I've lived in places where the people next door would crank their boom
boxs up and when asked to lower them down a bit, all they did was
crank them up more, so then I'd go home turn on mine with the Japanese
Superhero records at the ready and let'm have it. In a short time
they'd turn off theirs and I'd turn off mine.

And someone throw a rock at me? They'd better go hide, this Vietnam
vet doesn't turn the other cheek.



--
"Knowledge is a 3 edged Sword" Kosh on Babylon 5
www.starlords.org


"Frogleg" wrote in message
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:11:47 GMT, wrote:


Oh, yeah. If someone throws a rock at you, the "solution" is to
throw
a bigger rock. There are *many* solutions to problems that don't
involve tit for tat. I once cranked up Mozart on my car radio (open
windows) to 'make a point' with the unwelcome music coming from an
adjacent car in a parking lot. Result: I don't really enjoy Mozart
at
50 decibels; I risked/provoked confrontation with unknown people;
they
didn't lower their volume (fortunately they didn't leap out of their
car and smash my windows), and AFAIK, I was the only one left
feeling
a bit foolish. You don't "teach" people to be polite and
accomodating
by matching or exceeding their rudeness.