Originally Posted By: BISCUT
Originally Posted By: 1foxracing
Real smart to punch a guy wearing a full face helmet. Old guy is lucky the rider didn't headbutt him with it.
1st thing that came to my mind. They both are lucky; old guy because the biker coulda beat him senseless, and the biker because clearly he has no fighter skill set. Just me, but the aggressor deserved a split nose, roll em over and wait for cops to arrest him for assaulting the biker.
I've been in a couple of confrontations where extremely aggressive people have came up to me with harsh words and aggressive gestures, but never showed any (actual) signs of impending aggression. With that in mind, I'm not sure I'd expect a punch to the head in that situation.
The biker received the sucker punch, set his bike, and took the old man down. He knew he was filming, so he knew he had to be careful with his reaction. In the heat of the moment, things blur and knowing you're recording may be overridden by emotion. This guy yelled and cursed, but didn't respond to the aggressor in kind, with violence.
To those who say they would have pounded him: really!? When was the last fight you were in? I haven't been in a real fight (actual blow-for-blow kind of fight) since highschool, and even as emotional as I remember getting then, I'm smart enough now to let the consequences of retaliation far outweigh any desire for physical response.
For every one who said they would have pounded him for pushing their wife or gf, you sound foolish. [censored], the gf was getting all up in his face and probably would have taken that old dude out, had she been given the chance. She put herself in his path intentionally. SHE is lucky that her bf intervened and took the aggressor down, because SHE might have tried for a swing that might have cracked this old man's skull and landed her in prison. He was focused on her bf, so she could not have claimed self-defense.