Posted on 10/04/2005 6:03:12 AM PDT by aculeus
When the masked man attacked them inside their bedroom in the middle of the night Sunday, the twin 10-year-old girls responded just as they had been taught in their martial arts class: They fought back.
The commotion woke their parents, who rushed in and thought they recognized the tall, ponytailed intruder. The girls' father whacked him with the base of a table lamp and yanked off part of his mask. As the intruder ran from the Vienna townhouse, the parents were pretty sure it was "Andy," an instructor at Mountain Kim Martial Arts studio in Vienna, where their daughters take classes every week, the mother told police.
Hours later, Andrew Jacobs, 42, a part-time instructor at the studio who holds a black belt, was arrested at the brick house he shares with his sister, not far from the girls' home. Yesterday, he appeared in court, with a black eye and bruises on his face, on charges of assault, attempted abduction and burglary. A judge ordered him held without bond.
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We've gone this round before. I still don't agree, and I'm not likely to ever agree in this lifetime.
"We've gone this round before."
Then why did you bring it up again, a month after the thread went idle?
BTW, people deciding that it's okay to disregard traditional ideas of good manners is one of the things that is wrong with Western Civilization.
Amen. 90% of men will overpower 90% of women physically, in addition to pwning them in just about every intellectual feat. It's a harsh reality.
It's like scab you're not supposed to play with. On an adult level, I know that your extreme superficiality and slavish devotion to conformity is entirely you business, and that it shouldn't bother me in the least, but like all scabs, it itches a bit.
You don't think very highly of women on any level do you?
No, what's bothering you is your suspicion that I'm right, and your awareness of what it would cost you to admit that.
Nope. I know without a doubt that it's what's inside that makes the man. I like the way I look, and just as importantly, my family does too. Well, it's important that my wife does anyway because....well...for obvious marital reasons. She obviously approves, as she gave me gift certificate to my favorite tattoo parlor for my birthday.
"I know without a doubt that it's what's inside that makes the man."
And what's inside shows on the outside.
I'm a woman. Don't mind me--I get frustrated when I don't make enough progress in weightlifting. ;o)
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