Hunger Games 4

[Jerry]

An unfortunate disregard for the law and a short temper land you in a dilemma to either expose your crime or risk severe injury.




You are 17 and you live in Florida.
With family problems and being a bit of a social loner, your tolerance for other people's attitudes is pretty low. One evening while returning from a friend's house, some random driver nearly hits you with his van as you cross a street. He yells a colorful comment to you, you yell a few descriptive adjectives back, next thing you know this guy is following you down the road.

While it's clear that you like to run your mouth just to be a ****, the driver is apparently not just irate but perhaps intoxicated and/or on drugs. The verbal back and forth continues for a couple minutes, and then the driver get's out with a bat, screaming threats to bash your head in and quickly moving in.

You are illegally carrying a loaded concealed handgun and this guy is right on you with a bat. You cannot escape without getting hit at least once, and the driver would certainly run after you.

What do you do?

Spoiler

"Stand your ground" law cited as Fla. prosecutors decline to charge 17-year-old with killing man, 40

 

[Morrigi]

Well they're sticking with the other charges. Honestly, if someone came at me and my friends with a weapon I would feel threatened with the bodily harm of myself and the others mentioned. Under Florida law, deadly force is a valid and legal option in this situation.

That said, mistakes were made on both sides. Jacobs was an utter moron for potentially driving intoxicated, the kid made a dumb move by arguing with him, and Jacobs was idiotic to the point of a Darwin Award to pull out a weapon as an aggressor in the state of Florida. Have we learned nothing?

 

[Surtr]

I put two in his chest.

 

[CRUE CAB]

Shoot, but be prepared to at least lose your gun, end up in Juvi and may be charged as an adult.
But at 17 I would hope that you can out run a drunk with a ball bat.

 

[ttwtt78640]

An unfortunate disregard for the law and a short temper land you in a dilemma to either expose your crime or risk severe injury.

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You are 17 and you live in Florida.
With family problems and being a bit of a social loner, your tolerance for other people's attitudes is pretty low. One evening while returning from a friend's house, some random driver nearly hits you with his van as you cross a street. He yells a colorful comment to you, you yell a few descriptive adjectives back, next thing you know this guy is following you down the road.

While it's clear that you like to run your mouth just to be a ****, the driver is apparently not just irate but perhaps intoxicated and/or on drugs. The verbal back and forth continues for a couple minutes, and then the driver get's out with a bat, screaming threats to bash your head in and quickly moving in.

You are illegally carrying a loaded concealed handgun and this guy is right on you with a bat. You cannot escape without getting hit at least once, and the driver would certainly run after you.

What do you do?

Spoiler

"Stand your ground" law cited as Fla. prosecutors decline to charge 17-year-old with killing man, 40

Yep. In Floriduh it is OK to taunt and then shoot anyone that may object to being taunted, if you "reasonably believe" that you have really ticked them off.

 

[MaggieD]

An unfortunate disregard for the law and a short temper land you in a dilemma to either expose your crime or risk severe injury.

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You are 17 and you live in Florida.
With family problems and being a bit of a social loner, your tolerance for other people's attitudes is pretty low. One evening while returning from a friend's house, some random driver nearly hits you with his van as you cross a street. He yells a colorful comment to you, you yell a few descriptive adjectives back, next thing you know this guy is following you down the road.

While it's clear that you like to run your mouth just to be a ****, the driver is apparently not just irate but perhaps intoxicated and/or on drugs. The verbal back and forth continues for a couple minutes, and then the driver get's out with a bat, screaming threats to bash your head in and quickly moving in.

You are illegally carrying a loaded concealed handgun and this guy is right on you with a bat. You cannot escape without getting hit at least once, and the driver would certainly run after you.

What do you do?

Spoiler

"Stand your ground" law cited as Fla. prosecutors decline to charge 17-year-old with killing man, 40

At the first sign of being followed, I would input the nearest police station into my GPS and drive to it. I'd get 911 on the phone and ask them to stay with me. If I got blocked in somehow before I got there, and this guy was approaching my car with his bat, I'd draw my illegal gun and be prepared to shoot him through the driver-side window if he approached it. Then I'd turn myself in. I'd then be prepared to spend $25K defending myself.

Damn it!!! I didn't read carefully enough. If was on foot. In that case, I'd just shoot him as he came at me.