Ever had a non alcohol-related skirmish with a random in public?

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Went to Alton Towers water park at the weekend (it was crap by the way, one relatively decent slide for which you have to queue twice) and on the way out of the pool, I was walking towards the lockers when I saw a large chap barge past a small girl heading for one of the few remaining lockers to put her stuff in it.

Small girl's dad then proceeded to verbally challenge the barger in an aggressive fashion, at which point the charger started f'ing and blinding. It quickly escalated to the point where both parties were fully laying into each other and tearing chunks out of each other's faces. I didn't stop and stare for long but park security was on the scene very quickly, and there was a fair amount of blood around the place. Park security were keeping them apart but in the same place, so I presume they were waiting for the police to turn up.

I just wondered how many people here have ever actually been involved in a public 'disagreement' with a total random, that has been as a result of anything other than being drunk, e.g. a queue barger, someone being lairy to your kids, road rage, etc? Personally I never have (come close a couple of times on the road) but I'm interested to hear of others' experiences, as people's aggression seems to heighten a great deal when they're surrounded by people they don't know or in certain environments. It was quite disturbing to see two people behaving like animals in front of their kids.

[To elaborate a bit more about Alton Towers Water Park, I'd imagine that it'd be a good enough day out for a family but don't bother going for wild rides with your mates. I think it was £14 per adult to get in.]
 
I once saw a guy in town grab and choke a security guard for no apparent reason. He was just walking and then turned to him and went mental. A nut job perhaps. Anyway a police lady (haha) turned up promptly and owned the crap out of the guy and he was soon carted away.
 
We had a few close calls when I used to work security at the ricoh arena when they had trade shows and the like on, those things can get pretty heated for very little reason
 
I knocked the hell out of a guy on the London underground once. He was knocking kids, women and even a disabled guy out of the way. He wasn't even registering their existence.

*****.
 
I had a disagreement with a homeless guy who wouldn't stop pestering me for money. I was polite at first but his persistence resulted in me telling him to **** off which made him angry. He was shouting up the street after me, threatening to stab me and generally causing a scene. When I was at a farily safe distance I aggrivated the situation by dangling my keys and shouting "See these? These are house keys."
He ran for me but I chickened out and ran away too.

I've never gotten into a fight though, drunk or otherwise. I usually have the presence of mind to make a swift exit or to resolve any disagreements without violence. The only time I have had to throw a punch or a kick was when my friend was being attacked on a night out and even though the eejit I hit was the one who started the whole thing, I still felt kinda bad for hitting him.
 
Road rage (either mate driving or my dad)
When some dick tried to rob my bag on the train, i think he was drunk though
Then on the way back when a kid (around 15) tried to rob my hat that was on my bag

Probably quite a few that i have forgot
 
This Monday just gone funnily enough I had a close call.

Cutting a long story short, I commute on a bike. Riding along a narrow road he overtakes, then pulls back in front of me just before we get to a give way section. He's indicating left, and positioned to turn into a petrol station just after the junction. I think he thought I was going to filter past his inside but I didn't - I let him go without issue. He pulls into the petrol station and winds his window down, ****** and jeffing at me, giving me the finger etc. I just gave him a big beaming smile and waved at him. :D

I thought nothing of it and rode off up the road. Next thing I know he's wheel spinning out of the petrol station, chasing me. He cuts me up and winds the window down and started to say he was going to get out the car and knock my block off, lol! I asked him why and he said it was because I waved at him. I pointed out that that was a response to him sticking his finger up at me and that it was his right of way - I hadn't come close to cutting him up etc. I asked him if it was really worth it, at which point I think he realised he was being a ****. The fight kind of just drained out of him.

He drove off. I'm hoping to see him again, I'll give him a thumbs up next time. :D
 
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Gilly said:
I knocked the hell out of a guy on the London underground once. He was knocking kids, women and even a disabled guy out of the way. He wasn't even registering their existence.

