In my youth circa 1971 I had someone come at me with a knife one night while walking home from work. I had to take a side trip to let the PD know where I had left him on the ground. I was actually unarmed at the time until I got his knife of course but it was a really cheap switchblade and I gave it to the cops. Of course that was right after I got discharged from the USN and I actually enjoyed the exercise. Since the kid who cam eat me was a juvenile and had a lot of broken bones after the fact the cops decided he had learned his lesson about trying armed robbery.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Best education that kid ever got IMHO.........and lived to understand it hopefully.
Reminds me of a time when I was wading through the NCO club at Vicenza Italy (509th Airborne unit) and had a case of beer under each arm. One of my troops former Army type jumped up on a table and yelled that "the only thing that falls from the sky was pigeon shit and fools" then quickly pointed at me as the one who said it.......
Talk abou a deer in the headlights look............. you'd be amazed how fast a zoomie EOD troop can run "with out dropping the two cases of beer I might add" when chased by a stick of mad paratroopers.
Yes I did get back at my "buddy"........anoughter story.
Stay Safe !