Probably referring to his comment history , which by the sound of it says that he ' s claimed to be all those things . Check his history if you want , I ' m too lazy . <| sep |> For an assault where the only injury is a red mark , for someone with limited previous offending , prison is a very unlikely outcome so unlikely that , if the facts are exactly as you ' ve reported , it can be effectively discounted as a possibility . I see . That ' s comforting , thank you . As far as specifics , I really just wanted to get a sense of if there was any basic advice we could try to give him while it ' s still a recent event . Perfectly understand if it really is just a wait and see situation , but as all of us have extremely limited legal prowess we just wanna avoid a situation where time goes by , some kind of court case emerges and we ' re told Why didn ' t you do X or Y obvious thing ?