As it is relatively unusual to witness real life situations, for most people, I thought I would share one I witnessed a couple of days ago. Unfortunately it’s not particularly interesting, apart from one factor.
Driving home at tea time I stopped at a junction I stopped din a queue of cars waiting to pull out.
Accords the road I saw two men (early/mid 20’ds for a guess), one of them had the other in a head lock. My first impression was two mates horsing around, but quickly realised it wasn’t. I put my car window down a little to listen. Couldn’t really hear much but the man who had the head lock on released it and then started shouting at the guy who had been in the head lock telling him not to bully xxxx. I couldn’t hear the last word, so have no idea who xxxx was, so wasn’t entirely sure who this guy had been bullying.
During this time the guy who had been in the headlock was silent (or at least he wasn’t shouting so I couldn’t hear anything form him). After a minute or so the guy who had been in the headlock walked off, and the other guy walked into a takeaway.
The interesting part was that once the headlock was released and the two men started talking/shouting they did so at a very close distance, i/e sucker punch distance. It stuck out like a sore thumb, I just thought what the hell are you doing getting that close to each other. If one had decided to take a pop at the other he most likely wouldn’t have known anything about it until it was too late.
It's not unusual of course, most videos you see people get far too close to each other (or allow someone to get far too close) and end up getting sucker punched. It's why The Fence (or The Wedge or whatever name you chose to give it) is so useful.
Driving home at tea time I stopped at a junction I stopped din a queue of cars waiting to pull out.
Accords the road I saw two men (early/mid 20’ds for a guess), one of them had the other in a head lock. My first impression was two mates horsing around, but quickly realised it wasn’t. I put my car window down a little to listen. Couldn’t really hear much but the man who had the head lock on released it and then started shouting at the guy who had been in the head lock telling him not to bully xxxx. I couldn’t hear the last word, so have no idea who xxxx was, so wasn’t entirely sure who this guy had been bullying.
During this time the guy who had been in the headlock was silent (or at least he wasn’t shouting so I couldn’t hear anything form him). After a minute or so the guy who had been in the headlock walked off, and the other guy walked into a takeaway.
The interesting part was that once the headlock was released and the two men started talking/shouting they did so at a very close distance, i/e sucker punch distance. It stuck out like a sore thumb, I just thought what the hell are you doing getting that close to each other. If one had decided to take a pop at the other he most likely wouldn’t have known anything about it until it was too late.
It's not unusual of course, most videos you see people get far too close to each other (or allow someone to get far too close) and end up getting sucker punched. It's why The Fence (or The Wedge or whatever name you chose to give it) is so useful.