How many fights have you been in?

I try and avoid fights as a grownup, but sometimes situation gets away from me. I always ensure that i use a weapon though, and get in the first hit so i have escaped without injuries. It only happened 5-6 times only.
 
Never. Not really do anything to avoid them, been in some pretty rowdy places, but they simply never happen to me. :)
 
fist fights with my brother... too many to count.
School fist fights - one, 10th grade
fights with the police - one.
 
I hope that was in the Battle of Seattle?
 
I've gotten into 3 fights when I was on the highschool football team. All 3 were during practice with my own teammates, but we always moved past them and remained friends. I think it helped that we were wearing pads and helmets.

The one I most regret, is I knocked our long snapper onto his back, on the ground. Than I stood over him and grabbed his face mask and start pounding his head into the ground. I am SOOOOOO glad I didn't break his neck or do anything serious, because I think it really could have happened.

Another time, me and our left tackle got into a fist fight, but we were in pads and helmets. We had no injuries at all.

And I got into a fight with my twin brother during a wrestling practice. I weighed in at 185 and he was ~210 and I was a lot better than him, so that pissed him off. He head-butted me in the forehead and it took a few stitches to close the wound I got. We called it an "accident" because neither of us wanted him kicked off the team.
 
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Apr. 26, 2009
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Here's a headline about one of Las Vegas' most troubled neighborhoods: "Naked City bares society's ills, but conditions slowly improving."

It was written in 1992.

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In the nearly two decades since then, Southern Nevada saw unprecedented growth and boom times. The valley's population surged, new houses sprouted like overfertilized weeds. Casinos, shopping malls, big box stores and new roads sprang into being to serve new residents and tourists.

Consider just the Strip. Since 1992, it has witnessed the openings of Treasure Island, the MGM Grand, Luxor, Paris Las Vegas, New York New York, the Bellagio, The Venetian, Mandalay Bay, the Wynn, Encore and Planet Hollywood.

Growth even touched the edges of the area near Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue known as Naked City. The Stratosphere opened in 1996, and the pricey Allure condominium building was completed in 2007.

But progress has been slow in the neighborhood of beat-up apartment buildings and 1930s-era houses, and it has remained a low-rent haven for crime, drugs and prostitution in the shadow of the Stratosphere tower, one of Las Vegas' signature buildings.

On Saturday, more than 400 volunteers gathered to spruce up the neighborhood. They picked up trash, pulled weeds from vacant lots, painted over graffiti and put fresh paint on fire hydrants and fire lanes.

It's meant to be a first step toward rehabilitating the neighborhood by building on improvements made by police and a handful of property owners there.

"We drive past this place every day," said Milan Sagato, a Stratosphere employee who signed up with several co-workers to volunteer. "People's point of view is there's just a lot of drug dealers back here. But there are families. Good, hard-working families.

"We always talk about how run-down it is. We figured we'd shut our mouths and do something."

The event was the brainchild of Walt Walters, who founded Trinity Security to watch over apartments he owns in the Northern Strip Gateway district, which is Naked City's official name.

"I got so sick and tired of all the crime, the crackheads, all the stuff that goes on down here," Walters said.

He met with city of Las Vegas officials and police to organize the cleanup, and said he's going to use officers from his company to monitor drugs and crime at night. The city also has promised to step up building code enforcement to get out-of-town landlords to stop neglecting their properties.

"I want to make sure that they know someone is watching," Walters said. "We're not going away."

One thing some hope will go away is the Naked City nickname. The story goes that, when the neighborhood was nicer, showgirls lived there, and people liked to cruise by because the showgirls spent time by their pools and didn't like tan lines.

An alternative tale is grittier. "Naked City" is the title of a noirish movie and television series about crime in New York City. When things started going south for the neighborhood in the 1970s, someone adopted the name.

The next event, as yet unscheduled, will be a concentrated effort to cover up graffiti. Some volunteers got a head start on that Saturday by covering graffiti scrawled on a mural on the back of Camille Duskin's apartment complex on Fairfield Avenue.

She and her husband, Gerry, have owned the property for 17 years and have started a nonprofit that pays artists to paint murals on buildings in the area.

The one on her building had been untouched until it was tagged a week ago. She thought about painting over the whole thing and starting over, but "that's rewarding people who created the crime," Duskin said.

This is the second time in recent memory that attention has been focused on fixing the Gateway district, she said. The first effort went off the rails because of the prospect of economic development.

In 2007, a sports arena was proposed on land just north of the Gateway district. Landowners in the area were approached with "telephone-number figures for the value of our properties," Duskin said.

The offers were nice, but it was disappointing to see upkeep efforts abandoned.

"They didn't want to do anything, because they were all going to be millionaires," she said.

"Even if that went through, it would take five years. People still have to live. You have to be responsible."

That deal fell through, although new negotiations are under way to build a sports arena next to the Stratosphere.

