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February 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM #516155February 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM #515326CDMA ENGParticipant
I love that whole “fear me cause I look gangsta” BS. I grew up in a high school full of that. Scared to death the first time I was in that same situation and wasn’t anymore after it was done.
Too many people in this world that wan’t you to respect (fear) them for the wrong things.
Instead of being respected for being a decent human being.
That guy got his just desserts. The old man walked away but should have shut up. So I guess he scores one point for at least trying to desolve the situation.
Obviously the old man wasn’t that crazy. He showed a lot of restraint. He could have easily beaten that guy to death. He didn’t. Just blew off the rest of his steam with a tyrad.
Also did you her the gal in the back telling him to beat the white guy?
Clearly there was enough racism to go around.
CE
February 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM #515467CDMA ENGParticipantI love that whole “fear me cause I look gangsta” BS. I grew up in a high school full of that. Scared to death the first time I was in that same situation and wasn’t anymore after it was done.
Too many people in this world that wan’t you to respect (fear) them for the wrong things.
Instead of being respected for being a decent human being.
That guy got his just desserts. The old man walked away but should have shut up. So I guess he scores one point for at least trying to desolve the situation.
Obviously the old man wasn’t that crazy. He showed a lot of restraint. He could have easily beaten that guy to death. He didn’t. Just blew off the rest of his steam with a tyrad.
Also did you her the gal in the back telling him to beat the white guy?
Clearly there was enough racism to go around.
CE
February 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM #515888CDMA ENGParticipantI love that whole “fear me cause I look gangsta” BS. I grew up in a high school full of that. Scared to death the first time I was in that same situation and wasn’t anymore after it was done.
Too many people in this world that wan’t you to respect (fear) them for the wrong things.
Instead of being respected for being a decent human being.
That guy got his just desserts. The old man walked away but should have shut up. So I guess he scores one point for at least trying to desolve the situation.
Obviously the old man wasn’t that crazy. He showed a lot of restraint. He could have easily beaten that guy to death. He didn’t. Just blew off the rest of his steam with a tyrad.
Also did you her the gal in the back telling him to beat the white guy?
Clearly there was enough racism to go around.
CE
February 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM #515980CDMA ENGParticipantI love that whole “fear me cause I look gangsta” BS. I grew up in a high school full of that. Scared to death the first time I was in that same situation and wasn’t anymore after it was done.
Too many people in this world that wan’t you to respect (fear) them for the wrong things.
Instead of being respected for being a decent human being.
That guy got his just desserts. The old man walked away but should have shut up. So I guess he scores one point for at least trying to desolve the situation.
Obviously the old man wasn’t that crazy. He showed a lot of restraint. He could have easily beaten that guy to death. He didn’t. Just blew off the rest of his steam with a tyrad.
Also did you her the gal in the back telling him to beat the white guy?
Clearly there was enough racism to go around.
CE
February 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM #516229CDMA ENGParticipantI love that whole “fear me cause I look gangsta” BS. I grew up in a high school full of that. Scared to death the first time I was in that same situation and wasn’t anymore after it was done.
Too many people in this world that wan’t you to respect (fear) them for the wrong things.
Instead of being respected for being a decent human being.
That guy got his just desserts. The old man walked away but should have shut up. So I guess he scores one point for at least trying to desolve the situation.
Obviously the old man wasn’t that crazy. He showed a lot of restraint. He could have easily beaten that guy to death. He didn’t. Just blew off the rest of his steam with a tyrad.
Also did you her the gal in the back telling him to beat the white guy?
Clearly there was enough racism to go around.
CE
February 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM #515331RaybyrnesParticipantIn my opinion our society might be a whole lot better off if this happened a little more often. I don’t care about black and white. What I am looking at is a punk who mouthed off and got his ass kicked fair and square. He even threw the fist punch. let’s get rid of knives and guns and just have a good old duke it out and shut up scenario. I would have liked to see this punk step off the bus and try round 2.
In all seriousness fights on buses, planes crashing into IRS buildings. Have we become this desensitized to violence. Something is wrong.
February 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM #515472RaybyrnesParticipantIn my opinion our society might be a whole lot better off if this happened a little more often. I don’t care about black and white. What I am looking at is a punk who mouthed off and got his ass kicked fair and square. He even threw the fist punch. let’s get rid of knives and guns and just have a good old duke it out and shut up scenario. I would have liked to see this punk step off the bus and try round 2.
In all seriousness fights on buses, planes crashing into IRS buildings. Have we become this desensitized to violence. Something is wrong.
