Originally posted by @Nancy P.:
Originally posted by @Clifford Paul:
When I read stories like this, I'm thankful that I live in the great state of Texas. Peeping Tom... peeping Tom now has a third eye socket. 🤯
Years ago while walking the dog in Houston in the early daylight hours was approached by a car. Naked man emerged, calmly (while 50 ft. away) informed me he was going to rape me until I was dead. I had a cell phone and screamed into it at 911. (If my brain had been working sans caffeine I would have take a photo of him and his license plate!) He drove off. This guy had been seen in the neighborhood before at least 3 times. I was more than a little stunned when the sheriff attended the next neighborhood watch, and announced that since he had threatened to kill me, he could be shot on sight. Three women went out and bought handguns. Tall men (he was at least 6'3) stopped running in the neighborhood just in case they would me mistaken for the flasher. As did my husband who is only 6 ft ( they all went to a nearby school and ran on the track). Probably most effective, somebody quoted the sheriff on the neighborhood web site. The dude was never seen in the neighborhood again. As horrible as he was, I really didn't want him killed over it. I mean, I could have been LYING about what he said, and someone could have shot him over it! But that's Texas.
Sec. 9.32. DEADLY FORCE IN DEFENSE OF PERSON.
(B) to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery.
Nancy, you would have been certainly justified in protecting yourself. No saine person ever wants to take another's life. Believe me as a combat veteran it's something that burns at your soul but if a person refuses to protect themselves who's going to do it? When the police are minutes away sometimes it's you or the offender. I would rather face a jury of 12 than be carried by six.
