I've pondered that scenario on occasion, years back myself and a friend had just left a bar in town, a town that sees a lot of activity, wealthy folks in town for the races, went in for a few tasty beers, no big deal, was walking to the vehicle, someone in a car yelled some rude insult, I said eff off jerk, car immediately turns into the street where we were parked and into a parking lot, we continued walking to the truck, the car door flings open and out comes a crazed, drug fueled aggressor (think he was coked up, cracked up, methed up, definitely one of those kind of drugs) rushing at me with his arms a flailing. My reaction is, he's goin down, I let him come to me, like most of these guys, no clue how to fight, throwing punches at my face, I blocked all of them, I lost my cool, which could get you killed in a fight, and pile drived him with punches to the pavement, wasting too much energy, split him open above one eye and below the other, was a short wirey type, which can be hard to deal with, his better 1/2 comes out and jumps on my back and starts pounding me in the head, it hurt, never been clobbered by a woman, though I'd have knocked her out given the chance that night, that rule don't apply now, she came around one side and almost broke my nose, I stayed focused, calmed a bit and hit him in the most painful pressure points I could, groin, forearm etc. He reluctantly let go, friend finally gets her off my back, he's one to not get involved, what in heck were you waiting for, she could have had a knife or a gun. This guy gets up and wants more, so I got a car between us to rest up, was trying to get out of there before the police showed up, could not shake this jerk, was next to a pizza joint so I duck in there, this jerk on my tail, I figure I'll need witnesses, so I let him assault me in the pizza joint, he tried to headlock me, I dropped to 1 knee, flipped him over my shoulder and knife handed him in the throat, he's now gagging, move and I will finish you off! I rush out and get pointed out by the crowd. Who needs this crap, well the police came right over, crowds were pointing this melee out, so now I have to deal with it, aggressor turns out to be a well known criminal and drug addict with a long rap sheet, cops told me this, they knew him well. Ambulance comes and he goes away on stretcher. I don't recall what I was charged with, but $600.00 and an atty later, I believe it was dropped, not on my record. Pizza joint owner made a corroborating statement on my behalf, so does my friend, both witness to him assaulting me etc.
The thing that gets me, given a situation like this, the law kind of leads you to believe that you would be better off taking the beating, I mean I was charged, not sure if the assailant was charged but he showed up in court stitched up and 2 black eyes, might not have been a felony, not even sure if it was a misdemeanor, but the fact that I was charged and had to defend myself later in court at my expense, after I physically defended myself against an assailant, (had 2 witnesses to that) to me that is BS eff the damned laws, I did not ask to be assaulted. I told the judge that, during court, that if confronted like that again, I would do the same thing again, the right thing, stood my ground and would fight to the death if need be, there is no way I am taking any assailants beating in this life, and then letting it ride on the justice system, the assailant was fueled by drugs, and was very dangerous, he felt no pain after a hardcore beating, I mean I stopped at one point because I had his head against the pavement and was just pummeling him, enough is enough, you are beat, now go away, but this was not happening the drugs just kept him going, I was in real good shape too, sucker wore me out! These situations used to be rare, most will never face off with someone like this, but it does happen, we still joke about it today, who would have ever thought going out for a few beers after a long day of work would turn into this.
