Crazy nutters

Why? What's the point?

I'm not sure if being a young person wearing a suit has anything to do with the following events but it does have a strange effect on people.

I got on a crowded tram a couple of weeks ago and in the process of moving up the aisle to make room for more people, I may or may not have brushed past a (probably 50yo) guy with a walking stick built like a man who regularly visits the gym... the kind of build you don't get in any natural way through a sport or profession. He had a bad goatie and he was short... and he had a short man's personality.

I was wearing my headphones and didn't notice until two stops later that the guy appeared to be glaring at me and mouthing something. Others around him seemed to be a bit uncomfortable. I stayed on the tram 2 more stops and got off at the same stop as this other guy. To put it into context, I am an average height, skinny guy who doesn't pose a threat to anyone. It was Friday at the end of another long week at work and I was in a fairly apathetic mood.

So this guy followed me off the tram and about 20m later he poked me. To which I stopped, removed my headphones and gave him my attention.
"You fucken bump a man with a walking stick and ... [some generic threat]" to which I replied,
"Sorry mate, I didn't realise I bumped you".
"Fucken smart arse prick."
"Sorry mate", he keeps walking, I follow a few paces behind. The guy looks anxious and flustered, just been nudged slightly on a crowded tram and obviously looking for something to channel his anger into. The guy could probably break me with a couple of fingers, but my apathy and instinct to tempt fate sees me continue to walk beside and then overtake him.

We get to the next corner and he stops me again. The by-standers keep walking. He walks up to me and from an uncomfortably close distance starts one of the most bizarre bits of dialog I've been involved in.
"You don't know who I am, do you?"
"No, who are you?" I say back calmly and watching for any sudden movements.
"I'm the President of the Neo Nazi Society, that's who." A smell of bourbon wafts past my nose.
"Oh, well again, sorry for bumping you."
"Yeah that's right. If you fucken bump me on a tram again, I'll fucken pull a gun and shoot you!" he said, now walking away from me without breaking eye contact.
"You'll shoot me?" I could not believe the stupidity of the situation.
"Watch it buddy, I'd better not see you on a tram again." With that he walks off.

Part of me wants to throw caution to the wind and ask him why he's decided he'll shoot me just because I brushed past him on a crowded tram (I didn't even feel that I touched the guy at all). But the wiser move was to just let him make his point and continue on my merry way. Much like the attitude you take towards cops... let them say their thing despite the fact that you know they've misinterpreted the situation and then move on.

But what the fuck?
1. What the hell would a neo-nazi want me?
2. Shoot someone for nudging you?

This guy has run so far off the rails. I have no sympathy for someone like that. People like that are the reason I support capital punishment. I would have no problem with that man being removed from the gene-pool and society.

In future I'll probably just walk in the other direction.