Oh F*CK, need advice urgently.

[Wlfgng]

move (at least temporarily) , get armed... in that order


and get new fishing hooks.. I hate the barbed ones

[weazel]

Melt one end closed, fill it with wet sand and melt that end closed.

Carry it in your coat sleeve, if they come at you with a knife 1st break the arm holding the knife then wrap it around the bastards head, he won't get up......

[GRUNHERZ]

Why wet  weazel, more weight?

[StSanta]

Thanks for the advice guys. Unfortunately I'm in a desperate financial situation, having to subside on what little money I've saved uup because I am not eligible for welfare and has just gotten my degree (have applied for jobs, but it takes two or three weeks for them to go through the applications).

I'll talk to my bank and see if I can borrow money, and then order a knife resistant vest from some US company. Any suggestions on where to get it?

Will arm myself. Moving out is going to be more difficult. I'll call my brother in Sweden and I could  stay at his place, but applying for jobs would be hard since their answers would be mailed to where I live now. It's probably what I'll do anyhow.

Toad, no. Am not trolling, this is real. Sure, she might just be drunk and utter things, but the fact that she showed up at my place with her friends and her prior convictions means I have to honour the threat.

Gonna talk to a neighbor about getting a gun. I only go out to get food, play tennis, skydive or scuba dive, so there's no chance of encountering her in a social gathering.

Good info on the garden hose. Will do that tomorrow.

Thanks for advice on talking to my HA connected people. I know how little Somalis value life, and that's exactly why I am worried. She'll go to jail for a month starting on Monday (if she shows up at the jail that is) so if I can make it to that day and she goes, I'll have a month to get set up. Doubt she'll get the two guys to do it without her. But she might.

F*ck. I don't like this at all.

[Drunky]

Wet sand is more 'solid' than dry sand.  Dry sand has more give in it.  Plus it does add more weight.

I think Eastwood used a sock with quaters in it also.

USCavalry is one place that sells vests online.

[Wotan]

I have seem pics of them Somalis they look as tough as an Ethiopian. By her some booze and some UN groul and she may love you long time.........

Knives? are you sure see aint British? Check her teeth............

[Gman]

Tolerance, understanding and diversity will save the day!

Just explain to your assailants that you understand their plight, that you revel in the diversity they bring to your country, and you're more than happy to tolerate anything they do or say, because your ancestors at one time may have enslaved theirs.

Also, singing kumbaya and we are the world tends to alleviate such greivous situations.

[Wlfgng]

Santa.. tend your line

[weazel]

Hit someone in the head and it will wrap around crushing their skull.

It's an old <1950s> gangbanger weapon, in a pinch you can snap a car antenna off and wreak some havoc on them too.

More weight grunherz.

[Kieran]

Beetle is notable by his absence.

[GRUNHERZ]

Agreed, beetle must be very confused now.

Shit Santa ol buddy this sounds serious. I think it's best you move away from this nutbag and the area if you can. In the meantime maybe arrange for some friends to be with you whenerver possible, I think its much more likely they will try to hit you when your'e alone. Try to get armed somehow but be smart about it and dont get into trouble that way.

[capt. apathy]

as I was taugh as a child- improvise and overcome, use a little imagination.  look around your apartment for tools to defend yourself.  

it's not hard to find a leathal or at least incapacitating weapon.  

use a little situational awareness.-
look at where you go through your day and the vulnerable spots in this situation.

if you are worried about legal prosicution find different forms of protection for different places/times throughout your day.  something you can justify having on hand after the job is done.

let me stress that what follows is NOT a recomindation.
but just to get you started here are a few things that I would hate to have used on me.
1. oven cleaner
2. spray paint (auto touch-up paint comes in pocket sized 4 oz cans)
3. Raid wasp and hornet spray (sprays a poison very chemicly simular to nerve gas, in a 12' focused stream)
4. a sock with a bar of soap in it

you can get any one of these for about 6 bucks

most come with the warning 'illeagle to use for purposes inconsistent with labeling' so there is no way I would recomend using these for deffence (would be ileagle you know).

on the other hand it is far better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6

[lord dolf vader]

get a really good motorcycle jacket ( yall have the biker type with chain mail in um ? ) will turn 90 % of knives lessen damage from them that get thru.


get a big diddlying shiny bowie knife live with it in your boot.  then you see um you kill um. in my experience every black dude sees a white guy commin with murder in his eyes looses interest. chicken toejams to a man.


welcome to texas.

[Curval]

Originally posted by Hortlund
And move to another part of town.

Do this...change your phone number and keep it unlisted.

You are gonna look funny heading for the tennis court in a Kevlar vest.

Get yourself a heavy walking stick...one that would crush skinny bones...and carry it with you.  Something that if swung in a wide circle would prevent anyone getting close enough to use a knife.

Be careful with the gun, if you get one.  Shooting a by-stander would be a bummer, to say the least.  My pistol skills are seriously lacking...just ask Swoop.  Are you confident you can kill someone at 25 yards or even much less?  It ain't as easy as it looks on TV.   Many of the guys here have been shooting guns since they could walk and I am supremley condent that they would hit someone at this distance...as long as the target stood nice and still and didn't put any pressure on you...such as running at you with a knife.  Can you say the same man?

[Wlfgng]

you can always go for the "Bad Boy" weapon...

pillow case with a few unopened cans of soda
or
rolls of quarters in pillow case or sock