AlleyGator wrote:
> Damsel in dis Dress > wrote:
> >Do you think that Gator is lying?
> It has nothing to do with whether he thinks I'm lying, Damsel. He
> does make a good point in that we call it that because we can only
> work with what we know. I think I posed earlier that maybe it's
> possible the guy was feeling tough and tried a common thing - seeing
> if he could scare her, and if so what he could get away with. He
> improperly did some stuff that no woman would like - I'm guessing if
I
> grabbed you in certain and several ways in quick succession, the
> police would call it "assault". So, in some ways, he's justified in
> calling it "alleged". I'm flexible here. I think he's being
logical,
> not mean.


My comment to Lena was that the assault took place in America, not
Rwanda. She should stick to the incident being described if she wants
to discuss appropriate responses. He jumped on me for my not using
alleged.
I told him it didn't matter if was actuall or alleged, that it ook
place in the US, not Rwanda. I guess he just didn't get that I had a
problem with the change of locations for the purpose of discussing
responses to crime.

Sandi