# Fight or Flight (Video Link Included) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994 "2004-10-25T04:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/21 "2004-10-26T14:33:45Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Could someone describe the video, or provide an alternate link? > > ebaumsworld is off limits here, and whatever you’re talking about sounds interesting. Angrily shouting, shirtless, gap toothed, street badass who is (IMO) clearly high on something, is spouting angry running “I’m the baddest ass there is” commentary (for the benefit of a video camera) on why this is _his_ corner and he can do anything he wants (reels off long list of drug selling activities), and no one can tell him anything. Works himself into a fever pitch, then then to demonstate his total mastery of his corner, bolts across the street and grabs a crowbar he had stashed under (what looks like) a transformer sitting in the median, and begins just whaling on this random little blue car sitting in traffic. Female driver is absolutley terrified, and tries to get away, but she’s blocked by the car in front of her . He circles her car and follows her as she ties to move her car out of the way, back and forth in the street, and smashes all her windows. She finally has a free lane and dashes out of his way. There is no warning whatsoever for her, he’s just instantly _there_ smashing her windows with a crowbar. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/22 "2004-10-26T14:35:20Z")
By the way I would have run him over. ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/23 "2004-10-26T14:43:56Z")
The video is a little dated (lots of talk about it from other forums I visit). The video is real and from a defunct “show” called Bum Fights. The clip is form Bum Fights 3 (the production company is gone, I believed they were sued). It happend in Las Vegas. Someone even posted the exact location. The video sparked a huge debate over whether or not it would have been legal to shoot/run over the guy. Apparently it is as long as it’s correctly stated as **trupa** mentions. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/24 "2004-10-26T14:44:20Z")
I’ll post the video [here temporarily](http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cpeek001/holdinitdown.wmv) for those blocked from the main site. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/25 "2004-10-26T14:51:46Z")
saw it. thanks, astro. thanks for the offer, World Eater. Nuts video. I imagine one could have gotten away with shooting that guy or running him down. Enough witnesses to a guy obviously acting threatening. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/26 "2004-10-26T15:04:27Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > saw it. > > thanks, astro. > > thanks for the offer, World Eater. > > Nuts video. > > I imagine one could have gotten away with shooting that guy or running him down. Enough witnesses to a guy obviously acting threatening. No prob. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/27 "2004-10-26T16:07:35Z")
> [@badmana](#): > > It happend in Las Vegas. Someone even posted the exact location. I don’t remember ever seeing an arch in Vegas - though there very well could be one, they have an Eiffel Tower and an Empire State building - nonetheless, I’m still inclined to believe it’s in St. Louis. ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/28 "2004-10-26T21:50:03Z")
The people who gave the exact address were from SomethingAwful. I can’t seach it but I’m sure some fellow SA members here can. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/29 "2004-10-26T22:59:58Z")
> [@badmana](#): > > The people who gave the exact address were from SomethingAwful. I can’t seach it but I’m sure some fellow SA members here can. I knew it looked familiar, go right out of the Riveria and down the strip in Vegas. At the end is a casino. Thats the corner ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994/30 "2004-10-26T23:03:37Z")
> [@MannyL](#): > > I knew it looked familiar, go right out of the Riveria and down the strip in Vegas. At the end is a casino. Thats the corner What’s the arch in the background? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fight-or-flight-video-link-included/270994.md?page=1)