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People are forgetting the obvious option.

Throw the ex wife at the BG

He waited a few more seconds, then reached over and touched my arm again. "I need a ride home to Oak Cliff"
Me: "Sorry, going the opposite way"

There's the problem right there - wierdo was from Oak Cliff? As in the part of Dallas, TX called Oak Cliff? Most likely a crack or meth-head. Think I'm over-exaggerating? Try driving through there once.

Wait,

You ask me not to respond and then you guess what my response will be?

Someone's going to be walking with half a pair on...

Gitkikka wrote:

He waited a few more seconds, then reached over and touched my arm again. "I need a ride home to Oak Cliff"
Me: "Sorry, going the opposite way"

There's the problem right there - wierdo was from Oak Cliff? As in the part of Dallas, TX called Oak Cliff? Most likely a crack or meth-head. Think I'm over-exaggerating? Try driving through there once.

yes as in part of Dallas.

Malf what are you on about?

I would have shouted, 'Look you young baum, just feck orf will you?' Had he declined my polite request, fisticuffs with my concealed knuckleduster may have been in order.

Now thats right proppa!

barlio wrote:Funnel Cakes are so bad, yet sooo good. We've gone out of the way on more than one occasion to make/buy a funnel cake. I guess that's a Midwest thing as well. I've had them since I was a kid.

LOL. Hardly a Midwest thing. It's a Pennsylvania Dutch thing that moved west.

Back on topic, I dunno what the poster coulda done differently. On the other hand, I'm not sure the gun made a difference.

Frazzled wrote:Something I just read. To everyone except Malfred, how would you handle this? (I should be clear this is not moi-just read the event)

Frazzled surmises:
Malfred: socks....do you have any socks...

Well, you might actually be the guy they are talking about.

"I need a ride, and do you have any spare socks?"

If I was in that situation I would've called the police especially after he's continued to follow and harass my party. However I would've warned I would call the cops and made sure my party had a good witness account of what was going on.

Pulling out a gun when you're not going to shoot to kill is a bad move although understandable however it could've made the situation much worse especially in the subsequent stalking.

Call the police, get this incident on file, and get a restraining order. Pretty easy to do although it will eat up some time, well worth it though since this guy doesn't understand 'no' and kept following. Having this on file will help if the party ran into this guy again.

I looked up funnel cake.

WTF IS IT NOT FUNNEL SHAPED???

Well it was originally named so during the war of 1812, to protect its secrets from the evil British, much like they would later call armored vehicles "tanks" to not alert the German spies.

Frazzled wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:This is obviously a made up story, by someone who wanted to sound like a great hero.

I mean, someone acting strange but not outright threatening! Who then creeps someone out!

People like that don't exist in real life, they only exist in over-the-top action movies.

That part's actually not correct. I've ran into several creepy homeless people in Houston, especially since Katrina.
Again this is not my story, just a scenario.
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You sure you're not just bumping into thrown out Mirrors?

Kilkrazy wrote:I looked up funnel cake.

WTF IS IT NOT FUNNEL SHAPED???

Um...it's called that because you use a funnel-shaped thing to pour the batter.

Funnel cake is one of the greatest carnie foods around, but it just can't beat a good old fashioned deep fried candy bar. You take a Snickers or milky way, put it on a stick, dunk it in funnel cake batter, then deep fry for 3 minutes. Ignore the chest pains you get after you eat it, that's normal.

gorgon wrote:

barlio wrote:Funnel Cakes are so bad, yet sooo good. We've gone out of the way on more than one occasion to make/buy a funnel cake. I guess that's a Midwest thing as well. I've had them since I was a kid.

LOL. Hardly a Midwest thing. It's a Pennsylvania Dutch thing that moved west.

*bows to funnel cake knowledge*

I should have known this, my family on my dad's side descended from the Amish in Pennsylvania, but oh well I'll leave food knowledge and trivia to Alton Brown.

I bet your doctor loves you Necros.

That's triple bypass food if I ever saw it.

I plan to serve em as a desert if I ever open that burger joint I've been planning to do .. But they'll be mini-sized candy bars so you get like 4 of em. Milky Way Poppers FTW!!

@barlio: Hey, you still win a point for being a fan. Although how can you go wrong with fried batter covered in powdered sugar...which some people top with ice cream? 5000 calories can't be wrong!

I have Mennonite relatives, although they're not in one of the stricter orders (i.e. they don't dress similarly to Amish, etc.). I sure miss my grandmother's desserts...just ridiculously good stuff.

Now if anyone else here is actually familiar with opera fudge, I'll give them a no-prize.

Necros, you might be on to something there.

@gorgon: Do you happen to know any Barleys (or Bahrles)?

I'm seriously in the mood to have a Funnel Cake now. I've got every thing we need for it.

Who knows what 'Tablet' is?

@kilkrazy - it's what half of these chaps are gonna have to take for heart disease in a couple of years. Arf!

Sure you can have a ride, Now i hadnt got any seats, so your gonna have to hold on REAL tight, oh and mind panda, hes almost extinct....hahhahahhahahah, errr,i'm covered in powdered sugar. should of mentioned im a narcalepti....snore...

I'm called out? Gah.

I think the OP did pretty well, all things considered. CCW was a huge help, I'm sure.

If it were me, I'd have seriously considered getting uncle LEO involved, as he's stalking and we felt threatened. Maybe get LEO to push a DIP on him.

I probably wouldn't had everyone into the garage without having the guy collared, or at least blocking - out of public view, stuff can turn very quickly.

Still in the heat of the moment, I think the OP did very well. Kept his cool, remembered his defense, kept control of the situation.

I don't carry a gun, but if confronted with this situation I probably would have looked around to see if he had any friends waiting to roll me. I'm alsways suspicious of the jump. If he did then I call for backup, if no then I bang his eyes out a bit and teach him not to be such a dick.

If I was in that situation and had the ex-gf handy I would have thrown her at him and then he could have dealt with the nagging and bs coming out of her mouth.

Or is that too inhumane?

Know you not of the pain that I have know of...



Well... I guess you know now...

Kilkrazy wrote:Who knows what 'Tablet' is?

YES!!!!

It's sugar, sweetened condensed milk and something else. I can't remember, I haven't had it in years.

@Necros: Deep fried Mars bars are godlike...