I just got popped in the jaw for no reason

tallbobsmoketallbobsmoke 715 Posts
edited May 2006 in Strut Central
I was waiting for the bus on Mission street and about five dudes came walking down the street. They were all loud and talking shit to people. I tried to ignore them. One of them came up to me, called me a poindexter and popped me in the jaw. My glasses flew into the street. What the fuck? If I'd have fought back I'd have been jumped. I went to a bar and asked to use the phone to call the cops. It didn't do any good because I was too afraid to talk to the cops and point out who did it. They would have known it was me and I would hate to deal with that another night while walking down mission street alone. He didn't hit me that hard and I suppose it could have been much worse, but it is so fucking UNFAIR.
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  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,850 Posts
    Let karma do its work. I've been in similar situations. Someday they'll step to someone who's carrying a knife or a gun, and then they'll piss themselves.

  • yuichiyuichi Urban sprawl 11,331 Posts
    i woulda helped you out man! my counterpunch is deadly.

    oh and just remember, they get no butt dogg.

  • street_muzikstreet_muzik 3,919 Posts
    Sorry to hear about your misfortune, but dude, are you new to the Mission? When I lived on 24th between Shotwell and Folsom, I had a few street scuffles. One was at 10 am on crowded 24th st. We ended up fighting in the middle of the street stopping traffic. I kicked dude in the stomach real hard but I took a beating that day.

    It wasn't uncommon to see people get punched in the light of day. It also wasn't uncommon for someone to get a knife in the neck at night. That's why I always carried a bottle, a steak knife, and sometimes something else. That was 10 years ago so maybe things have changed.

  • DWGDWG 334 Posts
    I went to SF in February for work; part of my job was conducting research for a major sports brand. This involved filming people and asking them questions and also getting a bunch of overview shots of the streets and city.
    Mostly, this was cool. We asked people before we filmed anything, just making sure we didn't piss anyone off, and we met a bunch of cool folks.

    Filming on Haight, we had some guy clock us and scream at us to stop filming his street or he'd come over and fucking shoot us. Then he pulled out his gun to show that he wasn't playing.
    We made vocal apologies and moved on up the road, but I was PISSED. After filming Amoeba and FTC, we hopped into a cab - and drove past the guy 'with the gun'. As we sped past, I checked no-one else was near him, opened the window and threw a big custard-filled cake into his face. I hit him full-on and drenched him in fondant.

    I'm not sure if I've ever felt such a sense of satisfaction; the big scary gunman covered in custard and pastry. He looked like a clown.


    On a separate note, in London right now there's a real epidemic of young kids taking knives to school and stabbing/killing other kids. We've had about 5 or 6 incidents in the past few weeks, leaving a few people dead. Probably nothing new, I guess, but it seems to be happening with increasing regularity. Last Thursday, some guy shot a businessman in the face for accidentally bumping into him and that was during evening rush hour on one of the main streets in town. The same gunman shot a random woman 30 minutes later as well.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    Man that sucks. The tables may turn on dude one day.

    What Taza says is real though. Don't let the white leather belts and hipsters fool you, the Mission is still hoody in many parts.

    I saw a hectic fight right in the street outside Skylark; got blood all over my shoes and I wasn't even involved!

    And then there's the time I saw some drunk fratboy/football player type white guys talk shit to the trannies outside that Mexican bar on that same block (accross the little alley from Panch Villa). The bar emptied out and these guys got brutally beaten, broken bottles, etc.

  • theory9theory9 1,128 Posts
    I almost got jumped outside the Warfield by a couple of bums after a Tool concert in '96. Place is real.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts


    On a separate note, in London right now there's a real epidemic of young kids taking knives to school and stabbing/killing other kids. We've had about 5 or 6 incidents in the past few weeks, leaving a few people dead. Probably nothing new, I guess, but it seems to be happening with increasing regularity. Last Thursday, some guy shot a businessman in the face for accidentally bumping into him and that was during evening rush hour on one of the main streets in town. The same gunman shot a random woman 30 minutes later as well.

    That's disturbing.

    I've been to some bashment clubs and seen some yardies with guns, but other than that my late nights in London have been largely free of drama.

  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts
    I'm not sure if I've ever felt such a sense of satisfaction; the big scary gunman covered in custard and pastry. He looked like a clown.

    HAHA, that's a cool way to retaliate without stooping to his level. Nice one.

  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    I went to SF in February for work; part of my job was conducting research for a major sports brand. This involved filming people and asking them questions and also getting a bunch of overview shots of the streets and city.
    Mostly, this was cool. We asked people before we filmed anything, just making sure we didn't piss anyone off, and we met a bunch of cool folks.

