Have you ever threatened another person?

No. But I have had plenty of people do it to me. Well, more in my school days.

Not counting my kids? ~

Yes, but only in untenable situations. I threaten bullies who try to mistreat and intimidate me. I threaten mean people who are being nasty to someone who’s smaller, weaker, or otherwise defenseless.

It would be nice if every schoolyard bully could grow up and become a decent adult. Sadly, that isn’t always the case. Some bullies never stop; they smell fear and continue until someone stands up to them fearlessly.

I should note that I:

(1) Never start trouble. I wouldn’t threaten anyone unless I see no other solution. It’s impossible to reason with someone’s who’s being irrational, so sometimes nasty has to be squelched by more nasty.

(2) Abhor violence and have never hit anyone in my entire life.

No, I have never been in a situation where I threatened someone.

Yes. I threatened my abusive ex boyfriend that I would report his pot growing/dealing ass to the DEA if he didn’t leave me alone. He did call me a C U Next Tuesday but at least I never heard from him again. :)

Today I threatened to kill my husband if he didn’t stop acting like an asshole. Does that count?

I don’t do threats, I make promises.
Can count on one hand the times i’ve had to verbally chastise someone, they were all blokes & each involved defending my kids, for which there is no compromise.

Yes, as a child I threatened someone who hurt my little brother.

I was about to say no (and indignantly, too!) until I read the other responses. I have threatened to call the police on people, maybe a half dozen times. Only followed through twice, though. One was a neighbour making way too much noise at 3:00 in the morning, in a large apartment building. The guy responded to each of my visits by increasing the volume. Oh, college kids.

The other was an ex-boyfriend (and only after he threatened me).

Constantly, but she still refuses to get me my dinner at a decent hour.

@Blondesjon you don’t want to fuck with the person who prepares your meals. :P

No, I only threaten playfully (make the cat into a pair of gloves, beat my 300-pound brother until he cries like a little girl, etc.) That’s how people know I care about them—when we’re comfortable enough with each other to make noises like that back and forth.

Actual, serious threats? I don’t bother. A psychotic roommate physically attacked me once, then called the cops and tried to get me arrested. So I cut the brake cables on his bike we lived in a hilly area. Hope he enjoyed my parting present.

Sweet-natured, easygoing… and part Irish/ part Sicilian. Don’t offer harm. Just don’t. :)

@peridot “So I cut the brake cables on his bike we lived in a hilly area. ”

Sounds like you could use a little threatening.

I’ve received way more threats than you know, @glacial. Are you offering? I could use a laugh.

It was okay for him to nearly break my neck, was it?

I regularly fuck with the person who prepares my meals, a delicious dessert.

@peridot I would never dream of threatening an anonymous person over the internet. I’m just saying there’s nothing funny about causing someone’s bike accident. You may even have hurt people other than your intended victim.

No there isn’t a single thing funny about it. Did I say it was?

That psychotic person had threatened me with bodily, legal, and mental harm. If a dog attacks you, there is great hue and cry to have it put down. You didn’t live with that person; I did. Calling him an animal would be an insult to nonhuman creatures everywhere.

@LeavesNoTrace Sounds like your ex is my ex. lol
Only difference is that mine still won’t leave me alone.

To answer the question, I don’t make a habit of threatening people, but there have been a few times where it was necessary.

Mostly it’s just me being threatened.

I have made general threats toward anyone who hurts my children.

I once threatened a bully bitch in high school that if she touched me again, I’d fuck her up. I was forced to keep my word.

I might jokingly threaten someone online, but it’s usually something silly like, “I will bludgeon you to death with my houseshoe!” or “Don’t make me get my shovel!”

I threatened to put a company I was involved with into liquidation if our then partner didn’t start to play fair.

Other than that I can’t remember anything at the moment. I don’t threaten to harm people physically. I’m sure I must have threatened people in other ways over the years but I can’t remember specific incidents. I tend to not make idle threats though. If I say I’m going to do something, it’s pretty much a promise. I’ll keep thinking.

No, not online, though I’ve had others threaten me when I’d posted an opposing opinion. I’ve blogged and participated in various discussions long before my fluthering days, and the majority of those negative comments seem to come from either dating, political or religious threads.

I limit what sites I post on these days. The threats and insults get old after a while.

Constantly.

I don’t make threats, I’m just giving them a head start.

Three times. They weren’t threats of violence or anything like that. But they were a big deal coming from me. And, those I threatened knew that.

Once when I was about 11 years old. The school bully was repetitively smashing a kid’s head in the snow, when I belted an ice-ball at the back of his head. He turned and I said, ready to pee myself, “I have more.” He never bugged that kid again.

The second time, when I was 15, an obnoxious little boy on the bus called my sister a “devil hooker” one too many times (because she had a long black jacket with faded skulls on it). We got off on the same stop, coming home from school (a Roman Catholic school), I followed him to the park and told him that every time he says words like that…the devil pays special attention to him. From then on, he wouldn’t even look at us. I felt really bad though, because he was only about 8 or 9 years old, so I apologized to him about 3 months later.

The third (a few years ago) was when my brother called my partner a “packy” who needs to “stay out of family affairs”. I told him if he ever used that term in front of me, or her, again that we’d be done with him. He listened to my warning but still used/uses the term behind our backs (as I’m finding out more and more).

Yes my ex wife and her lover when I walked in on them in our bed while they were doing the deed. Needless to say I ended up a weekend in the “brig” after assaulting the man with a 32 inch TV. Seeing your wife on top of another man tends to bring that out in you.

@Plucky What’s a “packy”? I’m not familiar with this usage. Where I grew up, in New England, “packy” is slang for a liquor store (a.k.a. package store).

@SadieMartinPaul , I think it’s someone from Pakistan.

Never.

@SadieMartinPaul… @Judi is correct. Maybe I spelt it wrong. Most people who use the word use it as a blanket racial slur for East Indians. My partner is not from Pakistan (she’s a Fijian East Indian), but many assume she is because of her skin tone/appearance. It is like calling all black people African. Not every black person is directly from Africa. However, African isn’t generally a racial slur.

@Judi and @Plucky Oh…of course. Now that you’ve explained it to me, it seems obvious. (Obviously hateful, that is.)

When I was fourteen the neighborhood boys pelted my four year old brother with ice balls. The boys were eight years older than he, and two years younger than I.

My brother came home sobbing with bruises all over his body and I marched over to their back yard, walked up to them until I was a few inches from their faces, and told them in a very quiet voice that I would punch their teeth in if they ever hurt one of my siblings again.

Never had any problems after that.