Street Fights

Fighting on the street isn't all that uncommon here. Usually it's between two guys, but every once and a while you'll see a couple of women go at it. Not all skirmishes escalate into physical violence, mind you, but does it really make much of a difference?

Right outside my work today, two guys went at it. I could discern from the initial stages of the fight that a guy in the car almost hit some man or the man's wife. This made the pedestrian livid.

I was close enough so that I could clearly see the face of the man in the car. Talk about classic. He went from "What's the big deal?" to "Oh, it's on now" instantly. I guess the right, or wrong, were said to provoke it. The man then jumped out of the car and began yelling at the pedestrian.

This wasn't to be taken lightly, of course. The pedestrian was enraged enough to start throwing punches. People stepped in to hold the two men back, but they seemed to be doing a inadequate job, as the men kept getting at each other. In a last ditch effort, the pedestrian started hitting the car of the driver. I kept waiting for a rock to go through the windshield.

As usual, neither emerged as the victor.