More Proof Old Guys Rule

[ColoWayno]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/0...-gardner-home/

“He came in and that’s when I grabbed him by the throat and slammed him down on the floor and told him to stay on the floor and not to put his hands in his pockets. I didn’t know if he had a knife or a gun on him,” Salame said.

[Mark E. Hurling]

The ultimate, "Get off my lawn!"

[TomF]

Good on the guy. But I've gotta say, it makes me blink to hear him call his female companion his "girlfriend." Salame's 70, so I assume she's also of a certain age.

Girlfriend? Well, if she is young enough to use the term accurately, maybe the old guy does rule.

[Dave_G]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/0...-gardner-home/

Wow. That guy is lucky he didn't break into a house in some states where the homeowner could have shot him just for being in the house. I want to live in one of those states. I live in a liberal fucking state where even if an intruder comes at me with lethal force and I shoot him, I would get off criminally, but would get sued in a civil lawsuit and - although would probably win that too, it would still cost me 20-30 grand in legal fees. (I learned this in an 8 hour long class at my gun range called, "Home Defense and Connecticut State Law")

[carson]

I wouldn't live in Conn. It would be worse than living in Moore, Oklahoma.

[Mark E. Hurling]

One of the adages about the rural Midwest, if you make it past the age of 2 you'll live practically forever because you've already proven you don't die easily. Bad weather and a general lack of much more than volunteer fire departments, a weekly driveby from a deputy sheriff (maybe), and water wells on your own propterty with electric pumps produce people who learn to take of and fend for themselves.

[sbhikes]

it makes me blink to hear him call his female companion his "girlfriend."

What are you supposed to call them? I have a 62-year-old boyfriend. It sounds weird to say boyfriend but he's not my husband. Should I say "unregistered heterosexual domestic partner"? How annoying.

[Mark E. Hurling]

The word "boy" doesn't convey relative youth to you?

[tbennett]

Well, "manfriend" makes me think of "A Fish Called Wanda" and Kevin Kline's "Harvey Manfrenjensenten." ;-)

[sbhikes]

Okay so since he teased me about doing snatches I'm going to call him my jerk. Problem solved.