How to diffuse a “situation”.
This is what happens when 67 years of ornry meets 20-something of “talkin’ tough”.
The smack talk goes on for 1:30 before the actual smackin’ starts.
Yet one more reason not to ride public transit.
And yes, the 67yr guy’s shirt does say “I am a Motherfucker”
Didn’t take much to put the punk down, did it? I think the older guy slapped him around more than he actually hit him.
Now that is some quality Transit Theater there.
I started rolling on the floor at 2:16.
Dumbass.
Words are just words. Swing your fist and you just might have to pay.
I particularly enjoyed the bus-stop lawyer insisting ‘we can press charges, I have it on tape’.
I noticed that too …… after the old guy moves to the front of the buss, away from the situation, the kid follows, continues to press and egg on the situation, swings at the old man, gets the embarrassingly dirty end of the bargain,and that wiz says “we can press charges ……….”.
Put that one in the gifted program ! I’m sure there’s a lawsuit coming against the old fart in the future too.
When keeping it real goes wrong.
“Next time, I’ll fuck you up.” No, I don’t think he will.
Looks like the old guy was wearing a CCW type, black-leather fanny pack there. Fastex buckle, the usual format that kind of screams “concealed handgun in here!”
If so, I’d say his restraint in only using the punk for slap-bag practice was admirable.
Also if so, I’d say his continuing to verbally engage per what I saw in on the tape was not the most advisable course of action. Anytime I’m packin’, I’m also nearly embarassingly humble, as the last thing I want to do is participate in escalating a situation into an altercation.
Call me a one-man, armed, polite society. And yes, all the more reason not to ride the damn bus, where politeness might not be quite as prevalent.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX