The Night the Lawyer Called

Been an interesting evening here.

I got a call from an attorney for a popular martial arts website, Bullshido.net

I'm not a regular reader of the site, but I check in here and there. I mostly know it as a place with message boards about MA-related stuff. Last year they were instrumental in outing my former instructor at the Krav school.

Lo and behold, I got a message on the site tonight from their attorney, saying he wanted my phone number.

Hmm.

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So my phone rang after 10pm, and it was him, aka SB.

Seems that I used to be on an email list for this martial arts wacko who calls himself Lieutenant X. I mostly sent them to that great recycle bin in the sky, but for whatever reason I read this one.

There'd been a discussion on Bullshido recently about Lt. X's claims regarding how a person with training might have handled the Virginia Tech shootings.

I found his spam to amusing and inflammatory, so I posted it.

Basically, he was taking a shot at message boards like that one, calling them names for doubting him. He put his address in the email and invited anyone who felt so inclined to come to his school and fight him.

I don't think I even followed the thread after that. I don't like Bullshido much. They pick on the good guys AND the bad guys, and usually piss me off in the process.

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So flash forward, and SB tells me Lt. X had a lawyer threaten to sue Bullshido due to the threats Lt. X received in the forum as a result of my post.

I'm in no legal trouble. I simply posted an email solicitation. It's those other knuckleheads who took it too far, of course.

But SB intends to show that Lt. X was quite clear about inviting this.

I simply have to sign an affidavit stating what my role in this was. It's all pretty straightforward.

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It's late and I need to crash. Good night. Have a terrific, peaceful weekend.