February 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM #515893RaybyrnesParticipantIn my opinion our society might be a whole lot better off if this happened a little more often. I don’t care about black and white. What I am looking at is a punk who mouthed off and got his ass kicked fair and square. He even threw the fist punch. let’s get rid of knives and guns and just have a good old duke it out and shut up scenario. I would have liked to see this punk step off the bus and try round 2.
In all seriousness fights on buses, planes crashing into IRS buildings. Have we become this desensitized to violence. Something is wrong.
February 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM #515985RaybyrnesParticipantIn my opinion our society might be a whole lot better off if this happened a little more often. I don’t care about black and white. What I am looking at is a punk who mouthed off and got his ass kicked fair and square. He even threw the fist punch. let’s get rid of knives and guns and just have a good old duke it out and shut up scenario. I would have liked to see this punk step off the bus and try round 2.
In all seriousness fights on buses, planes crashing into IRS buildings. Have we become this desensitized to violence. Something is wrong.
February 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM #516234RaybyrnesParticipantIn my opinion our society might be a whole lot better off if this happened a little more often. I don’t care about black and white. What I am looking at is a punk who mouthed off and got his ass kicked fair and square. He even threw the fist punch. let’s get rid of knives and guns and just have a good old duke it out and shut up scenario. I would have liked to see this punk step off the bus and try round 2.
In all seriousness fights on buses, planes crashing into IRS buildings. Have we become this desensitized to violence. Something is wrong.
February 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM #515399scaredyclassicParticipantit is interesting to read comments on various internet news articles on the subject. It’s kind of a Bernard-Goetz-Lite incident that provokes heated responses in alld irections…, with various differences from the goetz scenario…butit is fascinating to see how people truly see the same event very differently.
My take on it is different than most of the responses ive read….The young dude definitely landed the first blow, or poke, or offensive contact, or however you want to characterize it. Just looking at that old guy, his general bearing, thickness, I think the little young guy was kind of crazy to go poke the old guy. The old guy just looked like he was going to win any fight, and that the old guy knew that he was going to win, and it was kind of dumb for the young guy to not pick up on that. It seemed liek the young guy didn’t believe he could win the fight, so afetr taking a halfhearted poke at the old guy, he steps away a bit, and the old guy unloads.
I’m not so sure the young guy really is a punk trying to intimidate the old guy. The young guy probably got a surge of testosterone, egged on by young females. This whole thing may be independent of race, perhaps. He goes up to the old guy who has retreated and pokes him after the old guy tells the young guy he would prevail in any fight. The young guy seems indignant more than like he wants to intimidate. I’m not saying they weren’t feeling each other out at the beginning. Just that by the time the young guy approached the old guy at the front of the bus, it didn’t seem to be in a manner calculated to intimidate. he looked like eh was trying to salvage his deluded self-image that he was a tough guy.
Anyone, I mean anyone regardless of age or race, who would approach a guy who looked as confident and crazed as the old guy and lay a finger on him would have to be ready to fight. I think in general if someone is eager to engage in combat, not just bravado, but truly eager and optimistic about their chances of winning, it might be better to let the fight go. It would be better to let virtually all fights go, but particularly that one. Interesting video to watch.
Some of the news articles commenters say they know the old guy, he’s “Vietnam Tom” a well known local whow as tasered at an A’s game.
February 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM #515540scaredyclassicParticipantit is interesting to read comments on various internet news articles on the subject. It’s kind of a Bernard-Goetz-Lite incident that provokes heated responses in alld irections…, with various differences from the goetz scenario…butit is fascinating to see how people truly see the same event very differently.
My take on it is different than most of the responses ive read….The young dude definitely landed the first blow, or poke, or offensive contact, or however you want to characterize it. Just looking at that old guy, his general bearing, thickness, I think the little young guy was kind of crazy to go poke the old guy. The old guy just looked like he was going to win any fight, and that the old guy knew that he was going to win, and it was kind of dumb for the young guy to not pick up on that. It seemed liek the young guy didn’t believe he could win the fight, so afetr taking a halfhearted poke at the old guy, he steps away a bit, and the old guy unloads.
I’m not so sure the young guy really is a punk trying to intimidate the old guy. The young guy probably got a surge of testosterone, egged on by young females. This whole thing may be independent of race, perhaps. He goes up to the old guy who has retreated and pokes him after the old guy tells the young guy he would prevail in any fight. The young guy seems indignant more than like he wants to intimidate. I’m not saying they weren’t feeling each other out at the beginning. Just that by the time the young guy approached the old guy at the front of the bus, it didn’t seem to be in a manner calculated to intimidate. he looked like eh was trying to salvage his deluded self-image that he was a tough guy.
