Your co-worker is an idiot. He can file charges all by his widdle lonesome. It only takes a trip to a Courthouse to swear out a complaing.
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First off, that's tough to do from a hospital bed with your jaw wired shut and high on painkillers. Second it's a little bit late since the system is already in high gear for the actual attack. Third, this gentleman was pure sheep. I knew him just casually but he was a really nice, calm and unassuming gentleman who will probably suffer from PTSD for the rest of his natural life. He never returned to my school following his ordeal. Too scared. My students promptly asked me if I was too scared to come to work. I answered them thusly: Look, son. I'm too young to die and too old to take an A$$ whuppin' so.... I'm just gonna KILL YA. Their eyes always get the size of dinner plates and they whisper: Yeah, we sorta figured you'd say something like that. I never have problems like this. I still treat my students exactly like I treated my troops when I was on active duty as an army officer. It seems to work very well.