    Filming on Haight, we had some guy clock us and scream at us to stop filming his street or he'd come over and fucking shoot us. Then he pulled out his gun to show that he wasn't playing.
    We made vocal apologies and moved on up the road, but I was PISSED. After filming Amoeba and FTC, we hopped into a cab - and drove past the guy 'with the gun'. As we sped past, I checked no-one else was near him, opened the window and threw a big custard-filled cake into his face. I hit him full-on and drenched him in fondant.

    I'm not sure if I've ever felt such a sense of satisfaction; the big scary gunman covered in custard and pastry. He looked like a clown.


    that is hilarious.

    man I need to start rolling around more often with custard-filled cakes.

  • MondeyanoMondeyano Reykjavik 863 Posts
    Let karma do its work.

  • meatyogremeatyogre 2,080 Posts
    Let karma do its work. With a creamy custard filling!

  • i woulda helped you out man! my counterpunch is deadly.

    I don't know why but I just got a vision of Guile from Street Fighter II walking down Mission street protecting men with glasses

    TBS:[/b] Out of curiousity, were you more stunned than mad? I got hit at a pizza place up the street from my old job and it took something like 2 full minutes before it actually registered that some guy punched me, I just kind of stood there in a daze for a bit. I had a friend who unfortunately went through a similar experience and said the same thing. Instinct is a weird twisted (and possibly broken) thing sometimes

  • DjArcadianDjArcadian 3,630 Posts
    Mission is not to be messed with. There's some dude there that sells coke and is pretty blatant about it. Totally agro dude. He'll yell it out across the intersection. Late at night you have all the junkie sellers lined up around there and this guy comes up to me and actually escorts me through this mess of people and then asks if I want any (no) and then asks for $2.

    I had a friend that got mugged around there too not long ago.

  • CaMKIIaCaMKIIa 269 Posts
    THESE STORIES ARE NOT COOL BECAUSE I AM MOVING TO THE MISSION THIS WEEK. LOCK THREAD PLZ.

  • DjArcadianDjArcadian 3,630 Posts
    THESE STORIES ARE NOT COOL BECAUSE I AM MOVING TO THE MISSION THIS WEEK. LOCK THREAD PLZ.

    It's not all bad. I wouldn't live anywhere between 16th and maybe 19th or 20th? Around 24th street it gets a lot better.

    16th and Mission is the real deal during late hours though.

  • I've been living in the SF for a long time now. The mission for about four years. Yeah, I know shit is dangerous and that's why I said it could have been much worse. It would have been much worse if I was carrying a weapon and was stupid enough to use it. It was hardly a punch. There's no bruise and it didn't even swell up. Like, Guzzo/Dab said, it was all about the surprise. I didn't know what the fuck to do. I went to get my glasses and then said, "What the fuck? What'd I do?" He laughed said something like "That fool got chin checked" while I walked away. I then decided to go the bar across the street and ask to use the phone to call the cops. I was full of adrenalin and the dudes were down the street, so I flagged a cab to take me five blocks to my home. It's the idea that people can just go around socking people in the jaw for fun. What fucks.

    I'd like to think Karma will come back and pop the dude in his ass, but I think I'm too cynical. Besides, what did I do to deserve this Karma?

    Thanks for the positive words.

  • tjamestjames 156 Posts
    I think that worse than anything is growing up and realizing that the stuff you did when you were young/ when you were immature/ when you were a dirt-bag piece of sh!t, was wrong and you have to live with it. I still feel shame for stealin' yo-yo's when I was 12, and that's nothing like jumping people in the street. My only worry is that people like this never realize their wrongs and live the rest of their life out as the victim...

    tjames

  • THESE STORIES ARE NOT COOL BECAUSE I AM MOVING TO THE MISSION THIS WEEK. LOCK THREAD PLZ.

    It's not all bad. I wouldn't live anywhere between 16th and maybe 19th or 20th? Around 24th street it gets a lot better.

    16th and Mission is the real deal during late hours though.

    I was around Valencia and Mission. Past Cesar Chavez. Not as many junkies out in these parts. More gangs. I don't know if they were even gangsters though. Who knows. It happened quickly. Stupid thugs. [Cliche]Shit could happen anywhere[/Cliche]

    I've been living in SF for close to 10 years and this is the first problem I've ever had. In fact this is the first problem I've ever had anywhere since maybe high school.

