good terms? dude I was JUST in a situation like your and handled it last week. the story:
This guy that I used to chill with was in my car, he was drunk and I was being a nice guy and picked him up. when we're driving down the busiest street in my town, he throws a full water bottle (full force) at a woman on a bike. I was flipping out and I went at least a mile up the road and turned into a restaurant parking lot. I was like let's hide out in my friends house and duck down for a bit. we go inside, we smoke and as soon as we're done smoking I go outside and a cop car is parked next to my vehicle. I just closed the door but the water bottle guy was still outside, drunk and high and had no idea what to do with the cop there. so the cop walks over after he saw my friend, he comes into the house and asks about the woman on the bike. he said she had followed me, taken my plates and called him. my friend tried lying but I knew I was innocent and also fucked...so I told him the water bottle was thrown from my car. basically, I got a citation for telling the truth, even though I didn't do shit, pleaded not guilty and they still gave me a $412 fine.
then this kid got locked up because he got off of house arrest that day and they were mad. I paid my fine but I wasn't happy. I wanted to get at least some money out of the pocket of that mother fucker. I waited until he got out, but I knew he was broke as a joke. but he did have things I wanted, like a super nice snowboard. I went to his house that night told him I had dank and wanted to welcome him home.
rolled up in the driveway with a car full of my boys, I told them to wait in the car while I do my thing, I went inside and the kids in the shower. his brother is home and I asked where the snowboard was because i wanted to buy it. he showed me, then I was like go outside see who is in the car bro. he walked out
I put the snowboard out on the porch, my friend puts it in my car. I go to this kids room, took his ps2 and all of his games, DVDs, a box of condoms, some other stuff. then he got out of the shower and walked into his room as I was gathering all of his stuff in the middle of the room. he didn't realize what I was doing so he sits down and lights a cig and thinks everything is ok. this kid ALWAYS got on my nerves, he was a little bitch with a big mouth...thought he was tough
I sat down across like we were cool and talked for a couple minutes. he leaned over to ash on the floor and I slammed his head into a table, I leaned him back up and took his cigarette, I leaned his head back and choked him and put the cig next to his eye and told him what I thought of him, told him I'm taking whatever I want because he got me that fine, told him I dared him to try anything because I had a gun and so did my boys, plus no one likes this kid anymore after what he did to me. so i let go and he tried to punch me, I burned him with the ashes of the cig, beat the shit out of him stole his stuff and left with my friends and the little brother had no clue why i was putting his shit in my car because he was high
dude handle this wisely, I didn't go without my friends and a weapon. I also waited for the right moment to do this. if you dont want to be violent, at least just knock him unconcious so you can search for your shit. dont call the police..