But because the man wasn't dangerous to himself or others and explained how he planned to feed himself, Kruger's options were limited.
He claims to be "touched" by the suggestion that it was an attempt to put himself in the same position as his mother, to reveal something as dangerous for himself as, by discussing his grandfather, he did for her.
To do so now would be as dangerous to himself as to his foes.
A soldier's mind can be just as dangerous to himself, and to those around him, as wars fought on traditional battlefields.
The governor said the database "should include any determination that someone is mentally ill and so dangerous to himself or others as to warrant involuntary treatment".
'He was not regarded as dangerous in himself but he was a great way of finding out about what everyone else was up to,' said one source.
The principal human defense mechanism, she indicated, is repression, an unconscious process that develops as the young child learns that some impulses, if acted upon, could prove dangerous to himself.
One February afternoon last year at the Holley Center in Hackensack, a 12-year-old boy considered so dangerous to himself that he was never to be farther than an arm's length from the center's staffers approached a worker saying that he wanted "to kill himself".
In truth, his crime has been quite different: to be insufficiently dangerous to himself or to others to get the help he needs and wants, but to be insufficiently capable of running his life independently to get the help he needs and wants.
He's got to play Marcos Baghdatis, who's a Grand Slam finalist and a dangerous player himself.
