BUM Fights ?!?

[Mouse]

Just curious to see if anyone has had the experience of witnessing a Bum fight? ok so i dont mean the ones that you have seen in clips that you can download i mean the real life ones.. because as it happened I just got to witness one and i must say .. although i do feel sorta bad for the bum , he shouldnt be kicking and spitting on people. This bum has been known to be particularly violent to people.. and he was sleeping right outside my work.. right under the window. In the mornings when I come in I nicley ask him to move and he spits.. so this time.. I locked the door and called the police.. it just so happens an off duty police officer was walking by and noticed him, he asked what was going on, offered to help him up...and the bum swung at him. Cutting his nostril with his monstrously long fingernails.. right then a police officer drove up, witnessed it.. ran towards the fight and attempted to arrest him, keep in mind before he was able to get there the off duty officer had done some serious damage to the bum's ribs and head while also disabling his punches by breaking three fingers. Now I do feel sorry for the bum, but he was drunk and scary...

[Kuyuk]

Haha. Poor bum.


K.

[Mouse]

umm i have pics

[Daniel]

The one that jumps right out of me is the time I saw a couple hobos fighting who was gonna sqeegee someones car at a Gas station. That was pretty funny.

[RichardCranium]

umm i have pics

Share them.

[Parkbandit]

umm i have pics

Post them or it never happened.

[ElanthianSiren]

In general, if you live, work, or spend any decent amount of time in most medium to large-scale cities, you're going to witness confrontation between homeless people and others, IMO. I've never had a problem with them personally, but I've seen them fight with each other and other college students, and my boyfriend had a problem with one living out of a busstop that he passed regularly on the way to the pharm.

-M

[Mouse]

This is the cop and the off duty cop trying to get the bum to let go of his blankets so they can get cuffs on him.. not to great of a pic since it was my camera phone i had to use

[Hulkein]

Hahahaha, that's awesome.

And I saw the same thing as Daniel, two bums got in an argument and started shoving eachother over who was going to clean some guys rims while he bought a cheesesteak.

[Tsa`ah]

College desensitized me to the plight of the professional bum. A family that just lost everything is one thing ... the people that just can't get it together and refuse to even stop a shelter for assistance is another.

I worked a myriad of jobs in college and any of them that involved throwing out food ... well I always just handed it to them instead of making them dive into a dumpster. Early on I was pretty loose with my loose change.

Granted, there were fewer and less professional/hard core homeless on and around the ISU and IL Wesleyan campuses. When my wife entered graduate school at the U of I and I took a training position ... that just changed everything.

My day was pretty routine, I'd catch the buss to the IMPY and walk to wherever I was assigned from there. 2 hours of free time for "lunch" would take me to Green St and the Union where I would meet the wife for 10 minutes before she went the opposite direction (away from the bums) for a lecture and send west on Green to grab some lunch and to blow 5 bucks at the newest thing ... an internet cafe. The 2.5 block walk took me past no less than 5 homeless that would pander for my change. If I gave it to the first guy I was racist because he was white and then next 3 were black ... and that always caused a confrontation between bums on 3 corners. If I passed up the first 4 and gave change to the last guy .... well that would cause me getting harassed on the way back from lunch. If I didn't give anyone anything, that would get you spit at or something thrown at you in the near future.

No matter what you did, bums on Green St would fight .... or you would get violated in some non-sexual manner. After a few months of it you just stopped giving a shit and found some way to let them know that if they spit, touched, pushed, or threw shit at you ... well it wouldn't be pretty for them in return.

I could never bring myself to hit any of them. Throwing anything at them (such as splashing them with water or whatever you were drinking) would have no effect on them as they were already filthy and covered in all kinds of crap. That left 2 options, some kind of defensive spray or a stun gun. I didn't want to potentially send one of these guys into cardiac arrest, nor did I want to give them chemical burns and potentially blind them. Gassing one of them with a weak pepper spray near the mouth ... well that granted you an eternal free pass down Green street while they were sober.

[Hulkein]

The best part about bums is that most of them are old, malnourished and wasting away so it's easy to kick the shit out of them. That's just a guess, I haven't ever fought one, but most of them look pretty weak when they fight with eachother.

[Sean of the Thread]

METH GIVES THEM POWA!

[Mouse]

The best part about bums is that most of them are old, malnourished and wasting away so it's easy to kick the shit out of them. That's just a guess, I haven't ever fought one, but most of them look pretty weak when they fight with eachother.


In this case I will have to disagree.. this bum rocked the off duty cop pretty good.. and still once the other officer arrived it took a while to get the nutbag under control.. but i will agree most are malnurished , old and wasting away.. this one must have been Super Bum !

[Stanley Burrell]

I am, for the most part, oblivious to bums. I think that in certain parts of the city, there is such a high frequency of these types of people, that they seem to just blend into the scenery in some sort of beautiful montage of bummery.

P.S. - There are some mad chill bums. There was this one dude off the Harlem River Drive who used to set up camp around the Crack is Wack on 127th and 2nd. He would periodically make these crazy monoliths out of just about anything classier than dirt. Other days, he would maintain a catatonic posture for the duration of my heading into school and then seeing him in the exact same transfixiation upon my return to home.

I know that in certain congested areas of Manhattan, I will dish out large enough sums of change and 1's (and cigarettes/nicotine gum when I used to smoke/chew them) that many times they'd cower away in a corner festering over their above average earnings.

My friends usually crack comments at me or plightfully explain how they're just going to just shoot and smoke up, but I guess it's a lot easier than telling them to wait while you go and buy them a sandwich and/or coffee.

[DeV]

I am, for the most part, oblivious to bums.
Agreed. At least I don't acknowledge them anymore due to the fact that its becoming somewhat of a skilled trade nowadays.

The worst is having a bum come up to your car while waiting in the drive-thru at a fast food joint. I think bums need to come together and write a manual on bum etiquette.

[AestheticDeath]

I live in a city thats small enough I don't really see too many homeless people. Most get moved off by the police I think. The worst I see normally is someone sitting under a bridge; or one at an intersection, and begging with a sign, normally sitting in a wheelchair.

One time, while fillin up at a gas station, I was accosted by a man on a bike, trying to pretend he had a fake prosthetic leg, but I could tell it was just a plastic cast type thing, so I told him to get lost.