Some guy made money off of these bar fights

[EvanL]

http://www.youtube.com/v/MZEZI5-CoYA

[scrybe]

I blame hockey for all this tomfoolery.

[EvanL]

You should blame alcohol.
The two are intertwined.
I once got stuck against the bar during a bar fight. This happened about a bit over a month ago. I had my rum n cokes just before last call and some guys started yelling and they were right beside me and it was crowded and i thought **** please dont let a fight break out. Because I was stuck right there and would get hit. So anyways a fight does break out and my drink gets thrown in my face and I end up pushed against the bar. So I turned around and elbowed the two guys in the faces and felt someone else coming up behind me who i thought were one of their buddies coming to nail me. So I turned around and threw an elbow out. It turned out it was one of the guys girlfriends who I just ended up smoking in the face with my elbow. She fell onto her back and the bouncers kicked her and the other two out for fighting. ahaha
The bartender chick gave me two new drinks because my other ones were spilled.

[scrybe]

haha, awesome

[EvanL]

haha, awesome
I kind of felt bad. But then again if it was one of their buddies I would have been ****ed.

[scrybe]

Actually, I woulda thought hitting one of the GFs of the group would be more dangerous than hitting one of the guys. If you tag the guy, a couple of his buddies are going to jump in, a couple are going to stand and watch, and a couple are going to figure he's an idiot and deserves it, then leave. You tag the girl, and all the other guys figure you probably deserve an ass beating.

[EvanL]

Actually, I woulda thought hitting one of the GFs of the group would be more dangerous than hitting one of the guys. If you tag the guy, a couple of his buddies are going to jump in, a couple are going to stand and watch, and a couple are going to figure he's an idiot and deserves it, then leave. You tag the girl, and all the other guys figure you probably deserve an ass beating.
Well the guy must not have had many friends then!

[scrybe]

Suppose so.

[signatory]

ahaha the Irish should sue them for trying to rip off St Patricks day

[seventy6er]

So I turned around (...) and felt someone else coming up behind me (...) coming to nail me.

I blame alcohol.

[miguelencanarias]

When I was twenty-something I worked as head bouncer in a major disco in Tenerife, Canary Islands. I had a good team and I introduced the radio headsets (Madonna style) to communicate, which in those days was something unheard of. I was proud of my crew because I insisted in good manners and politeness as a better way to do things, and it worked.

In those days I saw enough irrational violence for the rest of my life. As many here know well, a real life fight bears little or no resemblance to a Hollywood brawl.

The worst experience I had was when some very strong drunk engaged me for no apparent reason and began squeezing my neck in a bear hug, if you know what I mean. I felt my neck about to break. I snapped. I felt a completely animal anger exploding inside me, an irrational wrath, and since that poor bastard left my hands free I saw myself pressing my thumbs inside his eyes really hard, half my thumbs were inside his eye cavities. I remember blood in my hands and shirt. Fortunately he kept his eyes, I don't know how. He released me due to the excruciating pain I was causing him, but I hadn't finished: I throw him on the floor, sat on him and proceeded to beat his face in a most savage way until one of my men finally told me to stop (my guys had been covering my back of the drunk man's friends). A witness told me that at one point I had missed a blow and hit the concrete floor. I didn't realize and I didn't hurt my hand. Wonders of the adrenalyne, I guess. The poor idiot was pretty messed up.

He turned out to be the boyfriend of one of the waitresses. He was sent to the hospital and no charges were pressed against me. The waitress told me later that they both knew it was his fault, he was too drunk and lost it, and he even apologized to me thru her.

While I gained a lot of street creds, I still reflect upon that day 15 years ago, when I was about to blind a man for the rest of his life. Terrible, terrible. Can you imagine that? My God.

One advise to the young people from a 36 year-old man: whenever possible, avoid getting into a fight. Fights are never nice and are a terrible sight to see, even when you win (imagine when you lose). And be afraid of the animal instincts lying below our civility, because the moment they surface, you won't hesitate to kill somebody. You won't stop at nothing. I didn't, and I have never been the typical gung-ho cowboy, not even in my youth.

Since that day I have never fought with anybody and refuse to, even at the cost of looking like a coward. I still keep that blood-stained shirt as a reminder of how a moment of anger can ruin two lifes.

[Diles46]

Good man.

It's hard most times to go out with a group of buddys now days. There's always that one guy looking to fight. I try to avoid it, but being the big guy of my group, it seems I'm always the first to be targeted.

:backhand:

[Ruledbyjames]

EvanLloyd, you always have good stories.

The only good story of recent times Ive had was during the Dublin riots. I was filming a bunch of scumbags getting arrested on my phone when one took a swing at me. He swung, I blocked and then kicked him straight in the knee cap. I was wearing a pair of Belleville steal toed boots. The scream of pain he let out was impressive.

One Female police woman looked at me and then went back to arresting the real scumbags. In hindsight, it couldve been much much worse.

[Ruledbyjames]

Miguel, I wouldnt beat yourself up about it (easier said then done) but you did what you had to do to survive.

[miguelencanarias]

Miguel, I wouldnt beat yourself up about it (easier said then done) but you did what you had to do to survive.Thanks Ruledbyjames. Yeah, I did, and I won, but imagine having to live with having blinded a man for the rest of his life. As I said: if I have to look like a coward, so be it, but I fear the animals inside us.

I guess I would only do it again to protect my family, but I pray God to never put me in that situation.

[EvanL]

One day I was headed back from the gym on a friday night. I was waiting at the bus stop outside of a bar when this drunk guy comes stumbling out of it. He walks straight towards the traffic as the bus is coming and I yell watch out man! And he turns around and looks at me like I'm an idiot while this bus comes charging at him. So I ran up grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him back out of the way of the bus. He fell to the ground and got up and took a swing at me. I told him to **** off, I just saved your life. And he mumbled something and walked off.

[titget]

I was expecting a better story out of you Evan... that one was lame







:)

[toki]

I've seen loads of random fights in our bar district. Almost every weekend.
But the problem is they're normally never fair man to man fist fights. It is always ugly, but fortunately the police have a reaction time there of under a minute from call. They jump out of a small bus with thick (knive proof ??) gloves and put everybody on the floor within seconds.

I've seen people who lived above a bar obviously having a party throwing flowerpots at people and when they stopped and asked them to come out the came with kitchen knives and Baseball bats. (Nobody plays Baseball here).

And never forget: Don't fight people on coke. Drunkards are normally bad fighters and stumble, but guys on coke are impossible to reckon.

And don't start to push people around in front of bars that are occupied/frequented/owned by south east european red light thugs.

Then you're OK p-)

Honestly, when you start sh't in that district or similar places anywhere else you can only blame yourself for ending up very bad.

[EvanL]

I've seen loads of random fights in our bar district. Almost every weekend.
But the problem is they're normally never fair man to man fist fights. It is always ugly, but fortunately the police have a reaction time there of under a minute from call. They jump out of a small bus with thick (knive proof ??) gloves and put everybody on the floor within seconds.

I've seen people who lived above a bar obviously having a party throwing flowerpots at people and when they stopped and asked them to come out the came with kitchen knives and Baseball bats. (Nobody plays Baseball here).

And never forget: Don't fight people on coke. Drunkards are normally bad fighters and stumble, but guys on coke are impossible to reckon.

And don't start to push people around in front of bars that are occupied by south eastern european red light thugs.

Then you're OK p-)

Honestly, when you start sh't in that district or similar places anywhere else you can only blame yourself for ending up very bad.
Yeh it's basically like that here in the market on the weekends.
The cops just park on every corner and do foot patrols. This speeds up their reaction time and any fights that happen outside of clubs/bars the police are usually there within 20seconds.
On halloween there was a fight with some guy dressed up as a skeleton and about 4 lebanese kids who were teasing him. THe skeleton guy started getting pummelled as all the lebanese kids just started throwing cheap shots at him and jumping back then coming in when his head was down. Anyways the cops came in like 15 seconds and had all the kids on the ground. Pretty quick timing.

[EvanL]

I was expecting a better story out of you Evan... that one was lame







:) Which one? The one about me saving some guys life or the one about me punching a girl?

[gaz]

Which one? The one about me saving some guys life or the one about me punching a girl?

My guess is that they're both fiction so it probably doesn't matter.

[titget]

Which one? The one about me saving some guys life or the one about me punching a girl?

the saving the guys life one, if you would have said he tried to knife you or something, it would have been a lot cooler...I did like the girl punch one

[EvanL]

the saving the guys life one, if you would have said he tried to knife you or something, it would have been a lot cooler...I did like the girl punch one
She was pretty butch too so it didn't feel as guilty.

[Ruledbyjames]

Dont know about the police reaction time in Dublin but id say its gotten good because of the Larger lads from Britain and local scummers starting punch ups in Temple bar.

I was out at a club a few nights ago and there was anarchy at one stage. I was chatting away to a bouncer when one severely drunk guy came up to me a called me "bouncer scum". I didnt look like a bouncer at all. I was wearing a suit with a red tie (it was graduation and I looked slick) and Im about 5'9-10 and way about 160 pounds. The guy gives me a push but he was wasted a fell over. The bouncer who I was chatting to jumps him with 3 others and pin him. Fights etc broke out when his mates saw him in trouble. The bouncers kicked all their asses.