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Trivial Pretexts for Violence....list them all

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We all know when and where violent acts happen. The newspapers are often very informative. What is often absent, however, is the 'why' of the violent acts.

Some pretexts are obvious and fairly predictable...

- you fv..ked my wife
- you owe big money to a local drug dealer

- you walked into a Brighton slum wearing a Palace shirt
- you are blasting your stereo at 4am

- starving prisoners fighting over the last slice of bread.
- Violence associated with robbery, wills, or other money motives.

- Rape and other sexual violence.
- working as a nightclub bouncer or Parking inspector.

- a scuffle amongst competitors doing any sport.

This thread is particularly seeking obscure, unpredictable and crazy pretexts for violence.....Real World examples - not fiction. To prove the point that often people get nailed and really didn't see it coming.
Please avoid Wars and big Mass political violence - for the purposes of this thread. Focus only on personal individual tiffs.


for openers

- Leon Trotsky made a bid for Leadership of the Bolshevik party
- A prisoner was murdered in Cork, 2015 in an argument over a TV remote control

- A bloke was murdered for looking like somebody who had jumped a queue at a Supermarket
- Being a gay woman on a London bus when a yoof-gang is nearby.

- Lee Rigby .....it was the uniform and/or the day-job that was used as the pretext.
- Serving Beef in your restaurant.

- Speaking Breton at a French primary school. In Brittany.
- Living next door to a nutter at a retirement home.

- Standing on a stage and cracking a few jokes.

- Momentarily blocking an aisle on a London train.

What others ? Includes Major violence or even a small slap on the wrist.


Man dies in Cork Prison after fight over TV remote control








 
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If you spoke in a foreign language to Eric Morcambe he would regularly reply with, "I'll smash yer face in". And he definitely over-reacted when Andre Previn pulled him up over his rendition of Grieg's Piano Concerto. Looking at someone can be enough sometimes. Then there's road rage. For me anyone who thinks they have a God-given right to reprimand people over the age of 16 deserve a punch in the face. Grammar snobs need head-butting. And anyone who walks across a TV screen during a game of football when one side is attacking or during the final furlong of a horse race should face the death penalty.
 
If you spoke in a foreign language to Eric Morcambe he would regularly reply with, "I'll smash yer face in". And he definitely over-reacted when Andre Previn pulled him up over his rendition of Grieg's Piano Concerto. Looking at someone can be enough sometimes. Then there's road rage. For me anyone who thinks they have a God-given right to reprimand people over the age of 16 deserve a punch in the face. Grammar snobs need head-butting. And anyone who walks across a TV screen during a game of football when one side is attacking or during the final furlong of a horse race should face the death penalty.
You need a couple of commas in that.
 
cars and their drivers. they think they're invincible in their speedy metal box.
Particularly with men, it becomes an extension of themselves. Plus, if things get tasty, you can always keep a few tricks in the boot or drivers door pocket.
Queue jumping, parking spaces, cutting people up, can all lead to violence and death at the roadside. Especially with those 'tooled' up for a rukus, because they know they drive like a c-unit and it's only a matter of time before they cause something.
 
mistaken identity.

many years ago (80s) was in a back street croydon pub with 2 mates.
started getting intense eyeball from a bunch of fellas.
After a while, one comes over and says to one of my friends '' arent you...(fred bloggs) ''
he was convinced & not in a happy way to see ' fred bloggs'
the others in his crew were getting more agitated too.
We stayed calm & just told them not, which was eventually accepted.
sounds minor but a major kicking was on the cards.
 
Some examples I've seen:

- to some cyclists, anyone who is perceived to interfere with or obstruct a cyclist lane/cyclist route.
- having a face which just begs to be slapped. I have a mate who has received two very nasty kickings over the years simply for looking smug. Not his fault; it's his face.
- queue jumping. The risk multiplies exponentially when in a pub near closing time situation.
- opening a broadsheet newspaper in someone's face on an underground train in rush hour.
- sartorial mismatches. Eg someone wearing a pinstripe suit in a pub which was not exactly Canary Wharf, giving it large. It is not the large which was the tipping point; it was the suit.
 

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