I don't know why, but this reminds me of this onion piece I read yesterday<p><a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/high-integrity-moral-decency-has-cost-idiot-man-mi,26639/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theonion.com/articles/high-integrity-moral-decenc...</a>
I've had a knife pulled on me (during YC startup hustlin' duties actually) & it is very difficult to have empathy with the aggressor when this sort of thing happens. Julio sounds like a standup young man