Threat!

You mess with me and I'll be on you like:

Yellow on a schoolbus.

Noise at the airport.

Fedex on a package.

Dog pee on a fire hydrant.

A jones on a ghetto junkie.

Dents on a Tijuana taxi.

Pidgeons on a breadcrumb.

Rush hour traffic in Houston.

A body bag.

A pitbull on a mailman.

The Steelers on a fumble.

Fat on Roseanne Barr.

Holy on the Pope.

Biff Manard

Threat

A threat is when you tell someone you will do something to them if they don't do what you are asking them to do.

The threat can have a form of an explicit or implicit message.

It can also be any source of probable impending danger (e.g. "a terrorist threat"), or a warning of an impending danger.

Threat and International law

A definition of threat between States, attributed to British lawyer Ian Brownlie, is that:

a threat of force consists of an express or implied promise by a government of a resort to force conditional on non-acceptance of certain demands of that government.

The 1969 Vienna convention on the Law of Treaties notes in its preamble that both the threat and the use of force are prohibited. Moreover, in Article 52, it establishes the principle that if threats of using force are made during diplomatic negotiations, then any resulting treaty is invalid, stating "A treaty is void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. "