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Had a crazy Friday night!

fishermanben
I, and a girl went with 3 other couples to see a band on Friday. It was in a small town with no police force about 20 miles from Champaign-Urbana. There were some bikers there. They were wearing "Armed Forces" colors, however I do not think they were associated with the United States Military(sarcasm). These were rough men.

As I was walking out, one of them looked at me, and I said "nice bike". He turned his bike off, got off of it, and said. "So what kind of bike do you have?" I said that I didn't have a bike. So he said, "Well what would make you think you're qualified to comment on mine?"

Then, 5-6 more bikers got behind him. I said "whoa, whoa. Hold on there guys. I'm not looking to start any trouble at all. I'm just going to leave." He looked at me again, and said something to the effect of "It's up to us now if, and how you leave."

I looked back, and I had two friends that could help--not near enough. I said to the group, "Hold on guys! If this man's got a problem with me that says he needs to beat the crap out of me that's fine. Everyone else back off." He smiled. Some other guy that was just standing there yelled, "That's a bunch of bullsh!!"

They proceeded to pummell him. The girl that I was with grabbed me, and said "get us out of here, Ben!"...so I did. I called the cops, and the bar before we left. As we were leaving, they were still beating the guy.

I don't think I did the right thing, but there was no way we could have taken these guys.[V]

Ben
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  • select-fire
    Bars and Guns don't mix.
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  • oldemagics
    quote:Originally posted by Fatstrat
    I rode w/Bikers for many years and I can say that in my experience, this is not the norm.
    The 1%'s will stomp the crud out of you IF you mess w/them. But I've never known anyone to take offense at a compliment on his bike.
    Sounds like "wanna-be" bikers to me.
    What part of the country was this in?

    gotta agree with ya on that, or something else was cookin
    never wore colors, but knew a lot as we were one of only two gas stations near the bike club when they had the big bashes.
    the first chop i ever rode belonged to a pagen, with a fork length of about eight feet!
    and as long as you didnt rat their club or start something they were all usually cool as hell
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  • ginmaster
    Good to see the update. Glad you didn't get hurt.
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  • fishkiller41
    That guy that you complimented MUST have mis-understood you,been totally HAMMERED,or jelous of your babe. I have NEVER seen ANY biker,1%'r or not,get pissed at a man complimenting his Bike.STRANGE!![V]


    JEff
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  • MrOrange
    I'm thinkin', based on the update, that the bikers probably thought you were jumping in on the doofus' victim's side.

    Regardless, that's a no-win situation. Even if you had been legally carrying and didn't have anything on your record but rescuing kittens and feeding the homeless, you'd surely end up having to explain to a judge why you were playing Super Cop.

    Heck, I'm guessing most departments tell their people that if they're in such a situation off-duty, to not jump in but back out and call the cavalry.

    About the only thing I would've done differently is that after calling the cops I would've hung around outside of the blast radius to give the officers my account after they calmed things down.



    P.S. I've also found that humor works better than insults!
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  • ENOS29
    Glad to see you found out about it Ben! Oh and by the way, Tolono has 6, ya SIX bars and prob as many town cops!
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  • cce1302
    Even without the full story, Ben, you did the right thing. You did your best to de-escalate a situation that was no fault of your own. It was the other guy (who turned out to have insulted somebody) that was responsible for turning them against him.
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  • bang250
    quote:Originally posted by ENOS29
    Glad to see you found out about it Ben! Oh and by the way, Tolono has 6, ya SIX bars and prob as many town cops!


    OOpps, I told him 4 last night on the phone. The other 2 must be on main street? Close to dead horse?

    Glad you got an update on what happened.
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  • ENOS29
    I forgot about the legion, 7. Yep by the horse.
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  • fishermanben
    damn, that's a lot of bars. what's the approximate population of that town, and how is it that we drove through there without me noticing any?

    don't answer that last question.[8)]

    Ben
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  • Fatstrat
    I figured there was more to the story.
    And even tho Bikers "colors" are a sacred thing to them, accidentally touching one wouldn't normally be a reason for a stompin. But rather a warning.
    My guess is the guy got mouthy after his warning.
    Funny side story. Just out of hig school, myself and 2 buddies rented a Houston town house apt. Our 1st times living on our own, this place was Party Central 7 nights a week.
    We had lived there about 2 weeks when one nite a heavily tatood, long bearded man in his underwear burst thru the back door and annouced.
    "If you people don't shut the * up, I'm going to come back and kill ALL OF YOU!"
    Most of our friends left immediately and we didn't make a sound above a whisper the rest of the night.
    The next day he came back. Turned out he lived next door. Worked on the off-shore oil rigs (2 weeks on-off) and was a Mongol.
    Turned out to be a VERY cool guy who became a good friend.
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  • bang250
    quote:Originally posted by fishermanben
    damn, that's a lot of bars. what's the approximate population of that town, and how is it that we drove through there without me noticing any?

    don't answer that last question.[8)]

    Ben


    I'll check the pop. sign next time I roll threw.
    If you came in from the south you had to pass 2 to get to the one your were at. Both right before the stop light. Most the others are on main street which was just around the corner from where you were. [:D][;)]
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