Replying to Have you ever caught somebody stealing/screwing with your gear?

So i was reading the thread about having stuff stolen and i just wanted to know if anybody has caught somebody in the act of walking off with your skis? what did you do? i'm curious because i don't even know what my reaction would be. needless to say, it probably would involve a little bit more than me giving the offender a stern talking-to.

the only experience i have was with my dad. we were skiing at a hill in the middle of nowhere where the locals all wear snowmobile suits and hunting coveralls. we stopped at this little bar at the bottom of the hill so we could warm up quick and grab something to drink. as we walk out, this snowboarder gaper complete with snowmobile clothing and shitty 10 year old burton board decides he was gonna show off to his friends and grabs my dads relatively new fischer pow skis of the ski rack and throws them on the ground so he could put his board there. mind you this was a sunday in a bumfuck town in minnesota, so barely anybody was there since football was on. needless to say, basically all the spots on the racks were open except for where my dad and i put our skis. this guy could have put his board anywhere, but decided to fuck with my dad's stuff. my dad saw it through the window and walked out. he walked right up to the guy, didn't say a thing, grabbed his skis off the ground, and pretended to walk off like nothing happened. then he turned around when this dick thought it was all over and swung his skis by the tails at this dude's dome. the guy kinda jumped when he saw my dad swinging his skis at him so the skis caught him in the neck rather than the head. the edges cut the guy's neck, but not serious. just a little cut or two. the guy and his friends ran off and it was the end of it. kind of a claim, but i've never seen my dad do anything like this. i was happy he wasnt going to let this shit just happen to him like that. i was expecting him to just yell at him or something, not swing his skis at the dude. it was intense to say the least.

anybody else have a good story?