I have a friend who was punched one Christmas eve. He was walking home and was drunk enough that he didn't notice at first, and then he thought he might have been stabbed.
Another friend walked into a pub in Sydney and got punched for no reason, and then promptly walked out.
It is a sad fact of life that people want to fight for no reason whatsoever. Always best to try and diffuse the stituation with words first but if that fails it helps to have the skills to take them down. Even so you have to use reasonable force, in the UK the police arrest people defending their property for "unreasonable force". With great power comes great responsibility (cheesey yes) but there is no point hospitalizing some ignorant fool who had bad parents for no reason, just hurt him enough to enable you to walk away. I haven't been in a fight since I was 15 but I think that is due to luck more than anything else. Learning Taekwondo now so if there is no other option I hope to put some of these moves into practice. ;)
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Originally Posted by lyn1
My partners tells a story and it goes like this... One Christmas he was walking down a busy city street in Sydney with a mate when 5 guys (obviously sailors) were walking towards them. No one parted and the 5 just tried to shoulder my partner and his friend out of the way...thinking we're tough, no-one will take on 5 guys.
My partner and his mate turned and asked the guys what is their problem. They naturally wanted to fight. My partner was a boxer and happy to have a go, but his mate said no, leave it too me and only help if it was needed. He challenged the toughs 2 at a time. They happily obliged. It took 5 punches, 1 each to knock-out each tough guy.
When the police came, they asked what happened. My partner told them they were attacked. But, the police said what happened? The moral to the story was that my partner's mate was the #1 ranked heavyweight professional boxer of Australia. The police dragged the 5 away for creating a disturbance. In this day and age, it pays to learn self defence from a young age. The world has got aggressive and madder by the decade. If you haven't learnt yourself, at least get your children taught.
In the situation at the petrol pump, if the big guy didn't come along...to quote your words 'I'd be dead'. At least they could have said afterwoods. Gee, that fagg put up a good fight.
Lyn
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