There are other kinds of deals the Gateway district is known for, but there's evidence those transactions are getting harder to pull off.

Metropolitan Police Department officer James Oaks said he knows crack addicts who are having trouble finding drugs to buy. Capt. Valerie Juick said police efforts are paying off.

"In the last 11 months, crime has been decreasing," said Juick, who heads the department's Downtown Area Command.

"As of two weeks ago, this is no longer a hot spot."

Of course, she said, "that can change tomorrow."

When I was a kid there were needles littered all over the floor. We couldn't even play outside :(
 
WTH is all this assuming I am a fight starter?

Dude punches you in the face, you knee him in the face, how is that a dick move or what ever :confused:


In any case the only reason I mentioned the story was because I was trying to give everyone some pretty straight forward advice.


Hmmm This thread is not good for my PR :(

I wasn't specifically referring to you. But yeah if you find your self fighting more than the average person (I don't know the context of your 5 fights but I guess it's average for our? age group) then I'd probably suggest changing your social tactics or the crowds you hang around.

No offense intended.
 
Too many times to count given I was bullied a few times at school, certainly double figures and probably treble figures if I count fights with my brother.
 
I am 22.


I've only been in one fight post living in Naked City. (and that was 6 years ago) *shrug*

Crackheads aren't getting at my billfold, under any circumstances.
 
I am 22.


I've only been in one fight post living in Naked City. (and that was 6 years ago) *shrug*

Crackheads aren't getting at my billfold, under any circumstances.

This is what is confusing me. In some of those fights were you defending yourself/property or what? You're lumping them all together with no context so it's hard for me to tell. Not that it's any of my business but if you're wandering why some responses have been negative that's probably it and maybe you could clear it up a little?
 
Oh okay, One fight was in high school.

My friend "stole" some ones girlfriend and they tried to jump him, so I got in it.

One new years some dude very overtly groped the girl I was with and I took it too far. I've talked about it on "the other site" But I would rather not here.


The other 3 people who were clearly on crack or meth tried to rob be because I looked weak (14 year old fat kid with a lisp)

You know how it is, they ask you for money, then they start harassing you and try to fight you for your billfold ....... :nono: I'll bet it was a while before they tried that again. One of the dudes even got arrested because a cop was driving by around the end of it.

Frankly, they are lucky I was only 14. I am still kind of traumatized by that......
 
Does fighting before grade 4 count? Cause I got into a LOT of fights back then.

The most memorable fight I was in happened over a piece of rope. True story:

Setting: Grade 2,

1. Me and 2 friends "find" a huge piece of rope on a construction site - it was at least an inch (3 cm) in diameter and was tied around something.
2. The three of us use a razor to cut it loose. This takes a couple hours
3. One of the friends gets bored and goes home
4. Me and the remaining friend argue over who gets to keep the rope (it was pretty long. maybe 15m? and dirty! and heavy)
5. The argument escalates into a fight, punches are thrown, we end up on the ground wrestling and punching eachother, etc. in the main lobby of the apartment building we both live in.
6. This goes on for a while, until his dad shows up, breaks us up, and takes my friend home.
7. The rope is mine!
8. I take the rope home and hide it. I think what happened then was my parents found it and told me to get rid of it, or I realized that I did not have any solid rope-hiding places at home. So, I did what any other 2nd grader would do, and spent the entire after-school time the next day cutting up the rope into as many pieces as I could - and then handing them out to random kids around the neighbourhood in hopes that my archnemesis would not be able to find all the pieces and re-assemble them back into the rope - which would have humiliated and annoyed me to unacceptable levels.

I'm generally a pretty peaceful guy, though, even though I threw a chair at a German kid in class once, because I could not resolve the situation at hand peacefully - mostly because I didn't speak German at the time and I was very frustrated. That sure showed him! He didn't see it coming, AT ALL.. I mean.. from the shy & quiet foreign kid who never says anything?

But yeah, I didn't even hit him, so nobody seemed to care afterwards.

Signed,

Peaceful guy who used to throw chairs at people
 
Does fighting before grade 4 count? Cause I got into a LOT of fights back then.



Peaceful guy who used to throw chairs at people


I made the over or under 14 thing because, well for one by high school most people are more reasonable.


And secondly, it is very hard to kill another kid when you are a kid with only your bare hands. As an adult it is easy, sadly :(
 
Once - a friend got into an argument in a club one night - we left - the guy followed us - he threw a punch and left me with a fat lip - I threw a couple of punches back - his friends came out of the club - we left very quickly
 
I got into so many fights as a kid I lost count. As an adult: not any. Well maybe a few if you count pugil sticks and combatives training.
Pugil sticks? Arent thoes the things similar to the ones in American Gladiator. I would probably have no problems using a Pugil stick since I have been using the bo in Karate for many years now.
 
None.

I was in a riot in LA following a Ramones show in .... 1986? Does that count?

Only if you pelted a cop with rocks and smashed a few storefront windows.
 
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