Have you ever been in a fight?

[Studio117]

Its all well and good getting involved and trying to break up a fight but..

I was in a bar in clapham and 2 blokes were pushing each other, I went to step in the middle of them but out of nowhere one of the guys mates smashed a glass over his head followed by a bottle. Clarett everywhere, security where good and removed all of them very quickly though. Easily could have been me.

[AJS-]

Have fought off a mugger and ended up knocking him clean out, and got jumped by a bunch of pricks out of nowhere, for no reason as far as I can tell. But not a proper pagga since school.

I hate violence and avoid it at all costs generally. However sometimes I think it would be good to get all the instinctive, caveman stuff going and really batter the st out of someone. Or vice versa.

[Skii]

I got into a few fights at school, I was utterly rubbish in all of them.

[Landlord]

Only one. Against the missus. Started over the fact she'd burnt my Findus Crispy Pancake. I won though. Learnt her real good. Double result is that my pancakes are grilled to perfection every time now.

not true. any of it

[ewenm]

Skii said:

I got into a few fights at school, I was utterly rubbish in all of them.

Snap. I did find out that I was a good runner though

[captainzep]

Always avoided fights and tried to be everyone's mate, or been the 'grey man' on the street and never attracted attention. Essentially I suspect that I was frightened about how I'd fare in a fight, i.e. badly.

Having said that, I did choose a career which initially put me in a position of looking after violent people under the care of the NHS. Got trained in all the holds and techniques and later worked with some seriously scary people -who did try to kill me on a reasonably regular basis. It's not too bad when you've got colleagues around you and everyone knows what to do...

I remember after one particularly rough shift, walking home through town and seeing some big scuffle between French daytrip school kids and some local chavs outside McDonalds. Just handbags really. Crowd of people had gathered looking concerned and I just walked through the middle of it. I wouldn't do that now but it just shows how you can become immune to the shock of it.

[Tuvra]

Rather a lot whilst drunk, its very rough in the local town.

The Bad
Two of us got jumped by 4 after a disagreement in a pub (friend ended up in A&E). Also two of us got jumped by 5-6 after a disagreement in a Uni Bar (I ended up in A&E).

Also in a club I was leathering some guy on the floor (I had just seen him groap my GF at the time) when someone grabbed me round the neck from behind, massive haymaker over the left shoulder got rid of him, unfortunately it was one of the very nasty doormen, few of them then grab me and try to give me the usual treatment - few sneaky punches followed by an attempt to throw you down about 15 stairs and if your still conscious (most people wernt) they would give you a severe kick in at the bottom and say you "tripped" whilst being escorted out to the Police/Ambulance, I had seen the same thing happen to my friend the week before (mate was sleeping in the club). Luckily I managed to grab the banister half way down, retain my feet and leap the last 5 or 6 steps, kick the fire exit open and run like f***, I never went back there and it closed shortly after, mainly because of the heavy handed door staff. Ohh yeah, I was dressed as Scooby Doo at the time and I think the guy that got a pasting was some sort of chicken, apparently it was hilarious to watch

The Good
Two come to mind.

On the Taxi rank after a night out & now on my own, there was no queue and quiet, I see a friend on the rank (taxi driver) with two cars in front of him, I ask him if he can run me home rather than the front cars, my friend agrees and states "Yeah no worries I know the two cars in front their sound", I then get some 'roid head "Taxi Marshall" spot what was happening "OII Mate, get in the front car" really abruptly, I looked at him confused and reply "It alright, he knows the front two cars they will be fine", front two taxi drivers tell the Marshall the same thing but hes not having it.

