She must like it rough.
Odd how things happen in time for qotw.

On Saturday night, we'd been to a friends for drinks/smokes. We decided to walk the couple of miles home and on the way, seen a young couple having some kind of altercation in a bus shelter. (Stop sniggering at the back!). We were on a bridleway parallel with the road and, I think) remained unseen.

When I got close enough to see what was happening, it looked like this young woman was taking a serious shoe-ing from her bloke and both seemed to be even more pissed than myself. I think now that it may have sounded worse than it actually was. She was screeching like a banshee while he slammed her a few times against the bus-stop (creating a bass-drum effect) then flung her to the floor a few yards away.

My eyes widened from their cannabinoid slits to what felt like saucer-wide while the hairs stood up on my neck and my pulse quickened. All of my senses heightened to gather as much information as possible while deliberating whether to intervene. I couldn't just watch this girl be attacked in her man-friend's drunken fury. I have a young daughter myself. How would I feel if passers-by stood aside as she was beaten?

Then the deciding factor came. She picked herself up, screeching more obscenity peppered incomprehensibleness as she made her way back toward him. My view was obscured again but I then heard;
Him - "You berra fuggin gerrroff us"
Her - "Grreeeahhhheeaa"
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM* (Her being thrown against bus stop)
Him - "If you don't stop bitin' 'us ahhll fuggin deck yer!"
*Smack*
Her - "Urrgghhh BASHHHHAAAAAADD!!!"

At that point, Mrs Cloud and I ambled merrily on our way. There had been another young man next to them who also appeared not to intervene. I mitigated with myself that she seemed to give almost as good as she got, and asked for the rest, and that it would not be on my conscience alone if something serious occurred. Asides the normal instinct for self-preservation.

I still can't help thinking how shit I would feel if the incident turned up on the news as a serious attack or worse.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 10:43, 2 replies)

In situations like these
When the parties concerned are clearly drunk and stupid, I think it's better to let them fight in the hope that they'll exterminate each other.
(frankspencer, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 10:54, closed)

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It can be the woman who is violent you know.

I always remember a sob story from the girlfriend of a colleague after they had both been on the stella and wandered off arguing. She came back in tears "he hit me" though she had not a mark on her. We didn't see him till Monday when he showed us his shins completley black and blue where she had been kicking him repeatedly prior to him pushing her away.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 14:02, closed)