I gotta say, I'm in the same boat as Dread... It wasn't too long ago the wife kept bail money around for when my fists decided to answer goads like that (though they weren't over the kilt... that's a recent phenomena). I too am finding that my mouth now is taking over for my previous physical responses...

But I still agree with the others... that guy deserved it... Of course if he had been wearing jeans you always could have told him that the gold rush was over, so there's no point in wearing miner's pants around...