Re: "There was no rage or anything. He was just like a robot stabbing the guy."

On Aug 6, 4:38 pm, "Wayne Dobson" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't believe that he gave off no signs of being strange.  Even if it's
not obvious, it's my experience that dangerous people always give off
something.  Those sorts of people get my attention, while everyone else is
trying to ignore them.

Read an article yesterday interviewing the people who came in contact
with him immediately before the bus ride. An odd-ball, yes -
apparently just sat on the bench waiting for the bus, and pretty much
not moving. Much more than that, no. And I would've expected people
to inflate their memories based on what they heard later, along the
lines of "yeah, the way he just stared into space, you could tell he
had murder on his mind."

But... nothing.

I would be very interested in seeing what you
consider effective training, since you consider mine to be of such
poor quality.

I don't know how you train.  I just know that your attitude could do with
some adjustment.

The line that Chas occasionally quotes
from his teachers is both good and germane: "if your opponent has a
knife, take 5 years off your training. If he's had the first lesson
on using the knife, take 10 years off your training."

I hope you are aware that that statement is figurative.

But of course.  Still has merit - the guy on the bus would've been an
absolute horror show for anyone to try and stop.

That's what I'm talking about.  That sort of scenario is plenty scary
enough, all by itself, without you adding to it with as many pessimistic
predictions as you're able to muster.

<shrug> At the best of times, fighting against a knife is a booger.
In general I'm an optimistic person, but in this situation about the
only thing missing that would make it worse would be Godzilla
attacking the highway at the same time.

Not if I kill him.

Yeah, and there's the crux of the matter: just how are you going to
kill him before he does that to you?

That's a very vague question.  What precisely do you feel makes it
impossible for me to achieve that?

You going to do it with your bare hands? If so, how? You going to do
it with a weapon? If so, what weapon do you expect you'll have with
you? You're the one who brought up killing him, so I assume you've
already got something in mind.

Badger North
www.youngforest.ca
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