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Originally Posted by Brianna
(*muses*)
Has anyone here ever shot a person?
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No, but I've come closer than I'd ever like, considering it might be a present possibility that I'd have to cap a roomie who was going crazy. Didn't like it. Really didn't like it.
There was a hollow-core door between me and Crazy Neil the Roomie, acting -- well, living up to that name. If he'd started kicking that door in...
Some months earlier, he'd suggested he'd like to buy one of my guns -- not being Army- nor Marine-trained he didn't say
rifle or
pistol. Wasn't much likelihood a cokehead like Crazy Neil would have ever been either, really. I didn't take him up on the idea.
Then he committed what I suppose was simple assault -- on the person of the mayor of Laurel, Maryland. He got brought home in squad cars a couple of times, separately from this, having made himself an absolute plague to a couple of different police departments, though I never knew the details.
Not too long after that, Crazy Neil was prevailed upon to check himself in to Saint Elizabeth's -- the Washington DC-area mental-hygiene hospital. This disembarrassed me and a couple other roomies of a real pest. Crazy people with keys to your place ain't a good thing.