ubercat wrote:What exactly did you do to either stop it or make people responsible for it?

Oh, right. You puked in a toilet.

You are exactly the kind of person I like to hate. In my mind you are far worse then the people that ganged up on this guy. You saw it, and you didn't do anything but cower and puke.

Man. Shit like this, little pukes like you, makes me wonder about where our world is headed.

Easy for you to get self-righteous about perceived cowardice from the safety of an Internet monitor.

Have you ever been confronted with a situation like that? What would you do?

I think I know what I'd do, but I'd like to know what you think you'd have done.

fiery jack wrote:Mob violence really sickens me, it's vile, cowardly, and I'd like a shocking punsihment to be meted out to perpetrators.

Like shooting them dead in the face.

Can I take it you're in agreement the world would be a better place without them?

galanter wrote:The one time I was in a situation like this rather than call the police (which would allow a good 3-5 minutes for the violence to continue...more than enough time for someone to die), I yelled out the window that "I'm calling the police right now!"

Stopped things immediately, and scattered those in the dispute.

Good move.

Earwicker wrote:Can I take it you're in agreement the world would be a better place without them?

I'm one week into the latest attempt to ditch nicotine. At the moment, I think that the world would be much improved with the painful removal of almost everyone, or maybe just the removal of me, depending on your outlook.

But yes, not to dodge the question, most definitely, I think the world would be better off without the sort of person who does this. Unfortunately I'm pretty much against capital punishment (unless, of course, anyone does anything to me or anything I care for, especially my cat,and I'm not joking), so I'd probably not arrange for their removal.

However, I've got a notion that there's a nice little doggy I'd like to introduce them to.

SecondEdition wrote:Easy for you to get self-righteous about perceived cowardice from the safety of an Internet monitor.

Have you ever been confronted with a situation like that? What would you do?

I think I know what I'd do, but I'd like to know what you think you'd have done.

Each and every time I'm confronted with a situation like the one in the thread, I don't think, I just do. Period. I've lost teeth, I've been beat silly, I've been choked out, I've got my left hand fingers broken, and I've even saved a few people's lives.

I'm the kind of fuck that does what's right. I do it when I'm not in danger, and I do it when I am in danger. I do it for people I know, and people I don't.

Anyone who knows me knows this to be true, and even a few of the cats on this board know it to be true.


And at the very least, after it was 'all over', I'd be on the street giving descriptions to the police. At the very least. And as a reflex I prolly would have done the same thing Glanter did - as I've done it a few hundred times myself (I lived in Spanish Harlem for about four years).

NerblyBear wrote:

gnangle wrote:You are sheltered.

Yeah, I am.

no shit, man.
Some dude got his ass kicked, happens every day. Probably had it coming.
You'd have cried for weeks if you saw the pistolwhipping I saw out my window one night a couple years back. That was fucked up.
Some dude was arguing with another dude, who had his family out there with him. They are all screaming.
The dude pulls out a pistol and points it at the family and screams that he's going to kill everyone.
He walks over and puts the pistol in the fathers mouth and talks shit to him, then takes it out and beats him over the head with it till he's unconcious and bloody on the ground. He points it back at the family, talks shit to them then runs away. The family picks the father up and they all go inside.
Cops never came.
The worst part is, from the sound of it it was all over a 20 dollar drug debt.
Yeah human beings are terrible, terrible creatures for the most part.

Marsupialized wrote:The worst part is, from the sound of it it was all over a 20 dollar drug debt.
Yeah human beings are terrible, terrible creatures for the most part.

Primarily because people are stupid enough to not pay their drug debts.

Marsupialized, that's a horrible scene to have to witness.

NerblyBear wrote:Marsupialized, that's a horrible scene to have to witness.

on top of it my roomate at the time and I were very, very high on ecstacy, we were on the balcony smoking a joint bullshitting when it went down right underneath us
he said, 'he's gonna kill him'
I said 'nah, he's not'
Then I said 'ehh, maybe he will'
then I said 'see, I told you he wasn't going to'
then we went inside

About 17 years ago a buddy of mine and I were walking down Sheridan Rd. up by the Loyola stop. Some dude yelled from a car, taunting: "Fuckin' gook!" -- he was blowing shit at the Asian guy walking in front of my friend, but my friend was entering a phase where he was getting into fighting (he's not like that anymore). He's Indian for Chrissakes, but was just looking for an excuse to fight, I think. Anyway, my friend spun around, yelling "What the fuck?" and strutted over the their car -- this jagoff gets out of the car and hits my friend on the head a couple times, with what appeared to be just his forearm (sporting a demonic, fucked-up grin throughout it all). Before I could even react, my friend crumpled to the ground. I couldn't figure out why, my friend was in much better shape and could've taken this pasty-faced fat ass no problem. Turned out dude had a lead pipe up his sleeve. Cops were called and a license plate number was remembered. My friend was walking around the neighborhood a few days later and the driver of the car stops him on the sidewalk. "Dude, don't press charges... my friend can't go to jail again." Turns out they were security guards off duty and fucked up. Oddly, I don't remember if my friend followed through with pressing charges or not. I still feel guilty for not reacting sooner and doing something about it, but it happened so fucking fast, I was in shock.