A failure to respect another man’s personal space led to violent repercussions for two men involved in this confrontation on the street.
The video doesn’t show what started the trouble here, though it’s claimed that the man in the blue jeans and jumper had initially arrived on the scene to find the two guys in the red tops leaning up against his bike.
The footage begins soon after, with the two men crowding the cyclist in a threatening manner.
The cyclist repeatedly warns them to back up, and don’t touch me, but they ignore him and continue to get way too close for comfort.
At that stage one of the men adopts a fighting stance and winds up as if he’s about to take a swing.
You gonna swing at me? the cyclist asks in disbelief and then takes the fight to his attacker, throwing out repeated right hooks, knocking the man onto his ass on the sidewalk.
The guy gets back to his feet again, and apparently hasn’t learned his lesson, as the two men move right back into the cyclist’s personal space again.
More warnings to back up are issued by the cyclist, in addition to informing them that, if you touch me, I hit you.
He’d be as well talking to a brick wall though as the pair just won’t listen, and he has to shove one away a couple of times when he gets too close.
Oddly, the man who’d earlier been knocked down then shoves his companion directly into the cyclist, who is greeted by a right hand in self defense that floors him.
He’s killing you, leave him alone! a bystander yells, but the warning comes to late for the other troublemaker who tries to go after the cyclist again, only to be caught with a clean straight right that knocks him old cold, leaving him spread-eagle on the sidewalk.
His companion struggles back to his feet, and remarkably he starts lumbering after the cyclist again.
Back up. I’m trying to get my bike! the cyclist pleads. I want you to back up so I can get my sh*t and leave.
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At last the man takes a step back and it seems as if the confrontation is finally winding down as the video ends.
As we always say, you should avoid getting into a street fight if you possibly can. Unfortunately the two men in this video didn’t heed that advice and continued to poke at the hornet’s nest until they got stung.
