i have actually run into a lot of people like this, on the net, they act as hard-asses that will kill you, or talk "seriuos trash",
or threaten to beat you up.

i get confronted with this a lot, so i thought i might share my experiances with you.
a few years ago (2 ?) a well known hacker that lives in the houston area tried to pick a fight with me.
i told him something about him getting raided by the FBI and he told me that he was a hard-ass the whole time...

i kind of joked around with him, and he got really pissed. i got banned from EFNET, had my icq stripped, your usual.
well, i got really pissed...

i got another icq account and messaged him, then he threatned to come over to my house and beat me up with his buddy.
i was kind of scared at that moment being naive at all of this, but i was ready.
i told him to come on over. if i recall correctly he gave me my address.
he also told me that he would be at my house in about an hour.

well, if any of you know me, i'm not really a person to be fucked with "In Real Life".
i will do whatever it takes, and trust me on this one.

well 45 minutes passed, and i was ready.
i grabbed fairly large sized bat, and i am pretty sure i took my trusty knife :)
it wasn't even so much to beat him up really badly, more of a self protection kind of thing...

this was in the night, probably 10 or 11. i sat at the corner of the street for about 45 minutes. i was _waiting_ for that guy to show up but he never did.
i was _VERY_ pissed when he didnt' cause i got worked up for no reason.

so, the lesson of the story is; people that talk trash online are pansies in real life.
if you have to talk trash on the internet, that just probably means that you don't have the means to "spit it in real life".

so if any of you are worried that some "trash talker" will beat you up, or harm you, have no fear.
cause i can gaurentee you, that the person is scared to even lift up a bat.
let alone leave his "fake world"!
:)

peace,
akbar A.