how many bar fights have you been in...?

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"bar fights"

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after 10 years locked up by time I was 22....I have lost count how many fights and violent situations I have been in...


I would tell you guys some stories of my hay days of just getting released and being a straight up madman....but you wouldnt believe me anyways


although I have been wanting to write my story....thousands of people over the years of tattooing....have told me I have inspired them and should write it all down....


im at the thought process now...what's the friggen point...no one cares about God...no one wants to hear the truth.

[Widewing]

no one cares about God...no one wants to hear the truth.

I do.... I know who you are now, and that's a great family guy and a gentleman.... What it is that changed you into what you've become is sure to be a great story.

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I do.... I know who you are now, and that's a great family guy and a gentleman.... What it is that changed you into what you've become is sure to be a great story.

 

what changed me...

simple....Love....as cliche as that sounds...I saw huge Blue eyes from a tiny little girl that I had created...first time I cried in a long time.




I appreciate the words.

[JunkyII]

Don't know how many all together. Broking up more then I've actually been in...have had 3 beer bottles smashed over my head...

Best one was in Korea, 10 off duty MPs thought they were "pretty much Infantry"...turned into a 8 on 10 brawl with lots of MPs feeling sorry for themselves afterwards.

[68ZooM]

I worked as a bouncer at the Firwood Tavern for about 4 years it was just a part time job ( family friend owned it)  we did have to break some heads at times, it was almost as wild as the movie road house but not quite.
Once I had to take a shotgun away from somebody cuz he wanted to go shoot the two people that just kicked his ass.

[zack1234]

I owned Ink in a fist fight once.

It was awesome.

We have made up and he agrees i am more awesome than awesome

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I owned Ink in a fist fight once.

It was awesome.

We have made up and he agrees i am more awesome than awesome

I think I said explicitly...LESS awesome.....


and you cheated.....I was sleeping at the time

[pipz]

   Horrible!

[Masherbrum]

Zero.   

[craz07]

what changed me...

simple....Love....as cliche as that sounds...I saw huge Blue eyes from a tiny little girl that I had created...first time I cried in a long time.




I appreciate the words.

I completely agree 100 percent (crying and all),  I was a madman before I had my daughter, now I'm more calm and don't have the awful anger and impulses that I used to have...  Now I'm just semi-angry part of the time when i'm not drinking 

[Dichotomy]

I do.... I know who you are now, and that's a great family guy and a gentleman.... What it is that changed you into what you've become is sure to be a great story.

As usual I agree with WW Ink.  You probably should write your story.  If it saves one person from winding up in the clink and dealing with the demon you've had to I'd say it's worth it. 

[Dichotomy]

I should really document those 6 years, it'd be a pretty good book. Lots of women, drugs, after hour parties...damn, I was really planning to save those brain cells for old age but alas, I spent them in my youth.

we should sit down and swap stories some day.

I got into the bar business quite by accident.  A friend of mine worked at one in the Ft Worth Stockyards and had been practically begging me to come check it out.  I finally did after riding a small bull so I could end my 'career' on a positive note (I'd gotten pretty banged up by one about a month before and decided to cut that silly stuff out).  So I'm walking up to the club and see my buddy standing there with another guy.

'That's him' my friend says
'Do you want a job?' other guys asks
'Sure' I laughed thinking it was a bit
'Good you're security take the front door'. 

I wound up learning how to DJ eventually and turned that into a pretty decent gig with Philip Morris for a couple of years before I had to settle down and be a dad.  I'd probably still be in the biz if it hadn't been for Squid coming along but that's no lifestyle for a parent that takes it seriously. 

How many bar fights have I been in?  Too many to count.  I've had a cracked jaw, broken ribs, broke my right hand more times than I can remember, I've been stabbed (fortunately not badly as he was incompetent fool that wound up blubbering on the floor before he got hauled off to jail), shot at twice, and so on.  I've also taken a couple of beatings.  That happens from time to time. 

The upside of all of that if you can call it one is that all 5' 9" and 155 lbs of me doesn't flinch when situations could get tense.  I much prefer diplomacy to physical altercations but I can handle myself if it comes to that. 

[gunnss]

I don't know, more than twelve, mostly in Germany in the Army.

One however was different, I am in the SCA, we were at a tournament in New Mexico in the 70's it was big, must have been thirty five of us in the list. At one point, about the second round, a bunch of us had at least an hour before our next fight, we loaded up in a pickup truck and drove down to the local cowboy bar in Tiejeras.

The expected happened and the bar erupted... It was fun, most of us were still armored up, except for helmets, I was hit hard in the solar plexus, right in the middle of my chest plate... the fight went on for a bit, then one of the SCA types yelled "We need to go! The next round starts in 20 minuets."

We disengaged and loaded up to go back. As we were going out the door the locals invited us back....

Kevin
(Thorgierr Gunnersson KSCA)
Or Gunnss

[HL117]

Worked in a college bar while I was a student my last 2 years, there were fights every weekend that needed breaking up, was fun, very few real violents, mostly drunk college kids, I am not BadA** or Huge, didn't really need to be, we had several bouncers, if someone was giving you grief or was Not going quietly a flock of white shirts showed up instantly to lay hands on, if guys went kicking and screaming they usually got skipped off the concrete on their way out or were tumbled down the stairs, we would let them back in after a few days if they promised to be good

Carbondale, IL _ American Tap and Gatsbys on the Strip

[craz07]

"skipped off the concrete" that has a familiar ring to it.. don't mess with bigger guys... lmao...