At some point when I was a kid, I decided I wanted to be a plumber when I grew up -- because I heard they had paid on-the-job training, which made way more sense to me than going to school for anything!
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2013 6:46:48 am PDT #29348 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kat - Jul 16, 2013 6:53:51 am PDT #29349 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sarameg, your story just makes me think how sometimes people who are creepy and evil and get off on power and abusing it try to become cops and if they fail become security guards. Ahem.
Where they chase after little kids in stores and Jaye has to stop him but she ends up saving his life by tasering him.
t /wonderfalls
Oh man. Day two of parking on the other side of campus. I wore better shoes today for walking a mile.
Also, I wonder if one could justifiably shoot and kill Zimmerman since he has genuinely a threat, having proven to be a threat, under Stand Your Ground.
le nubian - Jul 16, 2013 6:56:36 am PDT #29350 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
if there are no witnesses and you can lie and say he attacked you first, yes. you can claim self-defense.
Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2013 7:06:26 am PDT #29351 of 30001
brillig
I wonder what will happen when two people claim Stand Your Ground on each other? Or does somebody have to call dibs on the ground?
Jesse - Jul 16, 2013 7:13:58 am PDT #29352 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't think you have to wait for him to attack you if you are genuinely afraid, right? I would be afraid of him if I were a young black man.
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2013 7:17:03 am PDT #29353 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I wonder what will happen when two people claim Stand Your Ground on each other? Or does somebody have to call dibs on the ground?
Heh. Well if each person was afraid of the other person, I guess it'd be legal for each person to shoot the other.
Tom Scola - Jul 16, 2013 7:18:53 am PDT #29354 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
It's only legal if they slap each other with their gauntlets first.
brenda m - Jul 16, 2013 7:19:15 am PDT #29355 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's basically happened - there was at least one shoot out (i.e., dozens of bullets flying) and one person killed where noone could be charged at all because both sides claimed SD/SYG and it couldn't be proven who fired first. In Florida, natch.
brenda m - Jul 16, 2013 7:22:01 am PDT #29356 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
This is what really terrifies me - the confluence of the complete failure of any kind of gun control whatsoever with the simultaneous movement to add one more situation after another where it's a-ok to kill someone for the slightest of reasons. One or the other is bad enough - the two together are just a ghastly proposition.
Amy - Jul 16, 2013 7:22:50 am PDT #29357 of 30001
Because books.
both sides claimed SD/SYG and it couldn't be proven who fired first. In Florida, natch
That's terrifying.