I'm writing this because I'm disturbed about something that I witnessed last night.

At about three o'clock in the morning, I was awoken by various shouts outside my apartment window. I opened the window and looked outside, and there was a gathering of people roughly my age (18-24) who were milling around and shouting at each other. I'm used to drunken antics at my apartment complex, as it's largely comprised of college students like myself, but this time something was different.

After a few minutes, I began to realize what was happening. There was a group of guys who were trying to instigate violence on another guy, whose sister was there. Why this was happening, I have no idea, but my suspicion is that drunken party antics got too out of hand and the testosterone started flowing at high speeds.

Suddenly, a cluster of four or five of the guys swarmed about the target of violence and kicked the shit out of him. The sickening part was that it all happened so fast and there were no sounds of "THWACK!" when the punches began to hail down on this guy. In short, this was a real-life episode, not something you see in a movie.

The victim's sister was obviously drunk but got down in the middle of the street, where the beat-down had occurred, and started screaming, "Look what they did to his face! Somebody call 911!" Within seconds, a cop car showed up and the big, burly police officer got out of his car and shined his flashlight into this guy's mangled and bloody face, all the while his sister was sitting there sobbing right next to him.

I was so sickened by the senselessness of it all that I immediately got out of bed and vomited into the toilet.

Is this how people treat each other these days? Is this all that we are on earth to accomplish: to band together in gangs and beat up people who have offended us in some way? Are we no better than animals who herd together and prey on weaker creatures for sport? A whole host of disturbing thoughts such as these flooded through my mind after witnessing this event.

Is violence such as this more prevalent in America than I had previously thought? The whole thing was over in thirty minutes, after the ambulance came, as though it had never happened.

I am still reeling from it a bit, though.

You are sheltered.

gnangle wrote:You are sheltered.

Yeah, I am.

and lucky that, by the sounds of it, you've never been on the receiving end of such violence

It's a tough world out there and we're just apes in clothes.

Something kind of like that happened to me.

I dunno, a large group of drunks with a Lord of the Flies mentality are very, very dangerous.

Question:

If victim of above mindless crime (or sister) had pulled out a gun and shot said apes dead in the face, would the world be a better place?


I vote yes

So, I suppose sickening violence could have its up sides too.

Earwicker wrote:Question:

If victim of above mindless crime (or sister) had pulled out a gun and shot said apes dead in the face, would the world be a better place?

Actually, I'm pretty sure that this would be completely counter-productive and detrimental.

Earwicker wrote:Question:

If victim of above mindless crime (or sister) had pulled out a gun and shot said apes dead in the face, would the world be a better place?


I vote yes

So, I suppose sickening violence could have its up sides too.

What are you, retarded? Go fuck yourself.