Posted on 03/03/2014 2:32:03 AM PST by servo1969
“Anyone who refuses gets the side of his car keyed with the metal frame of the squeegee.”
That’s a new one to me. The ones I’ve seen (admittedly only a couple in my life), threw their bucket of filthy water on the windshield if they didn’t get some spare change. Nasty, but less serious than a key job.
As for the prof’s argument - bleah. So much nonsense in that notion (they only do it to earn a living), I wouldn’t know where to begin.
Used to see this in France a lot. Same thing but little Algerian kids then.
In NYC they were called “squeegee monkeys” until the PC police stopped that; then Rudy Giuliani got rid of them anyway...
I was in a car where the driver simply stopped a few hundred yards from the red light and simply waited until it was green; much less confrontational.
The problem is the prof’s thinking, and that he is a prof.
Under DeBlasio-Wilhelm, they will be back soon.
I carry...every day.
This is NOT a defensive shooting situation. To even threaten someone with a hand gesture could cost me my permit.
It's more of an insurance claim situation.
“To even threaten someone with a hand gesture could cost me my permit.”
So....in your state “to brandish” includes imitating a gun with your fingers. A lot of kindergartners are looking at some hard time!
“Check you later.”
;^)
I agree with sonofagun: even simulating a gun in those circumstances shows a defective mindset, IMO. I suppose these days it could even be construed as assault. In any event, the “threat” did not rise to real danger except possibly to the paint.
TC
I am a woman who had a squeegee encounter of my own several years ago in Baltimore. I was stuck at a light on a late afternoon in summer. I shook my head as the fat kid dipped his squeegee in the bucket and approached my car.
He shrugged and laid the squeegee on the windshield of my little Geo Storm anyway. The streak of water rolling down the glass looked as if it had come out of a mud puddle.
I had the windows up, but I bellowed, “Get away from my car!”, and he did step back, fortunately. If he had not, I was prepared to gun through the red light.
These days, I am sure such thugs are emboldened, and I would get the Reginald Denny treatment. But I do not drive in Baltimore City anymore.
I knew one individual who came up with a great solution to the squeegee people. Since he rarely used his windshield washer, he asked his mechanic to replace the dual heal with a single spray, and point it to the left side of the car.
Thus, whenever a squeegee guy approached him, he would give him a long squirt of dollar store perfume. “Eau de Stench”, he called it. He said you then had to leave promptly, because their first reaction would be to kick your car.
Trivia bit about Charles Bronson. As a teenager, he worked in a coal mine, earning $1 per ton of coal mined. In the process he became extremely muscular, and he learned an unparalleled bar trick.
He would insert his thumb and small finger into a shot glass, and spread them enough to pick the glass up. Then he would spread them further, to break the glass.
Not "brandishing". Brandishing specifically relates to a weapon.
Intimidation does not.
IC 35-45-2-1...
(c) "Threat" means an expression, by words or action, of an intention to:
(1) unlawfully injure the person threatened or another person, or damage property;
In this circumstance, the threat would be a felony.
If you carry, you need to be very careful with your conduct.
The squeegee kids in New Orleans that I saw back in the ‘90s were usually polite, too - but there were a few that branched-out into carjacking. One of them was shot dead by a visiting Houston cop, IIRC.
I prefer the .410 Dragon's Breath for the carjackers. Nothing focuses the mind like being on fire. Collateral damage also appears minimal.
You’re quick! That’s the first image that came to my mind after the “Grand Torino” reference.
Didn’t he do that stunt in “The Mechanic”?
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