Reminds me of an incident that happened in high school.
Buddy of mine was sitting there, trying to get some work done. The class idiot kept bugging my buddy. My buddy told him to knock it of or else.
Class idiot didn’t and took a sharpened pencil to the thigh.
After the class idiot yelped about taking a pencil to the thigh, my buddy calmly said “I warned you.”
We used to take warnings like that seriously. In Angels Camp(true story, part of history)a man bought a red shirt(red shirts were considered bad back in the day, 1870s)and everyone he saw as he walked about town laughed at him. He told everyone he saw that the next person to laugh at his shirt would be shot. His best friend saw him and burst out with, "Where in the he** did you get that shirt?", the man pulled his pistol, stuck it in his friends mouth and fired. The judge trying the case dismissed it, saying that after all the man had warned everyone what would happen.
Think what a judge in today's BS PC world would do and say.