Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Chicago Driver Shot
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="dannyboy" data-source="post: 572106" data-attributes="member: 484"><p>Sat</p><p> </p><p>I agree 100%.</p><p> </p><p>IT used to be that I tried to avoid confrontation as much as I could. Growing up as a boy in a small town in Iowa, I was beaten very regularly by groups of boys who's parents hated Germans. At least once or twice a week walking home from school, a group (always 3-6 or more) would lie in wait to ambush me. One of the interesting things I remember was the threat that if I resisted, they would then assault my other siblings, all of which were younger. So I did not resist, and took the beatings.</p><p> </p><p>One thing that this taught me was first, the people that were doing this were cowards. Not a one would ever confront me alone. I also learned that they use intimidation to keep you afraid.</p><p> </p><p>This all stopped one day at recess. They made the mistake of doing the group thing while I had access to a ball bat. I put two on the ground and was gaining ground on a third before the teachers stepped in.</p><p> </p><p>From that day forward, I made it a point not to allow bullies the upper hand.</p><p> </p><p>That was also why I became a steward at UPS. At that time we had some sadistic sups that were on power trips. Had nothing to do with the driver doing something wrong, they just wanted to play games and flex their power.</p><p> </p><p>While I hold human life as sacred, and morally it would be wrong for me to take another's life, there would be those times.....</p><p> </p><p>d</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dannyboy, post: 572106, member: 484"] Sat I agree 100%. IT used to be that I tried to avoid confrontation as much as I could. Growing up as a boy in a small town in Iowa, I was beaten very regularly by groups of boys who's parents hated Germans. At least once or twice a week walking home from school, a group (always 3-6 or more) would lie in wait to ambush me. One of the interesting things I remember was the threat that if I resisted, they would then assault my other siblings, all of which were younger. So I did not resist, and took the beatings. One thing that this taught me was first, the people that were doing this were cowards. Not a one would ever confront me alone. I also learned that they use intimidation to keep you afraid. This all stopped one day at recess. They made the mistake of doing the group thing while I had access to a ball bat. I put two on the ground and was gaining ground on a third before the teachers stepped in. From that day forward, I made it a point not to allow bullies the upper hand. That was also why I became a steward at UPS. At that time we had some sadistic sups that were on power trips. Had nothing to do with the driver doing something wrong, they just wanted to play games and flex their power. While I hold human life as sacred, and morally it would be wrong for me to take another's life, there would be those times..... d [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Chicago Driver Shot
Top