Outonball... you don't think that juveniles are capable of attacking someone just for kicks? Come on! Why does this seem so absurd, and why is this person under attack?
Unguided children, raising themselves in a one parent home or one in which both parents work constantly as they try to dig themselves out of tremendous financial debt, are an increasingly common situation these days, in wealthy neighborhoods, poor neighborhoods and everything in between. I have no doubt that many of these children teach themselve's how to behave by pushing the limits of our law based society.
So, I certainly agree that this type of situation can happen and that the thought of five juveniles attacking someone just for kicks is not so absurd.
However, I don't believe the poster is being forthright with his rendition of the incident, or including all the facts surrounding his situation.
My guess would be that the attack happened as a result of several small disagreements between the OP and these juveniles finally coming to a head. Maybe the OP parks his car in the way of their skateboarding area, maybe his dog is always barking at them, maybe he has accused them of vandalizing his property or they exchanged looks or words for any number of other reasons.
Add to this, the fact that from what the OP states, he is considerably larger and stronger than these youngsters and therefore, not at all afraid of them, not intimidated by their stares or suggestive body language. In fact, at one time or another he may have even said to himself, “I just wish one of those little punks would take a swing at me so I can show them a serious a$$ whoopin".
Why do I believe this is more likely the way it went down, I guess because I’ve been in similar situations growing up and I never recall any being as innocent as the OP makes it sound here. Call it a guy thing.
Anyway, the inevitable does eventually happen and both the OP and his attackers have probably been waiting for this opportunity to teach the other a lesson. The juveniles, depending on their size and even though there were five of them probably realized early on, that they were out of their league. In fact, if the OP just knocked the largest, toughest acting one of these juveniles on his disrespectful a$$, the others would probably want nothing to do with fighting the OP, and is perhaps why only one of the five attackers pinched his own neck.
Another reason why I have a hard time swallowing that the OP did nothing in response to five juveniles knocking bags from his hands, spitting in his face and swinging at him, is that it would only be natural for someone to at least protect and defend themselves from this attack.
I try to place myself in the OP’s shoes and let me tell you, If I was attacked by five juveniles in the same manner as the OP has described, you can bet your gullible a$$ that I would have aggressively defended myself and I’m sure I would hurt one or more of them in the process. Once they were no longer attacking me and no longer a threat to my safety, I wouldn’t continue to beat on them. I would probably help them up and try to have a heart to heart talk with them. Depending on how that went I would then more than likely attempt to contact their parents or call the police myself to report what had happened.
The difference between myself and the OP in this case, is that I don’t see anything wrong with protecting myself from whatever harm these juveniles had hoped to inflict on me. I take my health very seriously and I try to avoid physical confrontations as well as any of the typical places where these things occur. Like bars, nightclubs etc.. So if I’m attacked by someone who intends to do me harm, I’m going put forth every defensive and offensive move I know, in order to stop the attack as quickly as I possibly can.
Then, if I were to post the situation on a site such as this, I would provide all the facts, including the one where I broke some kids nose, because it is what I felt I had to do to at the time, to stop the attack.
But to say that one of the bag kicking, spit spewing, arm swinging insubordinate little monsters pinched their own neck, well, does that sound like what actually happened to you?
Then, in addition to what triggered my bull$hit detector, the police who were physically at the scene of the fight and who spoke with all parties involved, proceed to arrest this poor guy for assault in the 5th degree.
So here again, I’m getting the same suspicions that there is more to the story than the OP is willing to tell. Especially since the OP claims his record is squeaky clean. Does it make any sense to you, that the police would not want to hear what this law abiding citizen had to say? Do you really believe that the police wouldn’t consider the fact that this person has gone through life for 34 years, without being in any trouble before determining who and what they believe occurred?
Not to mention the fact that if these juveniles were as you put it, violently attacking a citizen for no reason at all, I would have to believe that this was not the first time they had some explaining to do to the police, who would naturally begin to question their credibility after responding to another incident they were involved in.
So, I hope this explains why I doubted the OP’s rendition of the event.
Also, I wasn’t trying to attack this person. It may have read that way, to you and if so, I apologize. I was actually being facetious and preparing the OP for what I believe, would be the most popular opinion.
