How were you raised?

blt2krawl

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While i'm not an advocate of this type of thing I really wanted to ask peoples opinion on it given the situation. I was raised to always be respectable and fight fair, but last night at my fraternity party I was jumped. This happened when I tried to break up a fight (I was working security) and a guy in another fraternity was running his mouth. I sat him on his a** and then I was jumped on be 8 guys, in the process I broke a beer bottle over one of their heads. My question is since when has 8 on 1 ever been the way you fight? I sure wasn't raised that way! I also wondered if anyone here thought I was in the wrong for defending myself and if I should worry about this guy pressing charges and me actually getting any problems from it?

Thanks, Nic
 
blt2krawl said:
While i'm not an advocate of this type of thing I really wanted to ask peoples opinion on it given the situation. I was raised to always be respectable and fight fair, but last night at my fraternity party I was jumped. This happened when I tried to break up a fight (I was working security) and a guy in another fraternity was running his mouth. I sat him on his a** and then I was jumped on be 8 guys, in the process I broke a beer bottle over one of their heads. My question is since when has 8 on 1 ever been the way you fight? I sure wasn't raised that way! I also wondered if anyone here thought I was in the wrong for defending myself and if I should worry about this guy pressing charges and me actually getting any problems from it?
Thanks, Nic
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1. When you say "sat him on his a**" what exactly did you do and what was he doing to deserve it? was he in the fight you tried to brake up or just instigating it?

2. 8 on 1 sounds pretty rough but I'm not surprised...you were at a fraternity party and people were drinking but that also makes me wonder, where were your frat brothers when you were getting jumped?

All else aside it sounds like a pretty crappy situation but if you got jumped by 8 guys I wouldn't worry about having charges pressed against you.
 
I was defusing a situation, which the guy the first started with instigated. I was trying to get a random guy to leave calmly when the guy in the other fraternity which I know came back over running his mouth to the guy again and shining a flash light in his face. Then to be a dick he started shining it in my face, I told him nicely to stop, when he didn't I pushed his hand out of my face. He then took a swing at me, missed and I laid him out. When I did thats when all his brothers jumped in. As for my fraternity brothers, my blood brother jumped in, and two of m fraternity brothers, and then it even escalated farther from there. I don't wanna go into me being pissed off, that once again my brother didn't get involved, pretty crappy on their part.
 
If i'm ever out numbered I will do anything and use anything to defend myself, I've had a couple of friends jumped and it turned out really bad. After one of them was jumped he always carried a knife or two. He got jumped outside a bar and he walked away with a black eye and a broken jaw... 3 of them were rushed to the ER with stab wounds, and he didnt get charged with a damn thing
 
You know I am starting to feel like that is the solution to the problem. I think my better judgement was to be done with it all along.
 
had a friend that happened to go to a frat party one night (non-member) and quickly found himself surrounded by more than a handful. His buddy stepped in and they stood back-to-back delivering haymakers until the mob dispersed. He was a huge country boy that loved laying folks out so he faired alright. However, if that happened to me I'd say I'd have a 50/50 chance if I had help.
 
BRUISER said:
I was raised to stay away from frat parties :)
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yup.

also...you were "working" security? or were you just the guy they gave the shirt too?

big difference

I wasnt there, i dont know what happened. but there is a right way and wrong way to calm the room. given the results, looks like you tried the wrong way.

Dont take offense to this, but part of being a good drinking environment security detail is having an imposing aire about you. You have to be able to command respect from the crowd. If there is no respect from the crowd then there is no point in you being security.

Next time, maybe pass on the whole security deal. or carry mace.

:beer:
 
I took on 4 latin kings in the Bronx once when I was on the carnival. They didn't want to get off the ride fence.

I took a good beating, but so did they. I got 2 of them in the nuts before I took the first good shot.
 
I really don't care for frat boys because thats what they do,They can't fight on their own.If you had been at a (redneck) party then they would have let you fight it out and then broke it up and made you drink a beer and (at the best)shake hands....you get what you deserve (or set yourself up for)JMO.
 
I was taught there is no such thing as a fair fight and carry a big stick.
 
Ha, i remember getting in a big fight one time, it was 5 on 15 or so, down to the last few of us left standing when the cops showed up. i was going toe to toe with this guy they called "tank". things were going well between the two of us, i was holding my own. I knew there werent many people left so i wasnt worried about some one coming up behind me anymore. Got control over the adrenalin and was fighting comfortably. a little too comfortable.

i looked over my shoulder to see where the cops were. as soon as i looked away i knew that was a horrible mistake.

I have never been hit in the face that hard in my life!

I didnt go out, but things got blurry and i had to fight dirty at that time. ears dont come off whole like they do in the movies.
 
hunterdan said:
Your my hero...(ears don't come of whole)...man your ruthless
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ha, my motto is " you dont have to win the fight, you just have to make your opponant never want to fight you again".

i've lost a few fights......but most folks would rather be my friend afterwards than have to fight me again.
 
Do you really want to know???? Well I was raised that drinking,in any capacity,was wrong.Fighting was a last resort and anything that is goin on after 11pm will be trouble.If you went to a bar and had trouble that was what you deserved for bein there.
Disclaimer.I'm not saying I always followed these rules but that's how I was raised,but as I get older I see they were'nt far from the truth.
 
Ain't no such thing as a fair fight...
 
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