Who is the meanest or scariest person you've met?

A buddy met Mike Tyson in a boxing gym post biting off Evander Holyfield's ear. Said he exuded danger.

My grandparents had a store in downtown Athens when I was in elementary school. They would let me hang out there during the summer while my parents worked as long as I minded my business in a corner and read a book.

My grandfather was a man of his time, survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, and never showed any emotions unless he was angry, which was most of the time. One afternoon a man walked in to buy a book. My grandfather was at the cash register and I could tell he was noticeably nervous. For 9 year old me to notice anything like that meant it must have been obvious. The man chit chats with my grandfather, makes his purchase, and leaves. My grandfather waited for him to clear the block then turned to me and said, 'That was Howard Sims. He is the most evil man I've ever known. If you see him in the street, turn the other way'. I said, 'Yes sir Paw Paw' and went back to reading my Hardy Boys book. It really didn't register with me at the time.

Years later in college, I'm watching a documentary on Lemuel Penn's murder in Danielsville, Georgia and I'll be if Howard Sims picture didn't come up. He was a Klansman who followed Lt Col Penn's car from downtown Athens to the Broad River where he pulled up next to it and executed him.. Howard was murdered himself not much later after I met him.

It seems pretty tame compared to the stuff going on today, but I'd consider anyone who scared my Paw Paw the scariest person I've met.