Slate Magazine has a great story about Ron Tolkin, a 61-year-old Brooklyn stenographer, who, before wrestling with a convicted drug felon, used some pretty harsh language in the courtroom. Trying subdue “the crazed” Victor Wright, Tolkin encouraged the assailant to turn his attack from federal prosecutor Carolyn Pokorny onto the court reporter himself.

Slate write: “Let the record show that Tolkin’s precise words, as quoted in the transcript, were: ‘Try it on me, man, I’ll kick you in the f–––in’ balls’”