Wednesday, November 11, 2009

From across.

Minutes after we arrived at the usual roadside loklok stall, we heard some men shouting from across the street. A couple of them walked out from the club and started throwing forceful punches at each other, shouting mouthfuls of obscenities as they did. They fell to the ground admist all that flying punches, and more joined in. A few other guys came over to restrain those who were in the brawl. It looked like everyone was hitting the same guy; two of them got out of the fight, one with his face covered in blood (running all over his forehead, and down his cheeks), and the other pulling the bloodied-face guy away from the rest of the group. Someone picked a plastic stool up from the loklok stall from the road across and threw it at the two of them. Some girls from the group screamed when they saw what happened, tried to stop the fight by screaming some more. Clean-faced guy whipped out his mobile phone, called the cops (or backup, but I believe it's the cops cause they came down 5 minutes later).

Scariest 10 minutes of my day; there were no sound effects like when people throw punches on telly, but I think that's what made the real-life fighting scary. I stood there and watched in horror as the first 'live' fight in my life happened. We decided to have our loklok dose at the next stall, further down the street, just in case a big bunch of bloodied-face guy's friends turn up.

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