I've watched from afar and been generally awed and, (happily), reduced to tears of laughter by Bullshido's lovely tales and articles. I never thought that i would have anything worth posting here, but today I experienced something I would really like to share.

I'm quite a big fella, although I'm 'out of shape' as in the Micheal Caine film, and I have a couple of years experience in both Karate and Kickboxing, (my elder brother is a kicker instructor and helps me keep my hand in), and I practice law in my town. I normally manage to avoid fights through talking and being savvy enough to get out of the situation pronto.
This afternoon I went for a walk with my missus and my five year old daughter, leaving my year old son with his grandma, thank god. We went for a ramble along a river where my dad grew up and after a while we angled away from the river so I could show my daughter where her grandfather was born, ( the houses are all gone now but the well is still there and also a wall where my dad and his brothers carved their initials).

About five minutes later we were crossing an open field when I saw a person coming towards us - obviously to my eyes carrying a shotgun, (broken), and i told the girls not to worry, but to let me explain. About thirty feet from us he unbroke the gun and I thought 'oh ****'....
I immediately told my wife to stop and take our daughter to our right, (about a thousand yards to the main road), I spread my arms wide and said 'hello, is there a problem', and the (old fella obviously a farmer or gamekeeper), said ' damn right there's a problem this is private property, you shouldn't be coming on here'.
I replied, (and btw, he sounded fucking pissed), 'sorry, I'm so sorry, we are just lost, sorry we will go over there and onto the road and go'.
I've walked these fields for 30 years with my dad and nothing like this ever happened before, but I was **** scared for my wife and kid.

As I turned away he pointed the fucking gun at my two girls and I didn't even think about anything.
I grabbed the barrel and twisted it to point upright and then I punched him full in the face as hard as I could and pulled the gun away as he fell.
I then hit him two or three times with the butt and turning away scooped up my daughter and ran like **** to the main road, where we walked zombielike back to the car and went home.

Nothing like this has ever happened to me and I still feel bloody shaken by it all. I used to think I was fairly 'hard', but honestly, if my little lad had been there I think I would have reversed the gun and pulled the trigger.

I dunno why I want to tell you lot about this, but I hope it illustrates how things sometimes go.
your faithfully, reverend clog.

P.S. **** knows why he was so aggressive, my missus says I was as mild as a lamb with him.

There are way too many trigger-happy idiots out in the sticks that go Rambo over their land and deserve a beating for it.

Serves him right.

Good job.

Cheers mate,
even though i've had fights before this was my first involving my family, and and a bloody gun for christs sake. I still feel sick. I feel like crying almost - how stupid is that?.

****, good thing you and your family are all safe.

The whole situation went bad in about thirty seconds. My daughter is inconsolable even now.
What a fucking **** this man was.

Please don't hit anything with the butt of a shotgun. You're lucky it didn't go off and kill you or someone else. Other than that good job.

I didn't think.

Cheers mate,
even though i've had fights before this was my first involving my family, and and a bloody gun for christs sake. I still feel sick. I feel like crying almost - how stupid is that?.Not stupid at all. You feel bad, that's human.

Violence hits people differently. Better to be crying now, with your family alive, then regretting you inaction over a hospital bed or grave.

Did you call the police? I'm sure I don't need to inform you, an attorney, the many fine reasons you ought to tell the police what happened.

Dumbass Deliverance folk! I'm glad you're alive and unscathed, Reverend.
When banjo-man came to, I wonder if he went home, punched his sister/wife in the eye and then bed down with the dog? I frikkin' HATE white trash crackers like this.

In which state did this happen? Doesn't he have to post a "no trespassing" sign? Here in Indiana, you have to post it or verbally tell someone for it to be trespassing. Now why some cornbred and infed tard from Tobacco Road has to treat you like this is beyond me.

You...did...call the local cops, right? I mean, who else is he going to shoot?

Congratulations. You did extremely well considering a gun was involved - a shotgun for ****'s sake. I would have shat myself, I can't imagine having the balls to grab it out of a psychopath's hands and smack him with it. You're a legend. I'm glad your family were safe in the end. You should be proud of yourself for having acted so quickly and effectively.

And yeah, definately call the police and tell them what happened.

Sorry to hear that happened, glad to hear you're alright. I had something like that happen to me during this past summer; I was out of town with some friends, we pulled over to use the bathroom, and there were cholos who approached us. He came up to me (my three friends were a short skinny guy, a tall skinny guy, and a skinny girl, while I am tall and decently built) and after asking me such questions as "where are you from?" and "why are you here?", as well as informing me I was in "ghost town," he broke my windshield with the 40 in his hand and threatened me with a gun, saying I had until the count of 5 to leave. It was traumatizing enough for me just wondering what could have happened to my friends, so I imagine it must be even more devastating to be wondering that about your wife and daughter.

From your "Get Carter" reference, and your use of the c-word to describe a man, I'm guessing that this happened in the UK, right?

Me and some friends had a nasty run-in there with an aggressive landowner when we were teenagers - he was rolling up his sleeves and offering to break our necks - but it was no where near as bad as what happened to you. What kind of a maniac points a gun at a five year-old girl? Landowners in Britain are so up their arse. I think it's the overcrowding.

If this was a movie, you should've shot his foot off to teach the fucker a lesson. But seeing as it isn't, you acted bravely and admirably in a horrible, horrible situation. I can only hope that I could act as instinctively as you to protect my wife and children.

I really hope it doesn't get to you too much in the next few weeks, as you did the right thing. And I agree with the others - tell the law, and also maybe make some discrete inquiries about this bloke: is he generally known as a nutter, do his neighbours need to know about him?

Btw - did you just leave him with the gun as you ran away, or did you chuck it?

I didn't ring the police. I live in England, and I have I suppose been a bit dumb about posting this. ****.
I have rung my old man and established wether I was trespassing or not and we worked out that we were on the land of a family friend.
I don't know if the fellow is still lying there or not.
I'm going to go out there and see. My brother is going to come over and we will go,( his opinion is that he hopes the fucker is still led there).
I really hope not myself.
Will be in touch. I can't tell you how I feel right now.

I didn't ring the police. I live in England, and I have I suppose been a bit dumb about posting this. ****.
I have rung my old man and established wether I was trespassing or not and we worked out that we were on the land of a family friend.
I don't know if the fellow is still lying there or not.
I'm going to go out there and see. My brother is going to come over and we will go,( his opinion is that he hopes the fucker is still led there).
I really hope not myself.
Will be in touch. I can't tell you how I feel right now.


Call the police. Really. Tell them your story and get it out in the open. You have witnesses and can establish the facts of self-defence. The chances are, his gun isn't even legal, let alone the shitstorm he'll face for pointing it at someone when it wasn't even his land.

Honestly - for your own peace of mind, make this official.

Listen to BaronVonDingDong. I didn't report my incident to the police afterward because I just wanted to get out of there and clear my head, but in retrospect had I called the police these guys could have been caught and put away so they couldn't do harass anymore innocent people. Sometimes I wonder if they have actually shot other people, and if I could have prevented it if I had just called the police that night.