Justify it however you want. If I owned a store, I'd shoot your ass.

true story from today.

I have a friend whose son owns a small recording studio. The son and his employee, thinking ahead, shrink-wrapped their (extremely expensive) electronics and put it under a tarp in a boat. They went home (across the street. Next morning they saw a couple of boneheads (named gotta and diesel, I suspect) dumping the gear over the side to steal the boat.

The son grabbed a floating 2x4 and beat the $hit out of one of the guys while the employee beat the $hit out of the other guy. Then they chained the two perps to the boat in th erain and rising water. Eventually a sheriff showed up.

The perps complained to the sheriff that they'd be killed and begged to be taken into custody. Sheriff said, "I don't give a $hit. If they'd killed you nobody would have cared." Then he hauled the two guys in.

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