  • Sorry To hear that K. yeah cats have been running around this weekend whyling out and shit, the Carnaval always has some sketchy by-products. I seen a dudes car get destroyed with bats at 19th and mission mid afternoon a few years back, got the hell out of there when the Easton wielders started striding in my direction...

  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    yall need to stop disrespecting the mission. 16th/mission, shotwell, kapp, valencia, shit is hella soft in 2006, yall would hate to see it back in 93 when I moved there uhhhhhhh straight tourests to the 'sco blud hella sensitive whence falling out the elbo room they had to put a police station there and hella coars patrolling but bluds I digress


    seriously though that's fucked up, personally I fight back whenever I am hit I don't care if there's five or fifteen dudes because next time they see you they will respect you at least a lil bit whereas if you do not you are seen as a moark and you will have to run every time.

  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts
    seriously though that's fucked up, personally I fight back whenever I am hit I don't care if there's five or fifteen dudes because next time they see you they will respect you at least a lil bit whereas if you do not you are seen as a moark and you will have to run every time.

    where's the "street smart" graemlin?

  • I think oakwood[/b] got cleaned up in like '89 dude.

  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    I think oakwood[/b] got cleaned up in like '89 dude.


    uhhh blud not with you pissing in the driveways!!

  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts
    I've had similar things happen to me and man it sucks. If I'd been mouthing of to someone in a club or whatever, then fine, but when some random unpredictable shit happens out the blue it feels so unfair. Why me of all people? Like people have said, it's important to remember that a) It could have been worse. Random violent shit kill people all the time, and b) Your life is way better than theirs. Seriously.

  • noznoz 3,625 Posts
    poindexter

  • bluesnagbluesnag 1,285 Posts
    THESE STORIES ARE NOT COOL BECAUSE I AM MOVING TO THE MISSION THIS WEEK. LOCK THREAD PLZ.

    It's not all bad. I wouldn't live anywhere between 16th and maybe 19th or 20th? Around 24th street it gets a lot better.

    16th and Mission is the real deal during late hours though.

    yeah, i used to hang out around 22nd to 24th street all the time and i never had a problem. and i wear glasses too!


  • seriously though that's fucked up, personally I fight back whenever I am hit I don't care if there's five or fifteen dudes because next time they see you they will respect you at least a lil bit whereas if you do not you are seen as a moark and you will have to run every time.

    Well, fuck it. I'm not changing. I don't fight. It didn't even cross my mind.

    Them sound like prison rules.

  • CaMKIIaCaMKIIa 269 Posts
    THESE STORIES ARE NOT COOL BECAUSE I AM MOVING TO THE MISSION THIS WEEK. LOCK THREAD PLZ.

    It's not all bad. I wouldn't live anywhere between 16th and maybe 19th or 20th? Around 24th street it gets a lot better.

    16th and Mission is the real deal during late hours though.

    yeah, i used to hang out around 22nd to 24th street all the time and i never had a problem. and i wear glasses too!

    good to know. my place is between 21st and 22nd. and i wear glasses as well, but my new job (read: reason why i am moving to san francisco) offers a great vision plan which will enable me to get contacts, therefore making me look like less of a moark? maybe.

    in all seriousness tho, i've lived in worse places than the mission (and gotten my fair share of random thugs trying punk me...i lived in paris for quite a while, and it might seem like a nice romantic place to visit, but once you hit the outer areas/banlieue, it ain't that fun).

    to the original poster, i guess all i can state (or echo previous posts) is that these idiots *will* get theirs, due to their arrogant behavior...i don't believe in karma, but i believe in probability. i mean, this is a country where people have the *right* to bear firearms, and it's only a matter of time before they clock some racist-ass, pistol-packing redneck from out of town who will unfortunately demonstrate the definition of "keeping it real". it' is a real shame when people don't realize the impact of their behavior, but when you act like an idiot it's "you live and learn", so to speak. maybe start taking self-defense classes for possible future encounters?

  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    Has anyone seen this Showtime/Spike Lee Baysploitation flick?



    There's this one scene where the white kid whose family moves to Hunter's Point gets punched in the face while sitting on his stoop, ostensibly for no reason, but upon closer examination it becomes apparent that he is listening to some Hieroglyphics bullschitt really loud on his headphones.

    And do ya'll really call it "Sucker Free City"?

  • djdepositdjdeposit 224 Posts
    Let karma do its work. I've been in similar situations. Someday they'll step to someone who's carrying a knife or a gun, and then they'll piss themselves.

    That's sound advice!

    Really though, People in this world need to get what's coming to them sooner then later.

    Imagine one day you had a bad day like MD in Falling down and these clowns stepped to you.
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