Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014)

Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by dogruck on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:51AM (#15447567)

I have personally never been in a bar fight in my life.

But, yes, bar fights still happen regularly.

That said, my experience is:

  1. They are somewhat cultural.  More common in some regions/bars/demographics

  2. They happen more frequently as the night/drinking deepens

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Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by dagw on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:22AM (#15448138)

But, yes, bar fights still happen regularly.

Where are you going to find regular bar fights? Is it more a US thing, a rural thing, a college town thing? Because despite having spent way too much time in bars in various parts of Europe, I've basically never seen anything escalate beyond shoving and shouting.

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Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by dogruck on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:54AM (#15448704)

My general view is bar fights are more common when there's not a perceived tendency of escalating into knife and gun fights. I don't have data to support it though.

I last saw a bar fight on the north shore of Kauai. I love Kauai, but locals have told me, "there's not much else to do at night other than drink and fight."

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Re:Lessons from Bar Fight Litigation (2014) by RobertoG on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:31AM (#15448402)

My personal observation is that it depends mainly on your culture (nationality?) relationship with drinking.

In some places, drinking is just something that do you do when you go out, in others, it seems like drinking is the goal of going out and they try to get drunk the faster the better.

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