thats pretty horrible Leon, these kind of aholes usually dont live very long if thats any consolation - I dont care, theres no excuse for this type of thing
on prevention - this one is off the wall, no one will believe this but I have seen a line of salt sprinkled around the perimeter of a yard defuse very heavy situations twice in my life both times by a good mate who thought he was a kinda wizard (maybe he was? i'm not sure, he was a very smart mad bloke)
One time a mate got information a group of dangerous people known to him were on their way to his house to trash it, in short it was retaliation as my mate was seeking sole custody of his daughter from his crazy ex - long story.
The main guy, the then current partner of mates old ex, was a hard core criminal, spent most of his life in jail for numerous armed robberies - huge list of offending, and two of his cronies, the works if you know what i mean. anyway my mate rang me out of the blue and asked me to go to his and help his brother defend the house and he would come later (his music gear was there and I was in an duo with him, so i had my own interests in protecting it too).
anyway my wizard mate did the anti - evil salt ritual round the perimeter and we stood on front lawn with lengths of 4x2's for protection, and sure enough they soon came and circled around - best part was they were wearing disguises which included huge massive afro/sideshow bob wigs and big sunglasses which made them totaly look like clowns and they were in a little car toboot with the wigs so large they bent back down from the roof of the car (one of the most surreal sights I have ever seen btw)- they eventually pulled over and pointed a brown paper bag with a sawn off .22 poking out the end and pointed it at us and made a few threatening gestures with it and nicked off, and never came back - the main clown guy died young in jail a few years later, unrelatedly.
Maybe the salt perimeter did work?, maybe my mate was a kind of self taught wizard, maybe we were just lucky, but it certainly stuck in my mind
practical magic at work?
