I found myself pished at paradeplatz a few months ago. A guy came right up close to me, he was muttering to himself. Skinny, goth type creature with thick glasses, dirty, filthy dirty.

I asked him what the matter was when he kept standing right next to me every time I moved away. It was late on a weekday night and there was no one about.

He started whispering into my ear that he was going to cut my head off. He became abusive, spurting a whole load of violent rubbish. I made a phone call to distract him, to see if I could shake him off. He became very agitated and continued to threaten decapitation.

I became angry and reciprocated the desire to do damage. It ended with me chasing him around paradeplatz threatening to tear him apart if he so desired. By the time the tram came he was apologising profusely and was adamant that was his new best friend.