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- From: robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Little pig, little pig, let me come in...
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 01:40:51 GMT
- Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
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- References: <1gtb9kINN82e@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec21.205753.3023@srg.srg.af.mil> <1992Dec24.061519.28698@reed.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec24.061519.28698@reed.edu> todd@reed.edu (Todd Ellner) writes:
- >So, let's see. The Psycho-ex-Boyfriend is trying to break down the door
- >and do our hero/ine.
-
- He stipulated several times, me first, then her.
-
- >What do you do?
-
- Hope the door holds.
-
- >It could be a really good reason to leave by the
- >back door/window/wall
-
- No back door. The bathroom window had security bars (crappy neighborhood).
-
- >and call the cops or a couple of friends from a nearby phone.
-
- She didn't want to call the cops (didn't want pot-growing next-door neighbors
- to get in trouble). Friends next door were only marginally useful.
-
- >If neither of these is practical I think it would be an
- >excellent, nay, textbook case of "Well officer, he was breaking into my
- >house.
-
- Wasn't my house.
-
- >I was in fear for my life, and I couldn't get away. Shucks, I just
- >had to {shoot|knife|behead|baseball bat} him as he came in."
-
- Much as I would have liked to, I had to defer to the wishes of the friend in
- whose apartment the aforemention events transpired. Predictably, she still
- wuvs him.
-
- >I really don't think the DA would prosecute.
-
- I have never had the opportunity to meet any member of the DA's office.
- I would prefer to keep it that way. That was, in fact, my overriding
- consideration at the time.
-
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