while reading on another thread, the subject reminded me of an incident from several years past;
several years ago, my wife and i would climb the "M" approximately every 2 or 3 days, just to stay in reasonable shape.
on occasion, a friend would join us.
one particular night our friend Pete M. wanted to go, but we both had prior commitments, and couldn't go--and subsequently, Pete went by himself that evening.
after he had climbed the "M" and had come back down, he saw a group of several guys parked down in the lot, and they were partying--according to him--on booze and ditch weed.
they had very deliberately blocked in his car so he couldn't leave, and then started harassing him--shoving him around, and giving him a hard time in general. they had their fun with it for awhile, and after a fashion, they finally let him go--laughing at him as he went to get in his car to leave.
it shook him up aplenty.
a couple days later, while we were headed to climb the "M", he told me about the incident and said, "if you had been along that evening it wouldn't have happened."
i told him, "you know Pete, that's pure BS--what you really needed was the Weasel (scenarshooter), for that situation--not me.
he excitedly replied, "i wanted the Equalizer--not the Terminator!!"
we've all laughed about that remark for years...
