What do/should you do?

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and, just whip out your CCW. You still carry your 4" 500 right Alfred? [rofl]

I'm in bear county, so I need to carry a bear killing caliber. Since I know 9mm is too powerful for bear, I'm carry a 380acp.

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One must always bear in mind the dynamics between escalation and response:

The bum was walking down the street and there was no encounter and thus no need for response.
The bum then initiated the theft of the OP's property. (Escalation)
The OP confronted the bum with an appropriate challenge. (Response)
The bum yielded and the world was again at peace. (De-escalation and loss of necessity for further response)

Had the bum not yielded, it is he who is continuing to escalate the encounter, not the OP who (in theory, but we are in MA) is within his rights to appropriately respond to the incremental escalations of the bum with appropriate levels of response. Had the bum yielded but the OP continued to ramp up his confrontation or responded with an inappropriately high level of force, then it could be argued that the roles of escalation/response had in fact reversed.
 
My sarcasm meter tend to be on the high side. I hope every NES members have a great relax Labor Day weekend.

The incident did happen and no one or bear got hurt. The hippies still dancing freely and I'm still breathing free air.

Happy Labor Day greets from the free state of VT. I really can't wait to go back to my lovely state, MA.

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This is why you buy a cheap drop gun through the Bloomberg gun show loop hole.

Shoot the bum, drop the cheaply made gun show loop hole gun and call it self defense.[wink]

I can see Alfred now . "What I followed dick knob #2 advice . I fired warning shots over his head ."

Really he's shooting his ksg with dragons breath.
 
This is why you buy a cheap drop gun through the Bloomberg gun show loop hole.

Shoot the bum, drop the cheaply made gun show loop hole gun and call it self defense.[wink]
just ask a LEO to buy one from his ham sandwich stash.
 
i told lady atilla about this and she said she would have paid to see you handling it like alfred. just like "hey man what the ****? that's not yours, that's mine."
 
The following was just emailed by John Farnam regarding the potential danger of transients and the homeless:

3 Sept 13

This from a friend in UT:

"Early Sunday morning, a veteran police sergeant was shot to death during a
traffic stop in an upscale neighborhood (suburb of SLC).

He stopped his beat-car near a vehicle that was parked on the side of the
road in an awkward manor. A man and a woman were standing near the car.
Without warning, the male produced a pistol and opened fire on the officer,
still strapped in his seat.

The officer accelerated to get out of the line of fire, and tried to radio
for help. He lost consciousness and crashed into a tree three blocks
away. He was transported to a local hospital where he subsequently died.
Details on range, ammunition, number of shots fired, and impact point(s) were
not disclosed.

Church services were canceled, and residents were told to stay in their
homes, as hundreds of officers, from multiple jurisdictions, swarmed the area
in an effort to contain what some calculated could have been a shooting
spree

What was ultimately discovered was the couple, both shot, still near their
car. The male suspect apparently shot the officer first, then the woman,
and finally himself. Both the woman and the male suspect were seriously,
but not fatally, injured. They are both currently hospitalized.

Of course, local politicians immediately held a news conference, with all
the usual, hollow promises about those guilty of this crime being 'brought
to justice,' ad nauseam.

Both suspects were described as 'transients,' with the usual, 'routine'
extensive criminal histories."

Comment: These are the kind of unstable, ever-dangerous "habitual criminals
" who used to be confined to mental hospitals and prisons. Many are still
in prisons (thank Heaven!), but many others, like these two, are currently
at-large, and there is no fence between them and you!

The point is that we, police and non-police, need to continue to be
extremely cautious about such "transients," "homeless," and "
emotionally-disturbed." They are all unstable and can be exceedingly dangerous, even
homicidal, under the right circumstances, as we see.

Most look "harmless," and most usually are, but you only need to be
naively wrong once!

They need to be deliberately avoided. Approach, when necessary, must
always take place with appropriate caution. There is much you're not seeing!

When you don't know everything, you really don't know anything!

Stud poker players' axiom

/John


John S. Farnam
 
Video using your phone from a safe distance, be sure to inform him though.
Let him take whatever he wants, offer no resistance.
Give him money if that will make him go away
Make a full report to the pd, don't be a hero.


Seriously though, just say "get away from my bike" Most likely he will scurry away like a rat.
 
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