*****.
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Did he look anything like this?

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I always remember hearing a tactic if confronted with some angry nut job (drunk?). Rather than trying to argue your way our of it, or even use polite logic to get out of it, just say something completely random?

Supposedly this stands a good chance of snapping them out of "irrational anger mode"...

So just some random nonsense. eg: "Yes, I didn't see that purple day either!"
 
Lowe said:
This Monday just gone funnily enough I had a close call.

Cutting a long story short, I commute on a bike. Riding along a narrow road he overtakes, then pulls back in front of me just before we get to a give way section. He's indicating left, and positioned to turn into a petrol station just after the junction. I think he thought I was going to filter past his inside but I didn't - I let him go without issue. He pulls into the petrol station and winds his window down, ****** and jeffing at me, giving me the finger etc. I just gave him a big beaming smile and waved at him. :D

I thought nothing of it and rode off up the road. Next thing I know he's wheel spinning out of the petrol station, chasing me. He cuts me up and winds the window down and started to say he was going to get out the car and knock my block off, lol! I asked him why and he said it was because I waved at him. I pointed out that that was a response to him sticking his finger up at me and that it was his right of way - I hadn't come close to cutting him up etc. I asked him if it was really worth it, at which point I think he realised he was being a ****. The fight kind of just drained out of him.

He drove off. I'm hoping to see him again, I'll give him a thumbs up next time. :D
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Reminds me of a time I "saw red". Going around a big roundabout, and as I went to indicate left to move across and exit, a lady in a little smart car was rather stupidly undertaking me. Infact, if I hadn't looked I would have simply gone into her. So I beeped to make her realise she was driving stupidly (undertaking), and let her go by and pulled in behind her as we both took the exit.

Next thing her 'finger' came out of the window. I took a deep breath, purposely dropped back and let the matter slide...

About 500yrds later we came to another junction, with roundabouts again. She was heading left and me straight on, so as I made my way past I happened to go by (overtake) her...

What do I see? She slams her middle finger up against her drivers window!!

I'd let it slide before, but this time 'red mist' hit and I swerved infront of her and hit my breaks making her slide and skid to a halt. My index finger exited the window waving a big 'no... no... no...' and off I drove...
 
Once when I was on my way to Basvegas with a few mates in the car we went round a roundabout and a guy in a merc pulled out infront of me, but did it early enough not to cut me up so I wasn't fussed.

One of my mates was giving the finger to another mate in the car (Essex humour for you :p) and the guy in the Merc must've thought we were doing it to him..

Next thing we know the guy in the merc SLAMS his brakes on (it was a 50 zone so weren't exactly going slow) - The road was wide enough so I decided to undertake him rather than try and stop as no way would my car stop in time. The guy is then following us closely with his headlights and fog lights on and from the rear view mirror can see him slamming his fist on the steering wheel and can see him yelling etc.

He follows us to the basvegas carpark. Parks about 5 spaces away (big empty car park) gets out bright red steaming over to us, we got out and suddenly he stopped and you could see his face change and he scurried off....


Don't think he realised there were 5 of us and one of him :D

Although I was fully expecting to come back to find some damage done to my car, wasn't any though :)
 
Also a Basvegas story, witnessed two cars pull into an outside car park and both decided to go for the same car space, this thin guy got the space first and got out of the car.

The other car driver turned out to be a huge skin head chav thug type and jumped out of his car, grabbed the thin guy pinning him against his car. Screamed at him with multiple curse words creating large scene then punched the guy in the side of the head repeatedly.

The thin guy didn't know what hit him and just had to take it, unfortunately for the fat chav an off duty cop saw what happened from a distance and then broke up the fight and called police to take the chav away.
 
Nope, not since I was a kid. got chased by a prostitute once for not purchasing her services lol. she gave me loads of abuse and looked like she was going to hit me, i turned around and grabed my arse and I ran off . She was dog rough, trust me and I am not overly picky.

I was only walking to the train station, it just happens to be quicker to walk under "prossie bridge" than it is to go all the way around.
 
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