CJ, I want to thank you for posting this earlier today. Sometimes it is amazing how the most mundane thing said can have such a profound impact on someones life.
Believe it or not, at least partially because of your statement, and others statements about it, I am not sitting in jail right now for felonious assault!
I was sitting here reading the forums and saw someone go into the back yard next door. (it's an empty house) I figured he might be going to take a leak or something because he looked like he might be homeless. After a little while, when he didn't come back, I went and checked on him. Just in time to grab his ankles as he was going through the window!
He was there to steal the piping in the house. He dove out the window and tried to come at me, which I blocked and took him down. That's when your statement came into play... my martial arts training consists soley of knowing how to disable and really hurt someone real quick. When I had him down, due to my health reasons, I knew a prolonged struggle was out of the question. So, I knew that if I wanted to keep him there until the cops arrived, I would have to disable him, and quickly, or let him go.
That's where thinking about your post, and then thinking about my past, and what I would have to do to him to detain him, made me think that that wasn't something I wanted to do. I kept feeling that I would be charged with something. After talking to the cops, I found out I would have been charged with felonious assault because it was not my house.
So, the guy got away on his bicycle, and I'm free to tell the story. Hate to think what might have happened if I hadn't been thinking about fighting and board breaking a little before that and just acted on instinct instead!
Now that the thread is totally derailed, what thickness of boards would you equate 1" of plywood to??
This is the post and Private Message I was referring to....
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