Dumfries story No. 2
This also concerns physical violence on the streets of Dumfries. Another couple of my mates, Iain and Bob, also stayed there for a while. They lived in a flat across the road from some sort of girls' refuge, which delighted them as the place had no curtains, so they used to spy on naked teenage girls getting out of the shower etc. What a pair of perverts - if they had been caught they'd be signing their names on a register every day. Anyhow, I digress.

One evening, they heard a bit of commotion in the street below, and on looking out of the window, saw a bloke being beaten up by a few others, one of whom was hitting the unfortunate victim with an ice hockey stick. The bloke soon fell to the ground, unconscious. Rather than phoning for the police or an ambulance, Bob and Iain continued to watch for a while. After a few minutes, once the assailants had all gone home to watch the telly or whatever, the victim suddenly regained consciousness, jumped to his feet, grabbed a convenient piece of wood as a weapon and roared, "Come on then, I'll take youse all!"

Then in a comedic moment, he looked around himself, realised there was no-one left to fight with, dropped the bit of wood and shambled home.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 12:29, Reply)