My friend says "F*** him jump in", as I go to do this the marshall is now grabbing me and restraining me getting in the car, I abuse him a bit before he strikes me, my patience have now been exhausted and we start scrapping, the guy was like a bag of st and pretty soon I had him pinned on the floor and giving him a few slaps. Then, like the earlier story, someone ineffectually grabs me from behind, it goes away and I carry on, very shortly after a few Police men grab me and chuck me in their van which was parked across the road and seen the whole thing. Turns out the ineffectual "grab" came from a small female Police officer who was new to the job, she was then tasked with giving me a talking over in the van, turns out she was looking to do me for Racism, Sexism, Assaulting a Police Officer, GBH, Assault, Disturbing the peace and a few other random things. Although I denied most of the charges, I thought I would get done with Assaulting a Police officer (unintentionally) and assault. Then the main guy in charge jumps in the van to see how its going and what she thought my punishment should be, when she explained what she intended to charge me with he was shocked and said the charges were nonsense. I then had a chat to the Police officer and explained the situation from my point of view, he agreed I acted in self defense and apologised for the overly keen female officer, he then revealed the Marshall had been arrested for Assault as he had done something similar the week before, the Police officer then gave me a lift home and I rode shotgun in the front with a van full of officers

I seen him in the same place the following week and he revealed the Marshall had been charged with two cases of assault and removed from his position. Top copper that chap was!!

Another - Very long story short, out as a foursome, the other girl in the foursome beats the crap out of some girl for accusing her bf of filling her up (girl making the accusations was a compulsive lying attention seeker), later that night her friends throw a can of strongbow at our group and it kicks off again. Outside it seems to have calmed down so my male friend goes in the kebab shop and I wait outside with the two girls, I then see another couple I know and start chatting with them, the girls are now 10 yards away. After a few minutes I see some guy in my GF's face, I take a minute to listen what was being said, this guy was now becoming pretty threatening shouting in the girls faces.

I say my good bye's to the couple and walk over to ask whats going on (calmly), guy says "Its fk all to do with you so fk off", I then inform him that the girl hes shouting at is in fact my GF, at this point theres a mixed group congregating behind Billy Big bks and he says "So what, what you going to do about it?" I didnt hesitate and smacked him square between the eyes, he went straight down and again I proceed to give him a few slaps on the floor, at this point the other male in the group comes running out of the kebab shop and rugby tackles me off him and theres 3 of us on the floor, guys mates are now all round us looking very annoyed but luckily none had the balls to strike us, then like something out of the A-Team, his Uncle screeches up in his Transit Mini bus (taxi), jumps out flies the side door open and orders us all in, we all dive in laughing for some reason? He slams the door behind us, we peer out and there's loads of the bds preying for our blood, mixed group of about 15-20, we throw some abuse at them and laugh all the way home. Turns out another friend (taxi driver) had pre-warned my friends uncle about the situation and he was on his way anyway, lucky really.

Strange thing is that I am quiet, its just round here fights are common and theres lots of scum bags looking for trouble. 3/5 incidents above happened on the same stretch of road which features the local towns fast food joints and taxi rank, years ago FHM voted it the most likely place in Britain to get beaten up so you really have to look after your self sometimes

The only good thing about living here is that weapons are unheard of...

[Dixie68]

My brother has a funny fighting story... sort of. Him and two mates were in an area they would normally steer clear of and decided to pop into a pub for a swift pint. Before they went in my brother had a quick word with one of his mates who tends to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, warning him to be on his best behaviour as it was a rough place. They walk in, the doors close behind them and his mate shouts, "evening wkers"!
My brother woke up in hospital.

[MattMF1]

Dixie68 said:

My brother has a funny fighting story... sort of. Him and two mates were in an area they would normally steer clear of and decided to pop into a pub for a swift pint. Before they went in my brother had a quick word with one of his mates who tends to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, warning him to be on his best behaviour as it was a rough place. They walk in, the doors close behind them and his mate shouts, "evening wkers"!
My brother woke up in hospital.

That one had me in stitches

[Darkk]

Dixie68 said:

My brother has a funny fighting story... sort of. Him and two mates were in an area they would normally steer clear of and decided to pop into a pub for a swift pint. Before they went in my brother had a quick word with one of his mates who tends to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, warning him to be on his best behaviour as it was a rough place. They walk in, the doors close behind them and his mate shouts, "evening wkers"!
My brother woke up in hospital.

HAHAHAHA Brilliant!

