Tonight I managed to catch a couple of guys brawling with each other. Fights don’t really happen here too often – certainly much less frequently than you would think – but from time to time there are a few scuffles among patrons here and there.
After a few minutes of pushing/shoving/pummeling/profanity/etc. the security guys (e.g. “bouncers”) managed to separate these guys. In the ensuing aftermath, I tried to glean as much information as I could. The police came and took a report and everything.
Evidently, the whole fight started when one guy went up to the other, asking if he could talk to him about “his religion”. The religious guy then went on to talk about whatever precepts comprise his beliefs and whatnot. The guy who was caught up in this listened politely and kept trying to get out of the situation (politely, again, as I understand it).
When the religious guy got to the point where “California gets so many wildfires because they legalized gay marriage”, the other guy took exception to this and the discussion became much more heated. They went back and forth for a little while, getting louder and louder, and the whole thing got out of hand when the religious guy took a swing at the other guy. All I know is a 13-pound bowling ball went flying through the air at that point, and the two guys started wrestling each other on the ground. Subsequently, they were broken up and the bouncers burst onto the scene.
All in all, it was very exciting, and added a lot of juice to an otherwise boring evening. I think I will start instigating religious zealots to get into arguments with other patrons. It will totally be worth the effort.
