Handy Tip
Or how to tell you’re about to get your ass kicked.
Watch this video from where Great Britain Used to Be. If you’re wailing and screaming and huffing and puffing while the object of your aggression stands there calmly and quietly with his hands casually folded in front of him then it is probably a good sign he hasn’t quite felt threatened by you yet.
Via David.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I would have dropped him long before that.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I have not been in a situation like that since high school, more than three decades ago, and it still makes me angry to see someone harassed in that manner. What the video demonstrates is a cowardly fool working himself into enough of an emotional state to attack someone. Jon is correct to state that defensive action was justified and necessary the first time the idiot chav became confrontational and approached so closely to the gentleman.
I think the gentleman handled the chav in a very restrained manner, and I am very glad it was videotaped and put on YouTube to disgrace the aggressive idiot.
I am also amazed that this was a one-on-one confrontation; a few people calmly surrounding the idiot might have de-escalated the situation, or at least helped in restraining the idiot chav when he finally worked himself up to attack. Or, you know, maybe breaking every bone in his idiot body.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Britain has very odd habit of charging those who defend themselves. The gentleman was very appropriate, not acting until it was apparent his defense was necessary to stop the immediate threat of bodily harm. He could have acted at one of the earlier laying on of hands but would have been at risk of being charged as a belligerent. Instead he showed restraint, an effort to allow the situation to de-escalate and only enough force to stop the threat of injury. All would have seen him in good stead had he been hauled into court either criminal or civil.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
He had to be restrained. He has two black belts. That is called building a case.
October 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
When the defensive guy put up his hands into that martial arts stance I knew an asskicking was about to commence.
October 16th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I liked the crawling backwards part by the idiot.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
My hat’s off to the guy in the dark shirt. He showed a lot more restraint than I would’ve.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
The punk was lucky he lived in the UK; around here somebody would have kicked his ass about ten seconds into it, and then had the cops haul him off.
October 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Learned a new Brit slang term today …. “chav”. Seems to apply to most wannabe fakers in America. Like it and gonna use it often.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
White skinny ass kids street gangs…
We all know why this doesn’t happen in America, and I’m sure everyone here will keep it that way.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:01 am
What a paragon of restraint that man was.
The sad part is that in ‘modern day’ Britain he had to wait that long, even with videotaped evidence of an assault against his person, to avoid a likely charge being set against him.
October 17th, 2009 at 1:10 am
When you see someone take an angled stance with their leading hand “out and open” and the weak hand close to the chest, chances are they know what they’re doing.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with that kind of restraint, both before the fight and during.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:06 am
chav- Council-housed and violent.
In the coming Bad Times, they’re first on the menu.
Regards,
Rabbit.