Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "3 THINGS to do when PEOPLE STARE at YOU with BAD INTENTIONS" video.

@Bobby_Wasabbi I remember when I was a teen my Dad gave me the advice to always leave a brick outside the back door of bars and be the last one out the door if something started. It took me decades to understand the advice. He himself had been a marine in Vietnam and I have no doubt that he'd fight dirty if it came to it. The actual lesson was a few things. First off, never get into a barroom scrap if you're not invested enough in the outcome to cheat. 2 the other side will always fight dirty. 3 Fortune favors the prepared. 4 only an idiot goes to a bar expecting trouble and doesn't prepare for it ahead of time.
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It's been my belief for decades that if you've got the opportunity to back out, then take it. Just never turn a back to them and if you can't back out, then fight dirty, and I mean dirty. That's the time when a sucker punch to the balls is fair game, same for any bit of sand you can get into their eyes. If you've got a flashlight, and it's dark, definitely use it to blind them as well. Because believe me that the other side cannot be trusted to not cheat as bad, or worse. This is also why I tend to be fake drunk at bars on the rare case where I go. The moment I straighten myself up and it becomes clear that only one of us is drunk, it tends to open up opportunites for just letting it go. If any of that seems unreasonable in light of the current situation, then you don't really have to fight it's a choice that you're making. One of the issues that comes from these situations is that the courts are never actually there and evaluating things based on the information that's available to the people at the time.
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I haven't been a fight in many years at this point. Part of it is because I'm about the size of Mike Tyson and I can put most adults down with one blow. But, a large part of it is avoiding being places where I can't just back down or avoid the problem to begin with. Your Dad would probably like my Dad. He spent several years in the USMC and advised me to leave a brick at the backdoor of a bar in case I needed it and then be the last one out the door if there was going to be a fight. It took me a while to understand that he was saying to be prepared ahead of time if I was going to have a barroom scrap and that the other side couldn't be counted on to fight fair, I just needed to be prepared to end it before they could. Personally, I haven't needed to use the advice, but I do make every effort to have the situational awareness to avoid being in that spot, but if I do get in a scrape, I will fight as dirty as I can because if it's not important enough to cheat at, then it's not a fight that I have to be in/win in the first place.
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@nothuman1683 Why not? You do realize that you don't have to drink to be at a bar, you just have to be over the legal age to enter.
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@devilsoffspring5519 TBH, I think that depends where you are and how often you got. If you do go to a bar regularly, you'll know who the hotheads are and who the reasonable folks are. It also depends when you're there. Being there earlier in the evening probably also cuts down a lot on problems as folks are generally a bit less buzzed and a bit more likely to be going to work the next morning.
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