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Here's a good question for the campfire. I'm sure it differs where you live. I was at the rod and gun club last night. I was sitting with my back to the room, and all of a sudden, two people landed on me, and I got punched in the shoulder. I thought for a second that someone tripped and stumbled into me. Two guys were fighting. I got up and grabbed one. While I had him, the other guy kept punching him. I didn't think that was sporting, so I let my guy go. Now people are grabbing the other guy, and yelling at me for letting mine go. They threw him outside into the snow while I talked to my guy. If you pull a guy off someone and that someone starts pounding on him, is it proper to let go of your guy. Are you in the wrong to hold him while another guy is beating on him? I forget.

proper etiquette is to jump in and have at it

At the places I go, I'm never presented with this question.

But your avatar looks like a friend of mine.

Steve

I have been in exactly 1 bar fight. UP - logger's bar. I don't remember much but going out the door quick with the 4 guys I came in with. (kicked people out when I was bouncin but not a brawl situation)

I would say - if you grab and can hold onto one, let him go and simply get out of the way. Too much police BS later if it comes to that.

Throw him back and try for a bigger one!

That's the way we do it up here.

Chuck em both out the door.

Does the one you have owe ya any money???

Go hit on his girlfriend while he gets his azzz kicked.

Sounds like the high school I teach at. Except they like to fight in front of crime stoppers so it will get broken up quickly..lol

PS: I don't break up fights there any more.. No matter what you do you are wrong. People love to second guess from the cheap seats.

I was a bartender for 20 years and our protocall was protect the women and call the cops.

Yeah? And who protected the women from the bartenders?

The guy you grab will always get whacked by the "ungrabbed" guy.

If the guy's not a friend, don't get in the middle, just hit on his girl as suggested above.

If the guy is a friend, always grab the other guy. At worst, your friend gets in a few before it breaks up.

Your friend will never forgive you for his getting his ass kicked by the other guy while you held him and "broke up the fight".

You did exactly right--heck, I would've punched the other guy a couple times to just get things back to even.....


Casey

I was a proffesional,I only lifted them by the breasts because it was the quickest way to get them out of danger.

I had a riot at one of the schools I taught at. A drug dealer gave a football player some LSD to sell, and he gave it away to all his friends. The dealer came in with his friends, and ball bats, and hockey sticks to get the kid. All the football players poured out the rooms and a riot ensued. The police came in and closed off my side of the school (400 kids total) and ordered us to go to the fight where we kept kids they pulled off from rejoining the fight. They had to turn their backs to them to pull the crowd apart and insisted we watch them. A girl threw a hot cup of coffee in one teacher's face. Another got punched in the face by a guy with a fist full of keys. I just stood there and told the kids I'd been waiting all year for a chance to get a hold of them (with a smile, of course) and they sat Indian style on the floor kind of like a little cheering section. There were over 40 arrests, and I lost about 30 students for two weeks.

I told him, he was a lot heavier than he looked when I picked him off the floor. He gave me one of those I ran out of Zoloft yesterday looks.

I guess that depends on the club rules, wouldn't it? Is this the same "club" at which you had the trailer hitch stolen from your truck? It sounds like anything goes. Not worth getting in the middle.

You don't really know the answer to your question unless you know who is right and who is wrong in the confrontation. Theoretically, forcing someone to be a punching bag doesn't sound right, but I could articulate circumstances where it may be the right thing to do.

Don't see too many fights... fighting is for kids. Men get a bit more serious if they get mad enough to fight, and the loser generally don't walk away

I was presented with a similar situation on New Year's Eve. Me and about 5 other friends decided to play football while intoxicated on my buddy's asphalt driveway (a story in and of itself). Anyway, two buddies essentially tackled each other, and the one tried biting the other on the nose and throwing punches. I pulled my friend who got bit away, with the other one chasing. I told the aggressor to stop and walk away, but he decided to rip my shirt off instead. So, I punched him the face and he hit the dirt. He got up again and started chasing me. He isn't exactly a small guy, about 5'9" 240lbs and benches over 400lbs. I told him to stay away but he wouldn't, at which point I threw him to the ground and punched him a few times. He cooled down after that and we kept on celebrating.

So, I guess pull the guys apart, and if you get hit you can go ahead and brawl, too.