[Use Psychology]

Tuvra said:

I then inform him that the girl hes shouting at is in fact my GF, at this point theres a mixed group congregating behind Billy Big bks and he says "So what, what you going to do about it?" I didnt hesitate and smacked him square between the eyes, he went straight down and again I proceed to give him a few slaps on the floor,

...

Strange thing is that I am quiet, its just round here fights are common

they would if be if you just go around ttting people (admittedly for being knobs). why not just walk away?

[Landlord]

MattMF1 said:

That one had me in stitches

Sounds like it might have had Dixie68 in stitches too.

[monthefish]

OldJohnnyYen said:

a lad of 7 or 8 walked up and punched my 2yo girl in the face,

WTF?

[anonymous-user]

I have never, ever been in a fight in my life... and I'm 32 now.

Never started one, never been on the receiving end of one.

I'm not too sure what that says about me! I'm a very calm, passive person.

I've been in a few confrontations whereby people have been verbally aggressive towards me "I'm going to smash your fking face in" etc but nothing physical has ever come of it.

I'm quite a logical/calculating person and I just don't see the point in a fight. Why get my pretty face bashed in?

If someone tries to start a fight with me, I'm much more likely to back down, apologise even if it wasn't my fault, then destroy their property at a later date or anonymously grass them up to their employer/girlfriend/wife about something.

What goes around comes around.

I get my own back on aggressive fight starting tts, but it won't be via a fight!

Edited by NinjaPower on Tuesday 21st August 21:57

[Benten]

Got into 2 as youngster - primary school sort of thing 2 draws you would probably say.

I avoided a fight in high school as the boy was older than me, this news somehow filtered through to the family. Which was met with disgust coming from a family of men who loved fighting. I was sent to boxing at about age 16 and I have never had any real need to use it whilst uptown. (touchwood)

[ewenm]

Studio117 said:

one of the guys mates smashed a glass over his head followed by a bottle. Clarett everywhere

You'd think they'd have chosen an empty bottle. No point wasting a decent Claret, what?!

[Dalto123]

Dixie68 said:

My brother has a funny fighting story... sort of. Him and two mates were in an area they would normally steer clear of and decided to pop into a pub for a swift pint. Before they went in my brother had a quick word with one of his mates who tends to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, warning him to be on his best behaviour as it was a rough place. They walk in, the doors close behind them and his mate shouts, "evening wkers"!
My brother woke up in hospital.

The only fight I've had has been a school one. Albeit to a particularly nasty kid who picked on me a lot. To be blunt, he would always start one me, and I'd avoid it. This time I decided to initiate the fight (a first for me), and kick him in the balls. As ashamed as I am to admit I hurt someone, it felt pretty good

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

Im not allowed to talk about it.


...really, 6 pages and no-one?....you guys are slipping

[Tuvra]

Use Psychology said:

Tuvra said:

I then inform him that the girl hes shouting at is in fact my GF, at this point theres a mixed group congregating behind Billy Big bks and he says "So what, what you going to do about it?" I didnt hesitate and smacked him square between the eyes, he went straight down and again I proceed to give him a few slaps on the floor,

...

Strange thing is that I am quiet, its just round here fights are common

they would if be if you just go around ttting people (admittedly for being knobs). why not just walk away?

Chances are he would have done the same to me if I didn't do it to him first. Considering the gang with him I wouldn't have fancied the unconscious shoeing I would have got either

Knowing the group and the people involved, I have no regrets about that night.

[Bradgate]

Never since primary school.

I am a calm, sensible individual, the opposite of a hot-head and I try to avoid situations which might end in confrontation. I am lucky enough to live in a lovely village, have nice, liberal, well-educated middle class friends and haven't visited a nightclub in years.

Road rage? You must be joking. Life is far too short to get into conflict about trivialities.

I enjoy a pint or three but I have always been able to 'hold my booze'. So many otherwise perfectly reasonable people sadly turn into aggressive, mouthy aholes after a few pints. I am very fortunate in that I don't.

Edited by Bradgate on Tuesday 21st August 15:25

Edited by Bradgate on Tuesday 21st August 15:38