Some girlfriends were over the other week and we got to talking about this incident that happened when we were kids. There was a flasher roaming our neighbourhood. He flashed himself in front of me and one of my friends. I must have been 7 or 8 at the time. At around the same time there was also a man in the same neighbourhood who liked to stalk women. My mom came across him one night, as he was stalking this young woman who had come running up to my dad begging him for help. Since this was shortly after I had been flashed my mom got it into her head that the stalker was also the flasher. She became enraged and rather than run away she told him that he would now lose the very body part that he liked to go around showing little girls. With those words she ran inside the house to get a large knife. Unfortunately the man had run off by the time she came back out. All I can say is, GO MOM!
Then my girlfriends and I got to talking about how to best handle an attack by an onknown assailant. I said that having your keys in your hand while you're walking is a good idea because then you can stab him with the key. I've heard about women doing this. They said that if you do that then you will be the one who gets into trouble, not him. This to me is outrageous! Someone attacks me and if I defend myself I get charged? I told Nick about this and he said that even if the guy attacks you and you harm him, he's hardly likely to press charges and even if he did, it would make him look quite the fool wouldn't it since he was the one who attacked me in the first place. Also, how would he find you if you are strangers to each other? Would he take out an ad in the newspaper?
"Attention! You who shoved your key in my forehead as I was attacking you on Main St. on Tuesday night, please come forward. I would like to press charges aganst you."
Attacker
No, it probably won't happen that way. Even if it did, it still wouldn't stop me from trying to inflict as much damage as possible if I were to be assaulted. No idiotic law is going to dictate how I defend myself if someone tries to harm me. It's the law of jungle. Eat or be eaten. I someone wishes to do me harm, you better believe I'm going to try to harm him back. If the law expects me to run with my tail between my legs, which would assure that the guy gets away and will be free to do this to somebody else, it's sadly mistaken. Now I don't know how I would react in a situation like this. I may run, or I may fight, who knows. One will never until one is in the kind of situation. I would like to think that I would fight with every fibre of my being. It's my body and my integrity and no law in the world is going to tell me that I can't defend myself. I would never unprovoked hurt another human being and I hate violence, but if someone attacks me then he has forfeited his right to be treated like a human being.
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