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Apparently, this couple is in the middle of a fight when the woman decides to grab a big stick and knock out her boyfriend.
Safety tip: whenever your girlfriend grabs a stick during a fight, don’t just raise your hands to block it. As you can see in this video, it doesn’t work…
Maybe, just maybe, you better run and come back when she’s calmed down from whatever you said or did that ticked her off to the point of attempting to crack open your skull. Just a thought…
Here’s one that is making the rounds of the internet right now: A small guy and a tall guy are having an argument (no idea what it’s about). Things seem to heat up and then the small guy sucker punches the tall one with a left hook. The tall guy crashes to the floor unconscious.
Here’s what happened.
There are a couple lessons here: [Read more…]
In my post on How to survive a street brawl, I talked about how people forgo all reason and common sense when they’re in a violent situation like that. You’d think any semi-intelligent person would get the hell out of there when dozens of people start fighting. But as you could see in that video, very few people did just that. In fact, several of them placed themselves in even greater danger by doing foolish acts like turning their backs to the brawlers or walking right into the middle of the fight.
Several people talked about this point, both here in the comments section and on my Facebook page. The question that often comes back is “Why?”
And the list of questions goes on but the theme is always similar: why do people do stupid things like that?
I’m no scientist so what I’m about to write is purely subjective. It’s nothing more than my personal opinion and I reserve the right to change it at any point if additional information or experience tells me otherwise. That qualifier out of the way, here’s what I think:
People are increasingly out of touch with reality.
I’ll give you a couple examples in a minute but let me explain what I mean first. [Read more…]
If you want to know how to survive a street brawl, I’ll give you some pointers after I show you the video. But first…
Behold, a shining example of humanity’s finest specimen in action:
There are all kinds of idiotic things going on in this video beyond the brawling. The one that stands out the most is how people get sucked into the violence when they can perfectly avoid it. So if you’re looking to know how to survive a street brawl like this one, here are some suggestions: [Read more…]
Here’s an interesting interview: Lieutenant Dennis Tueller, famous for giving us the Tueller Drill gives an interview on the background and real meaning of his drill.
Take a look at the video with Mr. Tueller first, I’ll comment on it below.
Some thoughts on this excellent interview:
