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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I think the worst I've seen was outside my (old) workplace, group of guys were beating up a young guy. They had started to walk off but the guy got up and started taunting them again and they all rounded on him, kicked him to the ground right outside our door and were basically jumping on his head... the girl I was working with was on the phone to 999 in a panic and a couple of the guys had picked up a bottle and a brick and were turning back towards the guy, a group of my customers (who all had their noses pressed to the window watching) ran out the door and grabbed them thankfully, think I basically came seconds from witnessing a murder :/.

[edit] Should say my shop wasn't even down some dodgy back-alley or anything - this was right in the centre of town, in the middle of a sunny afternoon

omg that sounds horrific.

Oh I was thinking about your comment yesterday about self defense classes and how effective they would be in a real situation and my first thought was about this guy in my son's gym, now granted he's a 2 time world champion heavy weight amateur MMA fighter and has just signed a contract with Bellator to become professional. I have no idea what the guy was thinking when he went for him, I can only put it down to the fact that even though he's a big guy, he looks like he might be quiet, he doesn't look like a tough guy if that makes sense? Anyway, he was in a pub with his g/f and this guy just walks up to him and head butts him, he barely flinched because he's used to getting hit, he just grabbed the guys face and smacked him into a wall. The Police arrive and ask him if he wants to press charges and he just laughs and says Nah look at the state of him