MM> Puke away. I worked these areas daily, the wino knife fights, the
MM> total irresponsibility and higher crime rate and extremely high
MM> disregard for societies norms like paying for what you wanr and
MM> hiding at the priests frock  at the mission. and you blame police.
Maybe in urban areas, where drugs are a major factor. I've been 
fortunate as to where I'd never seen any peer to peer combat occur. 
Usually the only problems were from "mamma's good little boy" getting 
drunked-up and "jacking the winos" is where the problems came in. 
Woke up one night when a well dressed crazy was tossing water on the 
burnt out veterans... I sat up in my sleeping bag and asked "just what 
the hell is your problem?" The response was I was attacked with a 
Bartender's Billy. The jerk made a few mistakes... 1, I wasn't a wino. 
2, I'm a pretty good sized boy. 3, I knew how to take care of myself. 
He was also very lucky I've only got one mean bone in my body which is 
buried somewhere deep inside and doesn't get much leverage. I had him 
pinned to the ground with his own club across his throat, both of my 
hands on either end of it and my full body weight across it. All I 
would have needed to do was snap my arms forward and lean into it.
Mike, you and society would probably have seen this as just one of 
those "wino fights." Written it off, and hrumphed a bit, then turn to 
the next page of the newspaper or your report.
And, there's that word again... responsibility, oh look! A new 
word... "society's norms!!" Where do you get off thinking you have 
the right to force your belief's on someone. When did God appoint you 
as administrator of what is socially proper. Norms... if you call our 
society normal I want no part of it either.
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