[thefactor]

um, correct me if i'm wrong, but in order for it to be vigilantism, a crime must have occured for the revenge to take place. what crime did this man commit?

was he an illegal alien?

[donna]

Well that’s interesting.

Does there have to be a law on the books that the authorities are not enforcing before a group can be called vigilante?

If that’s true, then vigilantism would be a good thing, wouldn’t it?

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

um, correct me if i'm wrong, but in order for it to be vigilantism, a crime must have occured for the revenge to take place. what crime did this man commit?

Um, the 'crime' only has to be a crime in the minds of the vigilante. Perhaps lynch mob would be a more apt discription, though I think they did not really muster up a full mob in this instance.