I see some people saying it sounds fake, but it sounds entirely believable to me. I’ve snapped on my bully before like that, and scared him so much he never bothered me again. In my case I got pranked by cruel genetics and had my eyesight go bad at 16 and I was slow to get my height. Naturally, the kid suddenly wearing glasses became a target, and my parents were of the “pacifist ” school of thought so that made it worse. My bully, a 6 foot wiry beanpole, broke my glasses frames twice, just ripped them off my head and snapped them in half. I told my parents and they blamed me for it, and said they were going to get me one more set of frames and “if I broke those, I’d just have to do without them.” So naturally, the damn bully finally corners me with one of his cronies, and eventually rips my glasses off my face and turns and tosses them to his toady asshole buddy saying he’s going to break them, but first he’s going to beat me up because I was too much of a pu$$y to fight back. What he didn’t realize was when he had ripped the glasses off my face sideways, the cheap frames had scratched my face, and I was already angry so when I felt the pain from the frame scratch I just snapped and saw red and kinda blanked out. When I “woke up” his buddy was panicking and tugging futilely at my arm, which was suspending my bully by the throat against the wall of a nearby shed as his face turned purple and his heels drummed the wall. His toady buddy was white as a sheet and still holding my glasses. I relaxed my grip enough for the bully to breathe, and calmly asked for my glasses back. The glasses were quickly handed over, and I let go of the bully who slid to the ground and struggled to breathe. I looked down at him and said: “you will leave my glasses and me alone. There will be no other warnings.” I then walked away. As soon as I was out of sight the adrenaline reaction set in and I nearly puked. I thought for sure my folks would find out what happened somehow. But you know what? They never did, and my bully left me the hell alone from then on. Word spread among the other teens though, and I am pretty sure that was due to my bully’s crony. That kid was scared shitless and turned things around and stopped running with the bullies and instead has made a life for himself. My bully? He’s in prison on drug offenses.