word to the filter.

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Originally posted by Touch'O'Death
What are you from Amsterdam or somthing! we got kids reading this stuff. :eek:
That's why I used the technical term. Besides, children know more than you know, these days...

Two five-year old girls walk to school and one says to the other: "You know, yesterday I found a pessary on the veranda."
Says the other: "What's a veranda?"
 
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Originally posted by Reprobate
Besides, children know more than you know, these days...

Yes, I find this out more and more with my kids! It's depressing.

Definitely a lesson in awareness to be taken from the hat story.
 

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Veranda- A porch or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. Also called gallery.
Pessary umm uhh well lessee how to explain it best politly uh well
look it up here
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
 

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