Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Just a brief story in the Boston news, but the kind of good ending we'd like to hear more of. ================== A 39-year-old Boston man will be arraigned today for allegedly trying to kidnap a 10-year-old boy while the child was standing within earshot of his dad. The boy was in front of a CVS Pharmacy at 587 Boylston St. at 5 p.m. Saturday when David Johnson approached him from behind, put his jacket around him and tried to force him away, police said. The boy’s dad heard him scream and intervened. Johnson was arrested a short time later. <a href="http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=172605&srvc=home" target="_blank">http://news.bostonherald.com/l ocalRegional/view.bg?articleid=172605&srvc=home</a>
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder What I'd like to read is the Dad thoroughly beat the crap out of the creep.
Originally Posted By avromark Intervened could mean as much as he stared at the guy or as little as he rearranged the guys anatomy
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Originally Posted By RoadTrip I'll let God forgive him. Personally, I hope the Dad beat the crap out of him.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I'd be somewhat disappointed that God did forgive someone who harms a child, frankly. Some things just don't fly.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I keep a special can of Dad's Whoop Ass" tucked away for situations like that.
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Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder A brief long story short- back in the 80's, I arrested a guy for stealing men's suits. Turned out he was a gang member who didn't appreciate that and wanted to get back at me. He decided to follow me home from work, saw I lived with my girl friend, and elected to harm her as a way to get back at me. I came home one day to hear her screaming as he was dragging her back into our apartment. Talk about timing. I went ballistic, and absolutely massacred the guy. His face was unrecognizable. I kept at him until he was unconscious and was still on him when the cops showed up, who didn't know what was going on. They cuffed me, but once things were sorted out they unhooked me. I was offered another shot at the guy before the paramedics came. I took it, and frankly, it still feels good thinking about it. The girl friend left soon after, too shook up and afraid to live with me. I couldn't blame her.
Originally Posted By avromark ^^^ I Hope you never have to live through anything like that again, I hope I never have to experience anything like that.
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Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Jeez, SPP...I'm sure glad you got on the scene and were able to get your aggressions out on that piece of trash.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad SPP, are you the same as StillThewhatever that name was, I can't recall it.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "^^^ I Hope you never have to live through anything like that again, I hope I never have to experience anything like that." I hope you don't, either. In those days, we got threats all the time, some were nothing more than bluster, some very real. When I think of that episode, it's like it was an out of body experience. I just went berserk on the guy. We had stucco walls outside our apartment, and I kept smashing his face into it and then rubbing it all over the wall. There was a lot of blood. The guy invaded my space, my home and my girl friend, and he was going to pay. If the Dad in the story reacted against the kidnapper I can relate. Soooooo, everybody had dinner??
Originally Posted By avromark SingleParkPassholder you may want to check out BBC's Life On Mars, it's about a police officer who goes back in time (They hint he's in a coma) from modern day to the 70's when policing was slightly different.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <I was offered another shot at the guy before the paramedics came.> I gotta say, I just love that sentence. At my parents' house they have Naomi Judd's autobiography "Love Can Build a Bridge", and in one part she talks about how she and daughter Ashley (a pre-teen I think) were shopping in a store one day when they drifted apart. I can't remember if Naomi found Ashley or if Ashley came running to her mom, but she told her mom that a man was trying to do something to her, when suddenly a guy bolted for the door. Naomi yelled "STOP THAT MAN!" and male customers and employees were running after him, and they caught him in the parking lot. When Naomi got to him the cops were there too, and she reared back to punch him in the face. But get this, the cop stopped her---he said, "Ma'am, I wouldn't do that if I were you. He could press charges". Excuse me?? What kind of justice system do we have when a perverted CRIMINAL has a right to press charges on the wronged party?? How backwards is that?? Jeez, I'm not one for violence, but you'd think that any parent whose child was a victim or attempted victim would have the right to "teach a lesson"!