Anyone, I mean anyone regardless of age or race, who would approach a guy who looked as confident and crazed as the old guy and lay a finger on him would have to be ready to fight. I think in general if someone is eager to engage in combat, not just bravado, but truly eager and optimistic about their chances of winning, it might be better to let the fight go. It would be better to let virtually all fights go, but particularly that one. Interesting video to watch.
Some of the news articles commenters say they know the old guy, he’s “Vietnam Tom” a well known local whow as tasered at an A’s game.
February 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM #515962scaredyclassicParticipantit is interesting to read comments on various internet news articles on the subject. It’s kind of a Bernard-Goetz-Lite incident that provokes heated responses in alld irections…, with various differences from the goetz scenario…butit is fascinating to see how people truly see the same event very differently.
My take on it is different than most of the responses ive read….The young dude definitely landed the first blow, or poke, or offensive contact, or however you want to characterize it. Just looking at that old guy, his general bearing, thickness, I think the little young guy was kind of crazy to go poke the old guy. The old guy just looked like he was going to win any fight, and that the old guy knew that he was going to win, and it was kind of dumb for the young guy to not pick up on that. It seemed liek the young guy didn’t believe he could win the fight, so afetr taking a halfhearted poke at the old guy, he steps away a bit, and the old guy unloads.
I’m not so sure the young guy really is a punk trying to intimidate the old guy. The young guy probably got a surge of testosterone, egged on by young females. This whole thing may be independent of race, perhaps. He goes up to the old guy who has retreated and pokes him after the old guy tells the young guy he would prevail in any fight. The young guy seems indignant more than like he wants to intimidate. I’m not saying they weren’t feeling each other out at the beginning. Just that by the time the young guy approached the old guy at the front of the bus, it didn’t seem to be in a manner calculated to intimidate. he looked like eh was trying to salvage his deluded self-image that he was a tough guy.
Anyone, I mean anyone regardless of age or race, who would approach a guy who looked as confident and crazed as the old guy and lay a finger on him would have to be ready to fight. I think in general if someone is eager to engage in combat, not just bravado, but truly eager and optimistic about their chances of winning, it might be better to let the fight go. It would be better to let virtually all fights go, but particularly that one. Interesting video to watch.
Some of the news articles commenters say they know the old guy, he’s “Vietnam Tom” a well known local whow as tasered at an A’s game.
February 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM #516054scaredyclassicParticipantit is interesting to read comments on various internet news articles on the subject. It’s kind of a Bernard-Goetz-Lite incident that provokes heated responses in alld irections…, with various differences from the goetz scenario…butit is fascinating to see how people truly see the same event very differently.
My take on it is different than most of the responses ive read….The young dude definitely landed the first blow, or poke, or offensive contact, or however you want to characterize it. Just looking at that old guy, his general bearing, thickness, I think the little young guy was kind of crazy to go poke the old guy. The old guy just looked like he was going to win any fight, and that the old guy knew that he was going to win, and it was kind of dumb for the young guy to not pick up on that. It seemed liek the young guy didn’t believe he could win the fight, so afetr taking a halfhearted poke at the old guy, he steps away a bit, and the old guy unloads.
I’m not so sure the young guy really is a punk trying to intimidate the old guy. The young guy probably got a surge of testosterone, egged on by young females. This whole thing may be independent of race, perhaps. He goes up to the old guy who has retreated and pokes him after the old guy tells the young guy he would prevail in any fight. The young guy seems indignant more than like he wants to intimidate. I’m not saying they weren’t feeling each other out at the beginning. Just that by the time the young guy approached the old guy at the front of the bus, it didn’t seem to be in a manner calculated to intimidate. he looked like eh was trying to salvage his deluded self-image that he was a tough guy.
Anyone, I mean anyone regardless of age or race, who would approach a guy who looked as confident and crazed as the old guy and lay a finger on him would have to be ready to fight. I think in general if someone is eager to engage in combat, not just bravado, but truly eager and optimistic about their chances of winning, it might be better to let the fight go. It would be better to let virtually all fights go, but particularly that one. Interesting video to watch.
Some of the news articles commenters say they know the old guy, he’s “Vietnam Tom” a well known local whow as tasered at an A’s game.
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