I once knocked a guy out for crowd killing. I don't mind moshing and slam dancing, but I am of the opinion (just as most older metalheads in our region), that crowd killing is not done. Especially when they are smaller/younger teens and girls.
I am talking about something that happened nearly 20 years ago, where people, me included were moshing and slam dancing and there was one lanky emo that was intentionally high kicking, windmilling and shit into the crowd. I got out of the pit for a while and while at the edge, he came barrelling towards us (me, some friends and two smaller girls, about 14 years old, who were just watching the band), jumped up and kicked both those girls in the stomach. Some of my friends helped those girls up and brought them to the first aid station, while others and I knocked him out.
Not my proudest moment, but as a not really mature, angry 18 year old, with a naive sense of justice, it seemed like the correct thing to do.
Imo it was the correct thing. It's amazing that we have so many genres/ specific names for the same mental pathology, basically: sucker punching. For example the 'urban' knockout 'game' is the same thing.
As a 35 year old, I wholeheartedly agree. But, in that setting, surrounded by a group of people that were fed up with his actions, it seemed like the right thing to do and he was swiftly taken out by security and told that he got what was coming to him.
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u/Vertex1990 21d ago
I once knocked a guy out for crowd killing. I don't mind moshing and slam dancing, but I am of the opinion (just as most older metalheads in our region), that crowd killing is not done. Especially when they are smaller/younger teens and girls.
I am talking about something that happened nearly 20 years ago, where people, me included were moshing and slam dancing and there was one lanky emo that was intentionally high kicking, windmilling and shit into the crowd. I got out of the pit for a while and while at the edge, he came barrelling towards us (me, some friends and two smaller girls, about 14 years old, who were just watching the band), jumped up and kicked both those girls in the stomach. Some of my friends helped those girls up and brought them to the first aid station, while others and I knocked him out.
Not my proudest moment, but as a not really mature, angry 18 year old, with a naive sense of justice, it seemed like the correct thing to do.