Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014)

Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by gumby on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:03AM (#15447192)

I find this amazing -- the half a dozen or so bar fights to which I've been "witness" (yes, I had a dissolute period in my life) were over pretty much immediately: one swing, perhaps a response, and that was it.

The reason I put the word "witness" in quotation marks is that in only one case did I see the first swing being taken. Otherwise there was commotion and I'd turn and see someone on the floor, or two guys grabbing each other and bystanders pulling them apart.

Note I said "amazing" not "implausible" -- my experience is only mine, and I am sure there are those who lead a more exciting life than mine.

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Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:48AM (#15447361)

The article fully supports your characterization of bar fights? You seem to think that its opinion differs from yours.

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Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by gumby on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:37AM (#15448427)

It does seem that way from my reading: “Typically, the loser of a bar fight who later initiates a lawsuit has been beaten up pretty badly” and fights lasting “less than 60 seconds” (I’m thinking less than 10 seconds).

But the author is talking about ones that lead to litigation, presumably a minority but one which is by definition self-selecting.

I also hadn’t considered people trying to get back in after being chucked out (which does seem to happen in a surprising number of cases) as “bar fight” though I can imagine that also leads to litigation and is all the same from the insurance company’s POV.

In any case these days I tend to drink in a higher class of joint (excepting Antonio’s in Palo Alto where I still go)

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