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And I always thought you were a nice guy Glen!! But it sounds a fair thing to me. We should have that sort of justice in Aus.
------------------ Drane Signs Sunshine Coast Nambour, Qld. dranesig@dingoblue.net.au Downunder "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" - Confucius
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True story time: Five art lodge-buddies and me are drinking beers, 20 years ago in the dark alley behind one of their buildings on a hot summer night. Between two buildings and some 200 feet away we saw the dash light come on in one of the lodge members '64 Caddy. Obviously suspecting foul play, we all walk over quietly to witness one young punk under the dash trying to remove the cassette player with one leg hanging out the right front door. The owner of the car barked out to the kid that he come out immediately and face the mob. The punk slithered out with a screwdriver in one hand and a pocketknife in the other. Bry, the Caddy owner told him to drop the tools and to produce ID immediately. The punk instead, took a swing at Bry with the pocketknife, causing no damage. Bry, being a foot taller and at least a hundred pounds heavier, nelsoned the kid around and up against the car where somehow the window trim managed to accidently cut a most perceptable letter "T" in his forehead. Just then, the cops came up the alley and the punk managed to slip away and take off running. After several minutes of polite conversations with the officers, we were all congratulated for catching the would-be thief and remedying appropriate justice. The kid was never seen again and Bry never lost his stereo. To this day, I wonder if the kid was left with an indented T on his forehead as a reminder about being a thief?
I am not for vigilantiasm or ever taking the law into one's own hands, as this lesson taught me well. That knife could have really hurt someone and we were all drinking beers and our macho egos were erect. The kid could have been seriously injured and we all could have gotten into some very serious trouble as accomplices. OK, it all worked out well enough and no one really got very hurt, except the thief who today is probably reading this post and now knows where I live! Oh well. Hope it all works out! Guess is is time for another roadtrip?
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