What Is Wrong With People?

Hah! Love it! That's a movie title if I ever heard one.

Drat! You beat me to it! I thought the same thing when I saw the word, "pooligans!"

And, yes, my son was jumped over a dart game! The guy threatened to bring his whole motorcycle club to the "party." I always let my son fight his own battles but thought, in this case, he might could use some assistance. Well, all it took was a couple of stern phrases, using the right terminology, and the "unrecognized" biker club dispersed like roaches when the lights come on!
Over a $5 dart game...
 
My very first day on patrol after graduating the Police Academy in 1982 I'm walking my very first footpost in of all places, Times Square. After about 2 hours of doing nothing but talking to tourists and giving directions I'm wondering when my first call will come. A guy comes running over saying "there's a big fight in the pool room upstairs, I think they have guns and knives". I put it over the radio and since I mentioned guns and knives I got a lot of backup. We go upstairs into the poolroom, it turned out it was just an argument with a lot of cursing and pushing and shoving. My very first police call!! Funny, in my 21 year career I never had another call in a pool room ever again.
 
Tis the reason I don't frequent bars, pubs, saloons, what ever you would like to call them. I play pool at the pool hall. Usually when shit gets out of hand, there is alcohol, and lot of it, involved. I would have probably fit right in during my younger years, but now days, I just don't have any patience for folks that get drunk, and then get stupid. Of maybe it's the other way around. Their stupidity comes out after they have some drinks. The hall I frequent, you want to get banned for life, fight, your done.
 
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